May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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Then we would have early intervention services
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that are available, more targeted programs that are
available to families that have, they're very well
adjusted, very well able to take advantage of those
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programs and do so on a voluntary basis.
Let's say you're
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a family that has a special needs child or a child with a
disability but you need extra supports, those kinds of
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targeted programs.
If you move up that rung you run more
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into families that often don't use those voluntary
services. Perhaps there are impairments such as addictions
and those kinds of things that really demand targeted
programs that may have a certain amount of requirement,
they're not entirely voluntary, there's some non-voluntary
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nature to those services.
Those kinds of non -- those
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kinds of targets programs are important for that next rung
of families that aren't making use of and doing well and
their children are at greater level of risk.
And then if you move up that tier you, you have
child protection services that are provided to families to
support children in their own homes by the child welfare
system.
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Right.
And children in out-of-home care.
I see.
And it's those targeted services at those, at the
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