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Supervisors direct staff to form community child-welfare roundtable, favor hybrid approach
Summary
The Santa Clara County Children, Seniors and Families Committee on Feb. 27 directed staff to establish an administrative child-welfare community roundtable and to return with a plan that explores later integration with the Child Abuse Prevention Council.
The Santa Clara County Children, Seniors and Families Committee on Feb. 27 directed county staff to pursue creation of an administratively run child-welfare community roundtable and to return to the committee with a refined recommendation that explores integrating that roundtable with the Child Abuse Prevention Council.
The committee’s discussion followed a presentation by Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) staff of three options for creating a community forum: (1) designate the existing Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC) for the role, (2) form a new 15–20 member administrative roundtable of community-based and DFCS affinity groups, or (3) repurpose DFCS’s quarterly community forum of roughly 200 participants. DFCS described tradeoffs for each…
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