May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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families referred to child welfare are served through a
family enhancement stream of service.
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Okay.
So I think the model needs to be expanded.
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Q Needs to be expanded. Terms of -- forgetting
about the amount of money for a minute, $1300 or whatever
it is, is there a way or, or a way you can see that might
help sort of stretch, stretch the dollar further than it
might otherwise go? Way to use services to expand? And we
touched on it a bit talking about efficiencies, but is
there any other recommendations you can make in that
regard?
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Well, I think that we need to look carefully at
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our child welfare system to see whether we can reduce the,
what I refer to as the administrative burden that involves
child welfare workers spending over half their time
sometimes completing forms and following sort of
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procedures.
Procedures are important but, but whether the
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amount of time spent on those kinds of things can be
reduced so that more of that time could be used for
providing direct casework services to families I think is
one answer to making those dollars stretch further.
I think we can become somewhat more effective as
the current approach is in doing assessments and developing
a new practice approach that actually can be more efficient
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