May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.A. CYR - DR.EX. (WALSH) MAY 31, 2013
D.L. ROUSSIN - DR.EX. (WALSH)
S.E. TAYLOR - DR.EX. (WALSH)
D.M. KNOL - DR.EX. (WALSH)
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MS. WALSH: Okay. Let's start, then, with
Andrews Street Centre. What is that?
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MS. KNOL:
Andrews Street Family Centre is a
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family resource centre located in the north end of Winnipeg
in the William Whyte area.
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We have programs for all ages.
We have a, an
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aboriginal preschool program for 40 children in total, and
also work with the parents of those children. We also have
a Pritchard Place program, which is program for after
school and weekend and seven-day-a-week program for kids
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six to seventeen-year-old.
It's a drop-in program that is
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mostly unstructured but we do have some structured
programming there.
We have a parenting helping parents program,
which supports parents in the community with home visits.
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They help them at appointments.
They basically support
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parents wherever parents need support. It could be helping
them find some shoes, housing, those kind of things,
whatever they need to do. They also run parenting programs
all throughout the year, the year.
We also have a volunteer program so we have
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volunteers locally from the community.
We have over a
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hundred volunteers, actually, and they volunteer in all
areas of the centre. And this is all in one building. And
they volunteer, helping with different programs and
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