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Diane Comeaux became the Administrator
of the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) in
June 2008. She is responsible for child protective and
welfare service delivery in rural Nevada, oversight of
urban county-operated child welfare services, children’s
mental health/behavioral health treatment and
residential services in urban Nevada, and statewide
juvenile justice services, including state-operated
training centers and youth parole. DCFS has an annual
operating budget of approximately $215 million with a
workforce of over 1,100 employees. Comeaux, who has
worked for the State of Nevada for more than 21 |
years, previously served as DCFS Deputy Administrator for Finance and
Administration for six years before being named Chief Financial Officer for
the Nevada Division of Health Care Financing and Policy in June 2007.
As DCFS Deputy Administrator, Diane was responsible for directing the
activities of the administrative and financial staff, including personnel
services, payroll, revenue collection, federal financial reporting,
budgeting and accounting, asset management, grants management, contract
administration and statistical analysis services, and information
management.
Diane began her career in state government as a Revenue Accounting Clerk at
the Department of Taxation before moving to the Department of
Administration’s Budget and Planning Division as a Management Analyst III.
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