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In the home, one of the and some of the tools that we use, and i know that, there is concerns in the community, about the rolls of cps and the people have talked about the distrust of cps based on a lot of the history and the things that we do is support and work with the family and keep the Families Together and one of the tools that we use is called structured Decision Making and it is trying to differentiate what are the immediate safety threats verses what are the general risks. Fl safety threats are dangers that are immediate and what we are concerned about is a danger that is unmitigated...

With us on cases that can follow up with the families after we have done our investigation or during the investigation and that person works with us, and to look at a not just from the cps but from the Community Perspective and provide the community engagement. And so, in that process, which often involves like i said the rilely center, we make the decision of whether we are going to keep a case open, and whether we are going to have the child in the home and out of the home and part of the mandate is to have the least restrictive placement for children and so we try to keep the Families Toget...

Is a wise way to limit it and i think that for the folks and i understand the concern from the community, that the messaging that may go out is that this is creating a new situation under which a Police Officer is going to call cps and create that effect, but, i think under, again, sort of the child abuse neglect and reporting act, officers are mandatory reporters, and they must call the police and they must call cps according to this law that i looked at whenever there is a reasonable suspicious of neglect and that is pretty general and ambiguous language and i think that the intent of this n...

Placement for children and so we try to keep the Families Together the least restrictive is with the parents and that is our goal, if the child can be safe and we want them to remain in the home, one of the and some of the tools that we use, and i know that, there is concerns in the community, about the rolls of cps and the people have talked about the distrust of cps based on a lot of the history and the things that we do is support and work with the family and keep the Families Together and one of the tools that we use is called structured Decision Making and it is trying to differentiate wh...

Officers. And some very clear steps out in the field, as to under what circumstances the situations that they should contact cps and in fact, it is limiting the number of circumstances, and not in every case and i think back to my days as a public defend and her i look at the number of Police Reports in which the officers are called upon to exercise their individual discretion because there has not been that kind of guidance and so you will read the cases and i will banging my head against the wall and why didnt they call cps why did they call cps this did not involve the kids in any way and t...