May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
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B.A. CYR - CR-EX. (GINDIN) MAY <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />
D.L. ROUSSIN - CR-EX. (GINDIN)<br />
S.E. TAYLOR - CR-EX. (GINDIN)<br />
D.M. KNOL - CR-EX. (GINDIN)<br />
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MR. GINDIN: Okay. And the reason that you --<br />
that's what I was getting at.<br />
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Record.<br />
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MR. GINDIN:<br />
Why do you feel that you need to<br />
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record --<br />
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MS. CYR: Conversations.<br />
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MR. GINDIN:<br />
-- in fine detail the conversations<br />
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that you have with social workers?<br />
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MS. CYR:<br />
Because I've had social workers say<br />
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things in regards to the way they speak to our families.<br />
It's the context in which they speak, and they will often<br />
make decisions in those meetings and bring them back and<br />
their supervisor will either override or the program<br />
manager will override that decision, and they'll come back<br />
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and say it's never happened or they never said that.<br />
And<br />
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that's happened on several occasions.<br />
So I, in all my<br />
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experience in child welfare, is I record absolutely every<br />
conversation.<br />
MR. GINDIN: So there's a discrepancy often --<br />
MS. CYR: Yes.<br />
MR. GINDIN: -- between what families are telling<br />
you and what social workers are saying the families are<br />
saying?<br />
MS. CYR: Yeah. There's a discrepancy between<br />
what they're saying to the family and what they're saying<br />
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