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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historic and current oppression and discrimination and
racism and, you know, residential schools and, and sixties
scoop and all that stuff is poverty, you know, and those
are the conditions that our families are struggling in, and
so how do you deal with that stuff within your centres,
because they're coming in the door with that, and trying to
deal with them in a positive way so that it doesn't get so
-- the situation doesn't get so degraded, you know, that
we're into child protection and family breakdown or
violence or, you know, incarceration and things like that.
So we know that we want to -- I know at the Ma Mawi Wi Chi
Itata Centre, for the kind of funding we get, the services
that I provide that are directly related to kids who are in
the care of the CFS, the group homes, the, the foster
families and everything else, that funding is way more
stable and way more at a, at a higher level than another
set of services that we provide, which is like the youth
leadership programs or the youth mentorship programs.
Again, the, the in-care funding, it's, it's stable, it's a
five-year agreement, you know, unusually renewed every five
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years unless something really fell off the map.
The youth
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leadership stuff, the youth mentorship, the -- you know,
that kind of stuff, I'm hunting it down every year.
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Sometimes it's only for six months.
You know, and we're
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constantly juggling, you know, many plates in the air to
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