Next Steps
Mar. 14, 2012 | 12:45 PMReading Time: 2 minutes
Ruff asked the mother about possible family placement options for the baby. What about her father?
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Ruff asked the mother about possible family placement options for the baby. What about her father?
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“I’m going to need to ask you a lot of questions,” Ruff said stoically.
“Whatever I need to do to get him back.”
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On a recent workday, a new case came across Protective Services Worker Tom Ruff’s desk. A first-time mother’s newborn boy tested positive for meth at the hospital, and the mother admitted to using the drug during her pregnancy, according to the front-line social worker’s report.
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Recently, Ruff was involved in a case of a 5-year-old boy who was living in a motel room with his unemployed dad, another infant and that child’s father and girlfriend.
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Tom Ruff, a child protective services social worker, generally has 15 days after a first court hearing to figure out more facts, identify more family placement options for the child who was taken out of the home and help make a plan for the next steps.
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Tom Ruff is a child protective services social worker who works in the North Central Region’s Court Intervention unit. That means he typically gets involved in cases once a front-line social worker investigating a report to the County’s Child Abuse Hotline has already visited the home and found evidence of abuse or neglect, prompting the County or law enforcement to remove children to protect them.
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There are things that happen to children no one wants to imagine. But delving into child abuse and neglect is, of course, the daily work of the County’s child protective services workers.