A social worker with Department of Children, Youth, and Families or DCYF says she is recovering from an attack that was carried out by a foster youth in Puyallup last week.  Her family says what happened is not a fluke, but instead part of a systemic failure. The KING 5 Investigators first exposed the problem last year. Hard-to-place foster youth were staying the night in offices and hotels, with social workers claiming a lack of support from the state when it comes to after-hours foster care. Last week, Deidra Van Every, a supervisor in the adoption unit, presented a new claim before the DCYF oversight board. "I wish you could see my face right now because my face is the poster child for the retention issues that DCYF foster case, social workers are facing every day,” Van Every said. Appearing virtually, Van Every told the oversight board about what transpired one week ago. She said a 16-year-old, who was staying in a Puyallup hotel, turned his anger on her. "He punched her, kneed her, kicked her in the face, in the head, in her back, he dragged her by her hair, smashing her into the tables, and then he dragged her to the third-story window while yelling I am going to kill you,” said Kjersta Smith, Van Every’s sister. READ THE FULL STORY: https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/social-worker-reports-attack-puyallup/281-6e495825-227c-4f4d-8da2-e9d335f9d90e