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Parent partnership member urges caution on cuts, credits statewide supports for reunification
Summary
A parent partnership board member told commissioners her experience with homelessness, treatment courts and supportive services helped reunify her with her daughter and urged the commission to consider long-term impacts when trimming programs.
Alice Jeffrey, a member of the OCCY Parent Partnership Board, told the commission about her personal experience with homelessness, recovery and reunification during the meeting's presentation segment.
Jeffrey recounted giving birth in February 2022 while unhoused and uninsured and without prenatal care; her daughter was placed into foster care. She described a sequence of supports she said…
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