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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ensure that the breadth and depth of practice is, is at its
best quality.
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THE COMMISSIONER:
How many employees do you
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have?
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MS. CYR:
Right now I've got 25, and we run beds
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for up to 60 women. In most other facilities, whether they
be institutional facilities or shelter facilities, usually
have almost two to one staff, so you can see how short on
resources we are in order to do this kind of work for long
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term.
We have some women who can't actually leave our
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facilities until their day parole, temporary absence or
their warrant expiry dates happen.
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We work, we work with CFS.
We do charge per
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diems for children who stay with us who are the
guardianship of CFS. We provide 24/7 care. We -- all of
our sites are 24/7 staffed. We have safety plans in place.
We insist -- our issue with systems and our women
is that women aren't at the centre of their plans, neither
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are their children.
The -- we get them often as
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prescribes, so women will come in with the holy trinity of
addictions, parenting and anger management with very little
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follow-up.
No one's accountable to the most vulnerable
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people in the plan, which is very frustrating.
We've had
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varieties of situation where workers have had difficulty
demonstrating safety or danger issues and based solely on
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