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  • Women's shelters hard-hit by state budget cuts Play Video

    January 4, 2013 6:04 PM

    BATON ROUGE - Last week Governor Jindal cut the Department of Children and Family Services by more than 20 percent. Now those cuts are trickling down to domestic violence shelters. "I felt like I had been kicked. It's such a devastating feeling," said Audrey Wascome, the interim director for... more »
  • State deploys DCFS team to NJ to help with Sandy

    November 13, 2012 3:37 PM

    BATON ROUGE - A team of three emergency responders from the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services has traveled to New Jersey to help officials there with their sheltering mission following Hurricane Sandy. The team will remain in New Jersey to provide technical support and advice as long as... more »
  • EBR DSNAP locations only open five days

    September 24, 2012 2:20 PM

    BATON ROUGE - People applying for disaster food aid in East Baton Rouge Parish have fewer days to do so than other parishes. According to the Department of Children and Family Services, DSNAP locations in the parish will only be open for five days this week. Other parishes have... more »
  • State investigating daycare for fraud Play Video

    November 29, 2011 6:24 PM

    BATON ROUGE - Children of the Future Daycare is two days away from losing its license, and under investigation by the Department of Children and Family Services for fraud. DCFS said it plans to revoke the license because there were too few workers present when children were there. At... more »
  • Baker daycare to be shut down

    November 4, 2011 5:17 PM

    BAKER - Ms. Gerry's After-School Service has until the end of the day Monday to appeal the state's decision to pull its license. The Department of Children and Family Services plans to shut the daycare down because it found licensing regulations like child-to-staff ratios broken repeatedly. In one... more »
  • Deadbeat parents on "Most Wanted" list

    September 1, 2011 5:48 PM

    BATON ROUGE- The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services has released its new "Most Wanted" list of deadbeat parents. It shows 18 people who owe a combined $945 thousand dollars in back child support payments. The posters include things like a picture, the last known address and how... more »
  • Search database naming child-support offenders up-and-running

    August 29, 2011 10:07 PM

    BATON ROUGE- Deadbeat parents in Louisiana owe more than $1 billion and the state wants you to help find them to pay that debt. The Department of Children and Family Services made it easier Monday to click through the names. Instead of downloading a special file, all the information... more »
  • State launches web service to find deadbeat parents

    August 29, 2011 5:18 PM

    BATON ROUGE - The Department of Children and Family Services launched a new website today to help find parents who owe child support. The site gives access to the 53,000 delinquet parents by first or last name, city, amount owed and parish where their court-ordered support was established. ... more »
  • BREC fights to keep after school programs

    August 25, 2010 7:03 PM

    Hundreds of families in the Baton Rouge area could be left without anywhere for their children to go after school. It comes after the Department of Children and Family Services ordered BREC to meet the same standards for licensed childcare centers. DCFS requires a license for any facility that keeps... more »

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