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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home, so ...
MS. WALSH: Okay. Thank you.
Sharon?
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question was.
MS. TAYLOR:
MS. WALSH:
I'm trying to think what the
The question was recommendations with
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respect to funding to better promote the work that you're
doing.
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MS. TAYLOR:
I think what I would like is to be
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able to have wrap-around services for every family, and to
be --
MS. WALSH: What does that mean?
MS. TAYLOR: Wrap-around services, what I mean is
where the family is the centre; the family decides what
sort of the needs are and that you're able to work on it.
So if we know that a family has substance abuse, it's like,
okay, what do they define as the goal to be able to achieve
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that end?
We don't usually have absolute answers but it's
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about stages, it's like, okay, somebody may be on crack but
it like, okay, we're not dealing with -- they'll say it's
an issue and then we start weeding them down to be able to,
to the point where they may be using weed, and that to us
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is a benefit in a way.
It's about, I think it's about
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having the family always at the centre.
It's not about
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that we're the experts but we are an expert in a way.
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