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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kids back, and sometimes they're just struggling, you know,
and so they can come to us and we can figure out what it is
that's creating the stress, you know, before we get to that
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protection stage, right.
So sometimes people just need
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help with how are they going to drag five kids around to do
laundry, you know, or sometimes they just need
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transportation.
Sometimes they need someone just look
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after their kids so they can go grocery shopping.
you know, sometimes parents just need a break.
mean, there's all kinds of things that come up.
I mean,
Like, I
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MS. WALSH: And does your agency have capacity to
meet those kinds of needs?
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MS. ROUSSIN:
We try to as much as possible
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within our budgets. So again, you know, we try to --
whatever the family is coming in the door with, we try to
respond to that as best as we can with the resources we
have. We work, obviously, with our sister organizations as
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much as possible and we'll refer if we can.
not to turn anybody away as much as possible.
So we, we try
If we don't
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have it, then we try to figure out who's got it and how can
we get it.
MS. WALSH: Okay. And I'll come back to how you
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four, and then with others, collaborate.
One more
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question: Are you a mandated child welfare agency?
MS. ROUSSIN: We're a community-mandated ...
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