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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these things.
It's their life skills and they've gotten
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training on how to do the parenting programs, right, and we
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train wherever we can get training and stuff.
But they
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don't have degrees and stuff so they're not professional --
they're not social workers. So some -- I feel lot of times
a CFS worker feel that, you know, they're not, they don't
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have the wisdom or they -- what do they have to offer.
So
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they would prefer to seclude us. Like sometimes we wonder,
well, why didn't they phone us, this family's been coming
here for like four years working with us and you won't even
bother coming and talk to us about what's happening so we
can support them, continue to support them, you know, those
kind of things.
So, and we have had a few workers that we can
connect with and that get it and see the benefits of
working with us for the families, because that's our bottom
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line, is for the kids and parents.
So some of them work
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with us and will give us that information, and we can talk
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back and forth kind of thing.
But the, I'd say the
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majority of them tend to feel like we're not important
enough.
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MS. WALSH:
What's the impact of that on the
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people who use your centre?
MS. KNOL: It's very frustrating like because we,
we don't -- just because they don't want to have anything
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