Show and youth study is completed Are A r e adoption tion procedures legal or legal extra-legal adequate They They are probably adequate except for the independent adoptions These are adoptive placements that are made outside outside outside out out- side of agencies At the present time these are investigated byan by byan byan an agency and a report made to the Uie District Court However if the home is found to be poor poor the adoption usually go o e s through anyway as there is no legal provision for the care of the children Thus the investigation investigation investigation gation loses its meaning The adoption law needs to make two provisions one for the care of the the- c the children second a and n d dmore more more important that any adoptive adoptive adoptive tive plans need to be approved either by an adoption agency or public welfare before the childs child is s placed 2 Is there adequate supervision supervision supervision sion of foster home care and placement nt of neglected and dependent dependent de- de pendent children needing such What about adequate suo su su- I care o of 01 day aay care or twenty four our hour day care centers The work load of oC supervisors is so great that it is difficult to o imagine that a very effective tive ive job could be done The county has grown tremendously in n the past five years but there still till remains only one c chi child h i l I d welfare worker Actually there are no facilities as such in Davis County for the care of oC destitute neglected or dependent depend- depend ent nt children About the o 0 only n I 1 y thing hing available is a bock of cells small inadequate and dirty for the placement nt of such children There are arc no care carev v c r centers in Davis County 3 Is adequate supervision being being be be- ing irig given to aid to to dependent children cases cases' under state welfare welfare welfare wel wel- fare in the int interest rest of of full development development development de de- of children There sho should ld be an increase in staff and a broadening of f the scope of financial needs needs' of children children children chil chil- dren p plus us more more fa facilities to meet special needs The staff at the present time is compe- compe tant tanto but not enough to do the job adequately 4 How effective are efforts of schools juvenile courts police police police po po- po- po lice and sheriffs' sheriffs offices in com com- batting juvenile All of these areas areas are terribly ter- ter terribly terribly ter ter- und under st r-st The juvenile juven ile lIe court has only one probation probation probation proba proba- tion officer to cover the entire c county o 0 u r n t y The recommended standard for school social workers workers work work- ers ens is one per 2000 students Davis avis County has lias nearly students and three school workers workers work work- ers making the ration 1 to In addition to this there is lack of resources to meet special needs which must be met if juvenile delinquency Is to be prevented The problem is like trying to build a dam danl out of toothpicks before the f flood l I o 0 o 0 d comes More government and private I resources are a must There is also lack of coordination coordination of of the various agencies which provide s services which might be utilized to combat juvenile delinquency Although the he past few years have shown some progress In the direction j of better coordination the conSee conSee con- con conSee I See GOVERNMENT on pago 7 1 I I II |