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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somewhere else in the world, we know what works right here
in our neighbourhoods. You know, we're very neighbourhood-
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based organizations.
We all operate from that community
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economic development lens whereby the families that we're
actually working with and serving often will start working
within our organizations and will move into the marketplace
or into education systems because they've, you know,
developed themselves, you know, to a point where they're
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ready to, to take that step.
And we always are -- that's
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always our goal, right, it's never stops at just the
services, it's, it's okay, we got to work on all of our
capacities of community and so the goal is always to keep
it moving, right.
And so, you know, I think that it involves a lot
of dialogue and I think it involves like true engagement,
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like not consultation.
We got to get past consultation.
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We got to get into engagement, which again is, there's a
reciprocal nature to that.
And we spend a lot of time amongst ourselves
talking about what's needed and I think we're, we are here
today even, you know, offering that up, so we need to
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collaborate.
Again, there's -- I think of pockets of the
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collaboration and so there needs to be better collaboration
among those pockets, so that's what I would recommend.
MS. WALSH: Thank you.
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