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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feel welcome, and they need help, too, sometimes and just
someone to talk to is what they need sometimes to get them
going.
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MS. WALSH:
seeing are out there?
MS. KNOL:
And what kinds of needs are you
Anywhere -- we're not dealing with
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crisis but it's like we deal with crisis all the time. But
the needs come from not having a place to live, to having
fear that their children might be apprehended, or maybe
their child has been apprehended and they're coming to see
if we can help them with, you know, resources that they now
need to get parenting programs and those kinds of supports
for them to be able to be better parents and be able to get
their children back kind of thing, so ...
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MS. WALSH:
If there's a need that your centre
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can't meet, what do you do?
MS. KNOL: We, we have a network of agencies that
we work with in our community and we work very well with.
And so we kind of, whatever we don't service we know
another resource in the area that we trust that will treat
our parents, our families well, then we will refer them to
them. But a lot of the people like local stuff. They,
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they feel -- they build a relationship.
The families need
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to build a relationship with people in order to really tell
you what their life's about and to get the truth of what's
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