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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Like, I always think we minimize ourselves when we don't
say we're the experts because we do have knowledge and our
families have been able to show change because you work
with them, because they've been able to define the goal.
So --
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MS. WALSH:
wrap-around services.
So you said you want funding for
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MS. TAYLOR: Yes.
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MS. WALSH:
So what does -- you've told us what
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wrap-around services are. What's the funding
recommendation that you have or what's your need?
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MS. TAYLOR:
I, I would say just being able to
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provide us with long term funding, being able to -- versus
short term. Like I, I would love to know -- and also to be
able to have increases every now and then would be really
nice, but it would be tied in with the family and providing
the services to that family and being able to, be able to
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expand.
Like Dilly, when she's talking about not having
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bus tickets, like we're always trying to figure out ways to
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get transportation for families.
We're always sort of
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scraping at the bottom in a way, so it would be nice to
have secure funding that allowed even to even sustain
staff, because I, I am going through now where staff are
leaving because we pay so little and they're going on to
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other higher paying jobs.
Like so when you're talking
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