Episode 24: Through the Eyes of an Investigator: Working to Protect Children
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Molly Evans knew working with kids was what made her heart beat with excitement and purpose. In college, she interned in a DCFS (Department of Children and Family Services) office and took a class in child welfare that solidified her goal of working with families and one-on-one with kids. After college, she worked at a private agency as a Family Enhancement worker, helping intact families get help with parenting skills, job searches, even housing, as well as supervised parent-child visits.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:07.0 | What I've really strived to do in all of my investigations and all the families that I work with, |
| 0:25.6 | even some that are very difficult, is to treat each and every person with respect. |
| 0:31.6 | And what I found is by doing that and truly explaining the process and truly explaining why I'm there and what I'm there to do |
| 0:39.4 | and what we need to be able to do to get this resolved, that has worked what's best for me. |
| 0:58.4 | Well, hello there. |
| 1:02.1 | I am Jamie Cabe and welcome back to The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 1:07.5 | You can find out more about today's episode by visiting the forgotten initiative.org slash S2E11. |
| 1:10.7 | That's for Season 2, Episode 11, which means we are just nearing the end of season 2 already. |
| 1:17.1 | Today I am talking with my friend Molly Evans. |
| 1:20.4 | Molly is an investigator with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, |
| 1:24.7 | also known as DCFS. |
| 1:27.4 | If you're in another state, this might be called |
| 1:29.5 | DHS or DHS or some other acronym, but it's all the same. It's the state foster care agency. |
| 1:37.7 | And so these are the folks who, when they hear a report of abuse or neglect, go into the homes |
| 1:43.9 | and investigate whether or not a child is safe. And if the |
| 1:48.4 | child isn't safe, ultimately they are taken into foster care. So we are going to talk to Molly |
| 1:53.2 | about her role as an investigator. And I'm really excited because so often these folks, these |
| 1:58.8 | men and women, get such a bad rap. We all have heard the horror stories |
| 2:04.0 | and we have many fears surrounding, okay, this person coming into my home and taking my child. |
| 2:09.0 | But I think what you're going to see today, you're going to hear the heart of Molly. |
| 2:12.6 | You're going to hear the goal of the state. And you're going to kind of understand a little bit |
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