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response we go out and we go out and try to see the child within a two-hour period and so that can be situations where we will go out, and with the police are, and go to the scene, and it could be where the police may bring in the children to our child protection center, and because if the parents incapacitated or in cars rated and you do not have a care giver that child is brought in and that requires a immediate response. the ten day response, might be a situation where there is not, as urgent of a need and the child is in not in danger but we need to go out and investigate and find out what is happening. so if it comes in and goes to the investigations, what the investigations does, is fails to make a series of decisions, and they go out and the interview the child and the parents, and the contact and get the information from the police, and what they are looking at is, whether we are going to open up, this case, and make it an active case for us and, there are two ....
clinic and the house, and the futures without violence, and glide, woman s shelter and i have a problem with the glide woman s shelter because she get a half a million dollars to run that organization over there. they don t donate it to anybody. and then we have the jewish and the children s services out of oakland and what are they doing here, and the justice and diversety center and they are all in line, to promote their agenda and i have nothing against promoting the decline in the violence towards the children. and but most of these directors make two or 300,000 a year doing it, i thank you for this time on this matter. thank you. i will exercise my discretion to provide a brief response which is for the people at home, you will hear from some of the women in particular, and can judge for yourselves but i can speak based on my experience that you will hear from beverly upton and cathy black and baxter and they are well known for being incredible champions and ad ....
in the home, one of the and some of the tools that we use, and i know that, there is concerns in the community, about the rolls of cps and the people have talked about the distrust of cps based on a lot of the history and the things that we do is support and work with the family and keep the families together and one of the tools that we use is called structured decision making and it is trying to differentiate what are the immediate safety threats verses what are the general risks. fl safety threats are dangers that are immediate and what we are concerned about is a danger that is unmitigated and the risk is anding like alcohol abuse or homelessness or different things and that is not a danger but it is a concern and? ing that we want to help the family with and we are not going to remove based on risk and we are going to move on a safety threat and i mentioned that it has to be an ununmitigated safety threats and there are threats that can be viet violence in the ho ....
testifying to not only the expertise and the dedication of the women that were mentioned but they are not just local leaders and expertise, we have national model problems here and so what we are discussing today, and in terms of what types of policies, and what types of practices, that we want to have implemented in san francisco, and under the command and the direction of our chief, we know that it will not only have impact here locally, when we all work together, collaborativively as a community and we know that we have the great local impact and we also know that it has incredible impact beyond san francisco. so, that is something that we should all be mindful of. and very quickly, i just want to also make known that i chaired the justice and courage oversight panel on domestic violence for the types of policy reforms, that we are discussing today, for the past 12 years, and just encouraged the panel has existed and focused on the san francisco response to the domes ....
a contract with the center and, we have advocate that we can conduct with that can go out with us on cases that can follow up with the families after we have done our investigation or during the investigation and that person works with us, and to look at a not just from the cps but from the community perspective and provide the community engagement. and so, in that process, which often involves like i said the rilely center, we make the decision of whether we are going to keep a case open, and whether we are going to have the child in the home and out of the home and part of the mandate is to have the least restrictive placement for children and so we try to keep the families together the least restrictive is with the parents and that is our goal, if the child can be safe and we want them to remain in the home, one of the and some of the tools that we use, and i know that, there is concerns in the community, about the rolls of cps and the people have talked about the ....