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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MS. WALSH:
Tell us about the interaction with
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Child and Family Services both of, on the part of the
agency itself and the people who use your services?
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MS. ROUSSIN:
Well, it would be in a number of
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ways, so we recruit and train aboriginal foster parents and
so our long term foster family program is the Ozosunon
program, so we're somewhere in the neighbourhood of like a
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hundred twenty beds there.
But, yeah, so we will sort of
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recruit and train and support aboriginal families to be
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foster parents for kids who are in the care of CFS.
We
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have a shorter term foster family program called the CLOUT
program, Community-Led Organizations United Together
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program.
And so that's the younger children and it's a
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short-term emergency-based foster placement program.
And
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again, recruit and train aboriginal foster families to, to
be those placements for kids.
Again, five group homes. And so all of our group
homes would be kids who are in the care of CFS. Typically,
mostly teenage, the teenagers, 18 and under. Our boys home
is, I think, 12, 12 years and up.
So we have our -- we have three community care
sites, resource centres and so families will walk in and
either they're already involved with CFS and so how can
they -- they'll sometimes need some advocacy to keep their
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kids.
Sometimes they will need to do things to get their
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