May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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BY MR. OLSON:
Q That's, that's interesting. They're called Child
Wellbeing Centres?
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That's correct.
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Q Tell us a little bit about the screening. They
-- so a child is going to enter the school?
A Yes. What, what happens there is these, these
staff, small staff units have a reporting guide that is
established and they are trained in sort of being able to
determine when families reach a threshold requiring
referral to a child welfare agency, but they also have a
responsibility to provide soft hand-offs to community
agencies that would provide early intervention services to
families that might require those services prior to a
referral being necessary.
Q Okay. So I want to talk to you about early
intervention.
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Right.
That's different than child welfare services?
Yes.
What we normally think of where the agency gets
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involved, the child welfare agency; is that right?
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Well, there is areas of overlap. I would tend to
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define early intervention as more of a continuum. And if I
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can use a public health sort of analogy here:
If we have
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