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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primarily an indigenous staff and we're somewhere in the
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neighborhood of a hundred and seventy-five.
summertime we have more summer students.
Fluctuates;
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THE COMMISSIONER: Hundred and twenty-five staff?
MS. ROUSSIN: A hundred and seventy-five.
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staff members?
THE COMMISSIONER:
A hundred and seventy-five
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MS. ROUSSIN: Yes. That doesn't include our
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volunteer base.
We have a very large volunteer base as
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well. And again, that would be full-time. We have a whole
bunch of casual and we have a whole bunch of foster
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parents.
I would say that we're the largest urban
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aboriginal organization in Winnipeg. We've been around for
29 years. We deliver over 50 different programs and
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services and resources.
sites throughout the city.
We operate out of 11 different
We do have one healing lodge
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out, out of town.
We deliver youth leadership mentorship
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programs, we have three resource centres very similar to
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Wolseley and to Andrews Street.
We have family violence
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programming, we recruit and train aboriginal foster
families to provide foster care for kids who are in care of
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CFS, both long term and short term foster families.
We
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have five group homes and each group home has a different
specialty and focus.
THE COMMISSIONER: Speak right into the mic, will
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