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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 kno ....
Response we go out and we go out and try to see the child within a twohour 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 a ....
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 ....