Absolutely, resources need to go towards prevention and ongoing support, and changing the conditions of families that lead to child welfare involvement. I would say it's difficult or dangerous to make a correlation that involvement with child welfare is what leads to MMIWG or incarceration and all of the other things.
We know those outcomes are correlated with child welfare, but the causal relationship is not established. I would say that certainly prevention is important, as is supporting families to stay together or to be reunited. It's also very difficult for the child welfare system as it is currently constructed with respect to safety issues rather than the socio-economic, colonized conditions of the people being served.