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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entrepreneurial we need to be in making the funding work,
because families are families, you know, and they're
holistic and they're coming in with all kinds of things
that they need addressed and, and they don't silo
themselves up and so you can't have service that's all
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siloed.
But behind the scenes, like I can sometimes draw
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the line where that funding ends and that funding -- you
know, for the same person, right, like it's, it can't be --
You know, I have a funder who will fund cultural stuff and,
you know, will fund a sweat lodge but won't fund it beyond
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the Perimeter.
And I'm like, well, we don't have sweat
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lodges in the city, I don't know how we're supposed to make
that work. Anyway, things like that, right. So it's more,
you know, then you get the foundations and, you know, so I
think we know how we would like that funding to work for us
as an organization. How all those funders could
potentially coordinate or collaborate themselves, that
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would be a dream, yeah.
I don't know -- I'm trying to
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think through how that might work but ...
MS. WALSH: Sharon?
MS. TAYLOR: Yeah. I'm a mix, too, having
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multiple funding.
But if I was looking -- if you're just
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talking the province, I would say Healthy Child because
they have eight or nine ministers that sit there and it
gives them the mandate to look holistically at families. I
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