Council Member Schulman Questions Data Sharing for Prevention Services

Okay, council member Shulman, followed by Councilmember Gutierrez.

Thank you.

I have two two questions.

One, are there currently any tools and data sharing agreements in place that make it easier for public school staff to understand student needs and support matching with prevention services?

Hi, thank you for that question.

So, um, as you may know, because of social service laws, we will need um for prevention services, we need uh consent forms to get information uh about the education of the children.

Um so we don't have a data agreement where we can exchange uh data aggregately.

However, if a provider is uh in need of specific information about a specific child, uh as long as they have a consent form, we are able to work with them and get them the information that they need.

Um but unfortunately, because of service laws, uh we we need a consent.

So there's been some conversations uh in turn to try to figure out how to do that, but great.

We will continue those conversation and try to figure out how to do it in a way that uh obviously keep the confidentiality of the family uh safe.

Great.

Now keep us informed.