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Very interesting as I just saw the movie Concussion...Austin startup fights football concussions w/ brain scans http://bit.ly/1SVCXyj 

Terrell State Hospital, which is a state-run, inpatient psych facility.

BTW, Traylor was tapped for the top job when Kyle Janek resigned after contract scandals including a questionable deal to privatize...

Wow. I posted 291 tweets yesterday from the CPS meeting. I do this so you don't have to!!!

Thank you, auto correct, for changing "essentially" into "a sensually" in my text this morning. Thank you.

@andreeball https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/04/18/symptoms-of-a-shattered-foster-care-system/ …

OK folks, this wraps up my tweeting. I have some other work to do. Appreciate the follows!

MClure: These people are required to report risks to child.

Sen. Campbell essentially asks, Is there a risk of non-CPS workers failing to report stuff to preserve relationship with families/program?

McClure: families need intense support because don't know how to navigate system when kid removed, need support getting off drugs and such

That program is good because the people who visit families aren't with CPS, which might make families feel more comfortable, Patel said.

A home visiting program - Safe Care - works really well. It's for families with kids under 5, Patel says.

Dimple Patel, also from TexProtects, is a former caseworker. Now she's a policy analyst for this group, which is a child advocacy nonprofit

Caseworkers should be held accountable, she says, but for child safety outcomes, not paperwork failures.

Madeline McClure, executive director of TexProtects, says that thousands of kids are reabused.

It's very helpful to identify risk or recurrance of abuse/problems, she said. The data is already there. Just needs to be accessed.