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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funding, I have three foundations and then I have
individual funders and I have private, anonymous donors.
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And it still isn't enough.
Like, you're just always
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cutting it and nobody really wants to pay for the
infrastructure.
So I don't know if I'm answering -- so we try to
do holistic services and we try to provide services
according to what the families tell us what they need.
When I first started, it felt like a good feel
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place that you would just do a parenting class.
As time
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went on, you realized that people's lives are very complex
and then how do we be able to assist and work with them in
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many ways.
And so we just keep expanding in areas, with a
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limited budget, to be able to provide whatever the families
need.
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MS. WALSH:
And in terms of interacting with
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child welfare services, do your clients have interaction
with the child welfare system?
MS. TAYLOR: Yes, they do.
MS. WALSH: And does your agency have any kind of
formal interaction with the system, child welfare?
MS. TAYLOR: I don't know if it's formal but they
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will refer people to us.
And sometimes it's very limited
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because we have to consider what the people that we're
serving want because they don't always trust Child and
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