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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do but there's a lot more that the community can do.
so that's really what grounds our service philosophy.
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so all of our services have to have opportunity -- you
know, people need help, the services are there for them to
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access some of that help.
But every one of our services
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also needs to have the other side of it where, if people
want to give and if people want to participate in a
different way, not from the deficits model but from a
strengths model, that we provide that opportunity as well.
So we're challenged every day to find opportunities within
all of our services where people can give back and
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contribute.
And so we'll often -- that's why we have such
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a large volunteer base, and so -- because people want to
participate and give more than they want to receive the
emergency services type style.
So, so we try to create places and spaces where
people are comfortable, where they feel like they belong,
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where they feel like they actually own the place.
If you
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walk into any one of our centres you'll -- we have very few
staff in those centres; it's pretty much run by the
community and that's because the community just takes
ownership because they feel like they belong there, they
feel like the service and the place is theirs, and it is.
So, you know, we have similar to what the two
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ladies previous have talked about.
We have, you know, the
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