QUESTION
Why does having more intake sites not equate to less time spent for family placements?
1:06:49
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The administrator explains that having more intake sites does not necessarily reduce the time spent for family placements in the shelter system.
- Intake involves collecting a lot of information from families.
- Staff also have to find available placements, which is competitive.
- They want to ensure families do not spend excessive hours waiting for placement.
- A feasibility study will be conducted to assess this further.
Diana I. Ayala
1:06:49
Because I I agree with councilmember on you know, it's very difficult, and I I don't understand why I'm not understanding how having more sites equates to more time spent.
Joslyn Carter
1:07:03
So can I Yeah?
1:07:04
Give you some background on that.
1:07:07
One of the things is what what we found kind of what happened.
1:07:13
So intake, there's a lot of information that needs to happen.
1:07:18
It is also trying to find places and this competition for that also.
1:07:23
And so we wanna make sure that a information is shared the same.
1:07:27
But b, we also need to make sure that if we need to find spaces that would happen, for the families to go to.
1:07:33
So for us, it is not something that we wanna be able to have families spend so many more hours waiting for placement.
1:07:42
That's something that we have to really look at and think through.
1:07:45
So that's not, you know, top of my interest at this point.
1:07:48
So once we do a feasibility they will come back for that information.
Diana I. Ayala
1:07:51
Okay.
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