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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with the community and, and, and people that work in
community, so that we're there all the time, we're not
there just once in a blue moon to support them kind of
thing. We're there to support them all the time. So I
think if we got money, a family comes, says, why can't I
have more money so I can make sure I have the child care I
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need for the parent to take parenting.
You want your
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parents to get skills but you won't -- there's so many
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boundaries in the way for them to get those kills.
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have three kids at home.
How can they go into a parenting
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program every day?
Who's going to take care of the
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children, and you know, which becomes an issue or
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everything.
Transportation is an issue, you know, those
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kind of thing. I wish they would just give us extra money,
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know we work with families and that.
My fear is that if I
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have to start keeping files on families that I, that I work
with in order to get money, then keep your money because
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that's not going to help my families.
My families are not
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going to come to my centre because they're going to lose
trust because they're going to feel that I work for CFS not
Andrews Street Family Centre. And, and they do want -- you
know, if they -- because I read about it and stuff like
that, and I'm just saying, if I have to open a file to a
family that drops in, in order to get some money to get
extra child care or to get extra bus tickets or to be able
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