Premier Biotech Presents Solutions
to Support DCFS Agencies
We understand the mission of the Department of Child and Family Services and aim to provide new ways to better navigate the system for recovering families.
Learn How Oral Fluid Testing is Helping DCFS Agencies
Drug testing plays an integral role in The Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) agencies’ ability to successfully ensure the safety of children.
This includes child protection services, out-of-home care, finding new and permanent homes for children, child support, food assistance programs, child care services, and children's mental health services.
DCFS shares a goal of keeping children safe by finding new, promising ways to strengthen and support families in need. Premier Biotech understands and supports the agencies’ dedication to ensuring safety for children and families.
Trouble with Recurring Challenges
Challenges reported across a number of DCFS agencies include coordination issues with collection sites that are operating with reduced hours and collections that take place on nights or weekends, limiting the ability to drug test as needed. Most crucially, the financial impact caused from working with collection sites can cripple the agency’s allocation of funds.
From dealing with busy schedules for collection site coordination, to waiting days for delayed results, the limitations of collection site hours and accessibility due to donors’ reliance on public transit top the list of setbacks with collection sites to conduct traditional urine drug screening for DCFS to overcome.
The negative impact of collection site coordination also affects donors in a way that may add unnecessary stress to their livelihood. From finding time to take off work to ensuring they have a method of transportation to get to the testing site, these cumulative burdens only add to the difficulty of DCFS families dealing with collection sites.
Supporting Family Matters
When parents are experiencing personal times of trouble, or they are coming out of a temporary state of turmoil, they rely on the support of an agency that will help them along the way. Navigating tumultuous life events can be extremely challenging for parents experiencing the type of hardship that requires DCFS to step in and assist with a sound resolution.
Lessening the emotional toll on children is also critical to maintaining their health and well-being, which will directly affect their entire future and the overall quality of their lives.
Delayed drug test results can negatively impact the strength of a family’s well-being. In the event that children are separated from their parents, up to five days can be spent waiting for the results from a urine drug screen initiated at a collection site. That compounds the emotional toll for a child to endure, especially when the test comes back clear. All the time spent waiting, separated from a parent who was clean all along can be a cruel, unnecessary punishment for the family.
The collection site process for traditional urine drug testing also costs a considerable amount of time and money for agencies supporting the Department of Child and Family Services. Add in all the excess paperwork and tedious time it takes away from caseworkers’ ability to focus on family wellness.
A Sound Resolution
Premier Biotech has shown that it can address the recurring pain points of collection site coordination and associated financial impacts by using a simple workflow that can be done directly in-office, forgoing the need for collection sites.
Premier Biotech integrates both lab-based oral fluid testing and point-of-care screening via OralTox®, a rapid oral fluid drug screening device. Results from OralTox® are robust, with accuracy that exceeds 98%*. Donors can complete their oral fluid drug screen in-office, 100% observed, eliminating any extra coordination with collection sites.
Direct observation of oral fluid drug screening in-office also minimizes any potential risk of cheating that may take place behind closed doors during urine sample collections. Results from rapid testing are available in minutes, providing the opportunity to take immediate corrective action if needed. If an OralTox® screen shows a presumptive positive result, the case worker can ship the sample contained in the device into Premier Biotech Lab for confirmation testing for results in 2-3 days. The benefits of a rapid drug screen program provide a convenient, easy pathway to help families heal together.
By eliminating collection sites and the costs of laboratory testing for every sample collected, a workflow that uses OralTox® for drug screening provides considerable savings in time and money for agencies dedicated to supporting the Department of Child and Family Services.
This way, they can get back to focusing on what matters most - caring for the children and their families. Further, results from oral fluid-based drug testing represent recent drug use on a time scale of hours to a couple of days. This is opposed to urine-based testing that may reflect drug use up to weeks prior for some drugs.
DCFS provides economic support for eligible families working, looking for work, or attending school. We understand the agency is on a mission to help families pursue the opportunity to tap into their highest potential. The overarching goal of enriching families’ wellbeing is significantly time-sensitive. By incorporating a rapid drug screening program with OralTox®, these goals can be met with more streamlined workflows, and the bottlenecks from the use of collection sites can be eliminated.
Wholehearted Encouragement
We understand the mission of the Department of Child and Family Services and aim to provide new ways to better navigate the system for recovering families. For example, a much quicker drug screen process is available with Premier Biotech’s oral fluid testing options that offer effective solutions and remove the need for collection sites.
Parents who pass their drug test may no longer have to experience the pain of separation from their children as they await the result of their drug screen. This will only improve the situation for everyone involved, from children and parents to agencies and caseworkers dedicated to guiding and supporting the family’s solution.
Premier Biotech is revolutionizing the drug testing industry. We bring to market the future of drug screening with trusted and reliable oral fluid testing options, from lab-based drug testing to point-of-care rapid testing, that are seamlessly integrated with OralTox®®.
Premier Biotech provides advanced, top-of-the-line drug screening solutions for health & human services, criminal justice/corrections, and clinical programs.
Premier Biotech is dedicated to delivering innovative and comprehensive products, technology, and solutions to the market with a caring commitment to the health and well-being of all.
*Premier Biotech FDA 510(k) study 2018