May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - CR-EX. (MCKINNON) MAY 31, 2013
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And when you talk about coordination of services,
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the analogy I use, it's, it was a sports analogy, but
Winnipeg CFS, people working in the family enhancement
stream, are often called case managers --
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Right.
-- you know that term?
Yes.
And the analogy I use is that that's like the
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quarterback.
They call the huddle, they make the plays,
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they often hand off the ball, and they can hand it off to
community-based agencies but there's got to be someone in
charge, and that's the fundamental difference, I would
suggest, between a family enhancement model that's in a
child welfare agency and a family -- and services being
delivered outside the agency. Is that fair?
A It is fair. Those, those social workers in that
capacity have two roles. One is the case management or the
quarterback role in that, in the way, in, in your use of
the, the analogy; but secondly, they do, because of other
lower caseloads and so on, do provide direct, important
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direct services that are a part of that package.
not only case management but it is case work.
So it's
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MR. MCKINNON:
Okay. And that's, that's helpful.
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That's -- I appreciate your clarification on that point.
Those are my questions, Mr. Commissioner.
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