May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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Is community capacity-building a, one of the
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major ways to reduce this number?
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It's part of the answer, and, but you need to
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also probably take a look at sort of the way in which
reporting and referral and screening occur. So what I mean
by that, for example, the better your ability is to do
assessments and actually adequately screen those that do
need to be referred and those that need investigations,
then the better service -- the more appropriate services
are going to be -- are -- that are, that are going to be
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provided to families and children.
In other words, those
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that need referral will get referred and those that need
the more family support services will get those services.
They'll get the more appropriate services with respect to
need.
Q Okay. Now, are you talking about differential
response now?
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Differential response is part of that.
Right.
But what I'm also referring to is the assessment
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and screening process that occurs at the front end of
whether its your child welfare system or your expanded
Child and Family welfare system that might include other
agents in the community such as people in the education,
health sector and so on.
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