Councilmember Schulman questions data sharing between schools and prevention services

Okay, Councilmember Shulman, followed by Councilmember Gutierrez.

Thank you.

I have 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 as you may know, because of social service laws, we will need,

for prevention services, we need consent forms to get information about the education of the children.

So we don't have a data agreement where we can exchange data aggregately.

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

But unfortunately, because of service laws, we need a consent.

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

But we will continue this conversation and try to figure out how to do it in a way that obviously keep the confidentiality of the family safe.

Great.

Now, keep us informed.

And the other is that should these cuts go through for the preventive services, I would like a briefing on how that's going to affect particularly the...

The agency in my district.

Yes.

That's a yes?

Okay.

Yeah, of course.

Thank you very much.