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Adoption services , which include recruiting and screening adoptive parents and arranging and supervising adoptive placements. 328, 342 (2007); see also Saine v. Guardianship services , which are provided on behalf of adults adjudicated to be incompetent in cases where the clerk of superior court orders DSS to serve as guardian.

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The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. That’s what I used to do with some of the employees that actually supervised who are going for a promotion. They’ve had several interviews, and they just can’t land that job. So the workforce was still kind of feeling those effects.