Do they drug test family members before placing with them?

Too many blunts, not enough SW's. :arrow: Sad but true. While in training, (risk assessment training mind you) a Ohio approved trainer said , basically "WE DO NOT DISCERN RISK BASED ON THE LEGALITY OF A BEHAVIOR" In other words, being stoned is not the crime. Possession is the crime. Even if there is possession, CPS cares about the RISK TO THE CHILD of the behavior, NOT the legality of it. The idea is that in Ohio, CPS might discern (for lack of a better word) that a stoned parent may not pose a high enough risk to keep the child out of the home. What matters to them, they trained us ......is the parenting. (She alluded that this changed in the mid to late 1970's because SO many parents (and probably a few Foster Fams) were smoking weed. She hinted that back then they used smoking weed as a criteria, and the sytem became overwhelmed. :eyebrows: So, now the tide changed and drug addiction (remember alcohol is a drug) alone cannot be a determining factor unless it negatively effects parenting. If felony drug trafficers frequent the house, that's a different story.... P.S. I'm not saying that I agree, I'm just the messenger!