May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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The reason I'm highlighting that is because when
we, we looked at the case, the circumstances of Phoenix
Sinclair's case, in her short life, we saw that her file
was opened and closed many times.
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Right.
And there weren't necessarily service, services
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provided in her case.
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Right.
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Q Now, are you saying that the D.R. model,
differential response model, is meant to address that sort
of a situation? Is that ...
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It -- the D.R. model does, in fact, attempt to
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address that, at least in a partial way.
And because it
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intervenes earlier with these families that, in some cases,
might be closed because of volume and provides a range of
services that can help support these families, the intended
objective is that fewer of these families would be
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re-referred for investigation in the future.
And there's
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some evidence in evaluations, longer-term evaluations that
have been done of these kinds of programs that that does,
in fact, occur. The results are a little bit mixed in that
regard because you establish a fairly trustworthy working
relationship with some of these families and in some cases
they may voluntarily come back and ask for additional types
of assistance from the agencies. So --
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