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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THE COMMISSIONER: Oh, at the -- okay.
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MS. WALSH:
Sharon, tell us about your centre,
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what it provides, who uses it, what kind of staff you have
and the interaction between the users and your centre with
Child and Family Services.
THE CLERK: (Inaudible).
MS. TAYLOR: Pull it away? Okay. That's good?
Well, we're a family resource centre located in
the West Broadway area, which is in the Langside, Furby,
Sherbrook area, catchment area that we work in.
As a family resource centre, we have a preschool,
we have -- and in that preschool we'll have respite where
parents can be off site, a limited number of parents can be
off site, but they can also, the majority of our parents
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are on site.
We offer parenting classes, which we offer
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one-in-one parenting.
We offer Triple "P", we offer
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Nobody's Perfect, we offer attachment parenting classes, we
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operate parenting classes all year round.
We do prenatal
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and postnatal classes.
We have health services which
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involves having a doctor come once a week, and we have a
health educator that will do various workshops on current
issues that the families might be talking about, about
immunization, various things, diabetes, whatever the
families sort of express to us that they would need.
We also cover and assist parents with their basic
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