REMARKS
Provision of concrete resources in ACS preventative services
1:23:03
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48 sec
Deputy Commissioner Luisa Linares addresses the provision of concrete resources in ACS preventative services. She acknowledges differences among providers but highlights efforts to provide essential items to families.
- ACS has a team dedicated to providing beds, cribs, and other concrete resources
- Providers can request beds, cribs, and extermination services for families
- Linares notes that in the last three months, there were about 600 requests for beds and cribs
- She recognizes the need to improve communication about available resources to all providers
Luisa Linares
1:23:03
I think that when it comes to concrete resources, I agree that we have some differences in how providers are addressing some of those issues.
1:23:14
We do have within the division of prevention services, a team that's dedicated to providing beds and cribs, as the commissioner said earlier, for the child protection staff.
1:23:25
That is also true when a family is actively receiving prevention services.
1:23:31
We can have, if the providers can do beds, cribs, extermination services.
1:23:37
In fact, in the last 3 months, we had about 600 requests for beds and cribs.
1:23:42
So, perhaps we need to do a better job of getting the provider this information out to all of the providers across.
