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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over here and I'm taking care of all these programs but I
have no idea how those programs are working or if my
families really do get them, even though I get numbers.
But I do, I know how it's working because I go to my
programs and I'm there every day to check to see how things
are going in between meetings and reports and everything
else. But if you believe in your community and you believe
in what you're doing as an agency, I believe we are making
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a difference.
If we had more resources we could make a
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bigger difference.
MS. WALSH: Okay. So maybe that takes us to the
next topic, which is the topic of to whom should -- well,
it was specifically differ -- money for differential
response funding, which is -- but I mean, that is what,
what you are all doing, is you're not doing protection
work, you're doing what --
MS. TAYLOR: (Inaudible).
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MS. WALSH:
-- the child welfare system calls
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family enhancement work.
So what, what recommendations
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does each of you have regarding funding in terms of, of
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better supporting your work?
Do you want to go back in
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reverse order. So we'll start with you, Dilly.
MS. KNOL: Okay, differential response, I mean, I
like the idea of seeing it because I think the first spot
is the community, because families build a relationship
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