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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get that kind of -- and stitching it together is very
piecemeal, it's very project-based, you know, again, where
the other stuff is more, it's, you know, what we would call
the core funding, right. And so when you have core funding
it doesn't -- it allows you to be a bit more innovative,
you know, when you're dealing because there isn't any one
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problem that everybody faces, you know.
Everyone's coming
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in with something just a little bit different and you got
to have enough room to move to be able to deal with those
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situations.
And a lot of what families come in for, most
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organizations don't have their -- like (inaudible)
emergency service stuff, like most of us don't have budgets
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to deal with that.
Like, people need -- they're going to
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get evicted, they don’t have another damage deposit, you
know, they don't have money to move their stuff, they don't
have somewhere to store their stuff, they don't -- you
know, there's, there's these very common sorts of things
that none of us get funding for and so you're trying to
figure out how you can, you know, piece things together to
deal with some of that in between the cracks.
So I think core funding allows you to be a bit
more innovative to deal with some of those situations.
There needs to be more of an emphasis on how we fund
preventative pieces versus sort of just the intervention.
Because I -- like we're downstream here. Like, I mean, how
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