Bay Area Regional Children’s Committee

June 21, 2013

Martinez, CA

Nick Honey / Sonoma
Lori Medina / Santa Clara
Valerie Earley / Contra Costa
Eric / Solano
Judy Yokel / Santa Cruz
Loc Nguyen / San Mateo
Barry Johnson / STEC
Linda Canan / Napa
Judith Lefler / Bay Area Academy
Ginger Pierce / Monterey
Paula Robertson / Marin

CWDA Review:

Group home support letters:

Santa Clara has a letter of support for a home T&T House of Champions that has moved their facility. The facility is actually in Alameda but the youth are not from there. Alameda has them on hold right now. Santa Clara will gather more information.

Alameda has one for a group home for AWOL youth. Michelle will gather more information. This can be denied based on the moratorium

SB39:

Santa Clara has had one, a 2 month old living with the parents in a single room of a home. Child had bruising around the eyes. The coroner has not yet reached a decision

The consensus of the group is that we wait for the coroner’s decision before reporting

Alameda has a dog mauling case of a six year old and is waiting for further information before reporting

Katie A Learning Collaborative: As part of the order, a collaborative must be pulled together to inform the implementation of Katie A. There was no delineation of what the learning collaborative would actually be. There is a statewide champion team at the CWDA level that will meet and the collaborative counties will meet in between these meetings. The learning collaborative will start concurrently with all counties.

Reminder to send readiness assessments to BAA so they can help with training needs. BAA has a power point on Katie A that Judith will send out to everyone.

BAERS:

BAERS’ minutes are always going to be delayed. They are currently looking at the attempted visits protocol as well as the intercounty ER protocol. The Policy committee was supposed to meet with BAERS to draft the ER protocol together. The group sent an inquiry to CWDA to see if they should be on the 2B workgroup. We have asked that they be directed back to our committee. They have been invited to our meeting in August.

A person will be sent to the 2B workgroup from Contra Costa

CACI hearings:

Marin County County Counsel has given the opinion that if a county pays a person to do these hearings without some sort of parameters (such as an outside team assigning them or their contract being time limited, there is a possibility that they will have an incentive to find in the county’s favor in these hearings. Marin is going to contract for one week only and then exclude the hearing officer for a period of one year.

No one else has been advised in this way

Director Retreat:

The date has had to change for Judith’s availability. The venue could be the Half Moon Bay lodge or the Beach House at Half Moon Bay. Robert is still looking at the possibilities in Monterey. We are also looking at Napa and Sonoma. The group is most interested in doing the retreat in Spring. The March date for BARCC would impact TAB.

AB12 & Probation

San Mateo is experiencing a move on the part of the children’s attorneys to close probation and then file under 300 for jurisdiction so the youth will get AB12 services from Social Services. They should only be filing on youth that cannot go home. The filing should be under 450.

IVE Applicants

San Mateo has been seeing applicants coming to interviews in an unprofessional manner. They are clearly trying to meet their commitment to apply without having to take the position. The suggestion is to call the school.

Does Diplomatic Immunity apply in child welfare? No one had an answer. This is a county counsel question.

Next Meeting August 21st

Location to be announced

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