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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know, like, we'll --
MS. TAYLOR: Or lack of.
MS. ROUSSIN: Yeah, like we'll share that kind of
expertise and knowledge with each other. Sometimes I know,
again, Ma Mawi administrates a large health benefit plan,
so some of the smaller organizations are coming under us to
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get the leveraged benefit of a group plan.
So we find all
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kinds of ways to work together and collaborate.
And it's,
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most of it's focused on service delivery but there's also
our, our capacity as organizations and how we're pooling
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that or how we're working on that.
And sometimes it
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involves advocacy. If we just see something's flat out not
being done and, all right, let's all go down to city hall,
or, let's all go down to the leg., or, let's write the
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letters, or, let's, you know, do the thing.
So we do some
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of that as well, right.
Like because we're all for good
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public policy and we're all for making policy work for
families and work for community, and that community voice
needs to be at the table, it can't be top-down kind of
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problem-solving here.
problem-solving.
MS. WALSH:
Like it's got to be bottom-up
So it's fair to say that from your
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perspective, your various perspectives, the community-based
organizations are collaborating?
MS. ROUSSIN: Absolutely --
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