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Committee directs county to form community roundtable to advise child-welfare reforms
Summary
The Santa Clara County Children, Seniors and Families Committee voted Feb. 27 to pursue a community roundtable of stakeholders to advise child-welfare reform efforts, favoring a newly formed forum while continuing talks about folding the group into the existing Child Abuse Prevention Council.
On Feb. 27 the Santa Clara County Children, Seniors and Families Committee voted to receive a report from the Department of Family and Children Services and directed administration to pursue a community roundtable to consolidate stakeholder input on child-welfare reform, with a plan to return to the committee with refined recommendations.
Committee Chairperson Arenas and Vice Chairperson Young said the roundtable is intended to align separate, overlapping stakeholder efforts and to feed community feedback into the county's corrective action plan and strategic improvement plan. Chairperson Arenas said the primary deliverable she expects is "feedback coming in from those groups" to inform the county's reform tools.
DFCS presented three options for the roundtable: (1) designate the existing…
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