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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do we support the families?
Because I'm not naïve to not
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say that there isn't, at some point, that families may need
support that's beyond them and maybe the children do need
to be protected, but what would that protection look like
in a way that was really holistically talking to the family
as to what it would need, like as far as them. So I always
think you go to the source and ask them what they need.
And we've been very successful because we listen to what
they have to say.
MS. WALSH: Thank you.
Dilly?
MS. KNOL: Okay. A recommendation is I think
agencies, community agencies should have the prevention
money and it shouldn't be in the hands of CFS because the
families don't trust CFS because they have the ability to
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take your child way.
So I think that if you really want
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prevention -- and CFS really, I can't blame it on all --
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they've got a lot to do.
So all they end up doing is the
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crisis and the apprehension and the things like that
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because they don't have time to do the prevention.
So
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seriously, if you don't have time to do the prevention, do
a good job at the apprehension and taking care of the kids
at that point, but let the community then do the prevention
so the families don't have to get CFS.
MS. WALSH: Thank you. Those are my questions,
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