Narrative #1: Competing priorities such as staff's attention to the mother's substance use while pregnant and subsequent work on father one's TPR influenced placement and TLC with father two. Staff also noted that the amount of required documentation on each case and an increase in her workload consumed her time and attention, further impacting her work on this specific case.

Narrative: #4: She also noted that there is a significant amount of documentation required on each case.  A checklist was developed based upon the additional documentation requirements established by the Department of Humans Services (i.e. BIA, ICWA, MIFPA, CMR new click cross report to law enforcement, Help Me Grow, SEY) .  This is further impacted by the constant changes in documentation that are required for investigations per DHS's guidelines. The number of documentation tasks further influenced father #2's child protection history and criminal history not being documented as it was difficult for staff to complete all of the required documentation on every case.

Narrative #4:
Competing caseload tasks further supported the CP history and criminal history not being documented as there was also a report that father #1 was a predatory offender which became a higher priority due to the allegation.  As a result of this, the worker was also managing the complexity of this case that required filing a required TPR.

Narrative #5: The CHIPS petition not indicating any knowledge of the father's sexual abuse maltreatment determination was influenced by the increased workload and the needs to more efficiently draft petitions as a result of a significant backlog of cases during this time.  This was impacted by staff leaving that unit (went from 16 to 5) as the positions were transferring from the agency to the county attorney's office.  This led to more work than could be managed.
