Jess Dannhauser
1:23:31
We continue to see strong results because the agencies continue to work on this even after a child's place.
1:23:37
They're talking to the child, they're searching for kin, and so we are we've gone from the low thirties to about forty four percent in care, forty five percent in care that are placed with close relatives or friends.
1:23:53
We did see an uptick.
1:23:55
Some of this has to do with the destitute child child children that we mentioned Yeah.
1:23:59
Earlier with council member Brewer.
1:24:02
That's from two sources, some that are new to the country or to the city.
1:24:06
There's also been some work that you know we've been doing with the runaway and homeless youth Yes.
1:24:10
And so we are trying to be responsive to young people who are coming in.
1:24:16
And so I think those two sources there's also you know, we talked earlier about cares and the questions around youth.
1:24:25
We wanna make sure everyone's connected to preventive services when appropriate.
1:24:29
We are finding placements for young people coming in in this situation.
1:24:35
Last year on any given day, we averaged about 74 young people at the Children's Center.
1:24:40
Today, we're at 64, and we're seeing kids move, get more placements right now.
1:24:45
We have a lower level of longer stayers than we typically do.
1:24:49
So the team is working really hard with providers you know, to make sure that the whole panoply of placement options is being used.
1:25:00
And I'm I'm proud that we have been able to continue to reduce the use of residential care even with this increase.
1:25:06
It's not a huge increase, but it's an important one that affected the kin numbers.
