May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
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B.D. MCKENZIE - CR-EX. (MCKINNON) MAY <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />
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explore with you is, is not an issue that Mr. Olson raised<br />
but one that I anticipate others may raise who give<br />
evidence after you, and, and so I'm going to ask you to<br />
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comment on this:<br />
If someone were to suggest to this<br />
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Commission that the funding for differential response or<br />
the funding for family enhancement be diverted to<br />
community-based organizations, essentially eliminated from<br />
the family service stream and moved over to a communitybased<br />
service organizations, would you think that would be<br />
a good idea or a bad idea?<br />
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I would say that that would not be a good idea<br />
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and I would say it would be a very, very -- underline those<br />
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words -- serious mistake.<br />
follows:<br />
And the reasons for that are as<br />
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First of all, since 2006 we've been concentrating<br />
in this province on building capacity within the Child and<br />
Family Service system to provide an alternate approach to<br />
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providing services.<br />
That's been six to seven years in<br />
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duration in terms of building that capacity.<br />
That<br />
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initiatives -- those initiatives would be lost of that<br />
transfer would occur.<br />
Secondly, the -- we do not have a well-developed<br />
child welfare NGO sector in this province as some other<br />
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jurisdictions do where that model exists.<br />
And what I mean<br />
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by that are quasi child welfare agencies with training and<br />
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