May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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context.
Right.
-- it's important to sort of take that into
Sometimes a re-referral for investigation is a
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different thing than coming back and asking for some
helpful service that might be needed --
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Okay.
-- or referral to another agency.
In the model itself, when you're talking about
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the workers, the two different streams, is it -- first of
all, is, is, is the idea that there be two different kinds
of workers, one a differential response worker and one the
traditional sort of protection worker?
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Well, I think the model, in actual fact, can play
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out in different ways.
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Okay.
In larger settings you can create a separate unit
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where you would have a different unit providing those
family enhancement services and providing the child
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investigation or child protection services.
And in those
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cases, you know, the services tend to be somewhat separate.
When you're dealing with smaller communities, it
may be an individual worker within, within a unit rather
than a separate, a separate unit per se.
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Okay.
And, as I said before, some of these types of
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