May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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interest and knowledge of child welfare so that child
welfare becomes everybody's business in the community.
Q Right. So more of a community approach --
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That's right.
-- to child welfare.
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A That's right. And we have used an example of
some of the work that was done in west region as
approaching that kind of a model.
Q Okay. We're -- and we're going to talk about
west region a little bit because it's an interesting study
and results.
In terms of protecting children, what, what does
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a community-caring approach do?
I mean, because it's not
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the normal protection screen where you're doing a child
investigation, taking a child out of the home, that sort of
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thing, so what -- necessarily.
I mean, I know that's part
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of it, but how does a community caring approach protect
children?
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Well, it does include sort of the normal child
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protection sort of functions of a child welfare agency but
beyond that it involves the community in intervening
informally and, and trying to support children in ways that
they can, without the necessity of that, that occurring in,
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in all cases.
But certainly that formal investigation of
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abuse and maltreatment is, is still a part of what, what is
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