Story
The family has been opened numerous times over the years with FCCS (and 2 times specifically with me as their ongoing worker). Both parents have significant cognitive delays and struggle to understand how to manage their home and the medically diagnosed “super lice” that their family has had for over 9 years now. At one point, the family had a CSW, myself, and a parent mentor calling them daily to remind them to ALL do the lice treatments at the same time, clean the house, and clean all bedding/toys. We made some progress, but the lice are still present as parents struggle to follow the strict routine that is now needed to get rid of the lice. The parents were in a homeless shelter for about a year and a half and just got into housing. Their housing has plumbing issues that have caused mold, and the dad had to open up a wall to try to manage it. There is now just an open wall and no running water in that bathroom. The home had 9 people living in it, but one functional bathroom. Causing hygiene to be even more of a problem. The home has excessive trash and clutter. The parents shave the kids heads often but the home environment keeps the lice coming back. Parents report that the laundry is too much to do/keep up with in their tiny washer and dryer so they cannot wash everything at the same time when lice treatments are done. Due to the lice, the kids miss excessive amounts of school, which is why FCCS continues to become involved.