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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many kids in care? Like really, this is just going to keep
going. Like, how do we get upstream of that?
I think that, you know, again, we all work from
that strength-base model and again, as an organization I am
funded -- you know, I have to show that there's a need out
there and there's a deficit out there, and so I have to ask
a funder to fund that deficit to -- so people can get out
of that deficit and that weakness situation.
If I go around saying families are strong and
great, I need funding for that, no one's going to fund
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that, right, but that needs funding.
I mean, that's the
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strength-based approach.
This is -- this family is on the
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cusp but here's what they're good at and here's what they
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need a little bit more of.
You know, the good stuff,
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right.
Because we all know that healthy communities are
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built on, it's built on the strength of its members, not on
the weaknesses of its members, and so --
MS. WALSH: Right.
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MS. ROUSSIN:
-- how do we build the strengths.
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And so most funding models, you know, this is not --
there's not any one funder that is not guilty of this, I
mean we, we fund deficits, we don't fund strengths, right.
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MS. WALSH:
of prevention funding?
But that's what you would call part
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MS. ROUSSIN: Yeah. Yeah. So and that's so, for
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