RESOLUTION

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A CHANGE FROM FULL-TIME TEMPORARY SOCIAL WORK AIDE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO FULL-TIME PERMANENT SOCIAL WORKER 

WHEREAS, Social Services has within its Department a temporary social work aide position that has been funded as a part of three stable Federal grant allocations; and

WHEREAS, these stable Federal grant allocations are the Safe and Stable Families Grant, the Foster and Adoption Parent Training Grant, and the Day Care Initiative; and

WHEREAS, these grants are used to recruit, train and support mentors, foster and adoptive parents and registered child care providers; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Social Services has studied the models used to deliver services under the grants; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Social Services has found the scope and continuity of efforts to be lacking; and

           WHEREAS, over the past year, the skills of an aide were utilized to assist in all three grants; and

WHEREAS, it has become clear that the grants share commonalities that would benefit from upgrading the full-time temporary social work aide to full-time permanent social worker; now, therefore, be it

            RESOLVED by the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors this 17th day of June 2002, That the full-time temporary social work aide position within the Department of Social Services be upgraded to full-time permanent social worker, effective June 17, 2002.