“NO FOOD,” writes Supreme’s new Foundling worker on July 24. It is becoming clear that ACS made an error: Dasani’s family is in the wrong preventive program. Therapy is a mismatch. What they desperately need, the Foundling worker tells an ACS supervisor, is material help. The family cannot benefit from therapy without their “concrete needs met,” the caseworker says—things like “daycare, food supply and food stamps, early intervention, household needs and more.” On August 10, ACS agrees to transfer the family to a “general preventive program.”
