Yolo County supervisors have begun what one expert called a “remarkable” in-depth examination of the county’s child-welfare services program, with workshops, interviews, analysis and more that will continue well into the fall — all with the goal of determining how best to serve Yolo children at risk for abuse and neglect.
The Board of Supervisors has contracted with the Child Family Policy Institute of California to evaluate the county’s child-welfare system over the next several months, reporting back to the board regularly and holding four public workshops.
The institute’s executive director, Stuart Oppenheim, said Tuesday the approach is unique.
“We work with all 58 counties and we haven’t heard of a board taking this exceptional level of interest in what is a very complex system,” Oppenheim told county supervisors during a nearly three-hour workshop last week.
“(W)e as child-welfare professionals often regret that the community at large, the policy-makers, don’t really spend enough time to really look at what’s going on in the system and how they as a larger community can work together to make it the best system possible.
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