L.A. County’s Big First Step on a Long Path To Curb Maltreatment Deaths

February 23, 2015
The first sentence in a recent article in the Los Angeles Times about the decline in deaths of children in the care of the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) reads:

“Far fewer Los Angeles County children died because adults had neglected or abused them in 2014, leaving elected officials and experts encouraged - and pondering why.”