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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okay, this is how we're going to deal with this situation
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or this family or this whatever.
We all are constantly
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participating on coalitions and networks and, you know,
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coming to the table on all kinds of stuff.
So we -- you
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know, and that's sort of outside of the CLOUT.
But I do
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find what Sharon's talking about, the, the reason that
those nine organize -- why those specific nine
organizations, we all have a very similar philosophy-based
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service model, you know.
We all believe in the capacity
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building model, we all believe in the strengths-based
approach to working with families and that the families are
at the centre of, of the -- I mean, Ma Mawi doesn't do a
lot of case management but, you know, we do things like
family group conferencing where it's the family that
decides what they need and what they want, and then the
rest of us are workers, it's up to us to try and figure out
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how to get what that family needs, right.
It's not the
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workers sitting around, planning things out for the family
and then presenting that to the family, it's the other way
around.
So, so again, you know, we'll, as executive
directors we'll get together and just vent with one
another, we are a source of support for one another. We'll
compare notes around organizations, like what's your health
benefit plan like, or what your HR stuff going on, you
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