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A contract with the center and, we have advocate that we can conduct with that can go out 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 ...

And you have inclusion of the community rather than the exclusion of the community. Thank you. Any other Public Comments on this item . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] supervisor cohen. Thank you very much. Theres a couple of points they want to reiterate that seven of the 13 seats are to be occupied by members of the community. Seven. Thats more than a majority on the board on this task force. The task force isnt attempting to reinvent the wheel but built upon the efforts to do better coordination of the previous and existing efforts that the city is going through. This to ...

Response we go out and we go out and try to see the child within a twohour period and so that can be situations where we will go out, and with the police are, and go to the scene, and it could be where the police may bring in the children to our Child Protection center, and because if the parents incapacitated or in cars rated and you do not have a care giver that child is brought in and that requires a immediate response. The ten day response, might be a situation where there is not, as urgent of a need and the child is in not in danger but we need to go out and investigate and find out what ...

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...