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. ROUSSIN: Back up.
MS. CYR: -- CFS involvement. Women come in,
they're of the average age is about 26 years of age,
aboriginal women. Most women are treaty. Most women come
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in with CFS involvement.
Their children may be in care as
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voluntary surrender of guardianship, permanent wards.
We,
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by the time they even get to us, that a lot of them are
lead very violent lives and things are fairly complex so
they're coming in and then they can stay with us up to
three years, and we'll work with them, providing long-term
supports, programs, services around healing, so that would
include family violence prevention programs, gang
prevention programs, healing ceremonies; it's a variety of
services that are based on their needs. The big changes --
we are in the middle of a child death inquest ourselves,
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and have learned a lot.
We do work with a connection of
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women's resources, that would include short term shelter
placements, resource centres and long term placements for
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women.
And in the middle of our own inquest have had a
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number of recommendations but we've made significant
changes in our practice, one of which, and we've heard
signs of safety come up several times, that we are moving
all our case management practice towards that.
We've added a number of positions to our
organization and a number of polyassurance mechanisms to
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