May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
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B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />
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were not adequately attended to at the front end.<br />
And<br />
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then, as a result, when devolution occurred, agencies were<br />
so inundated, if you will, with the child protection<br />
mandate, the building their own staff capacity for services<br />
and the increase in families being referred and children<br />
coming into care, that we know from, from the statistical<br />
evidence happened, that they really didn't have the time in<br />
many, in most cases, to develop those kinds of models of<br />
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service that I'm speaking about.<br />
And it was further<br />
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influenced by the lack of funding that would help make<br />
those things happen.<br />
Q Right. Devolution was a pretty massive shift in<br />
the way --<br />
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Yeah, it was.<br />
-- in what was happening at the time?<br />
Right.<br />
The, the community caring paradigm sounds like<br />
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paradigm that wouldn't be exclusive to the aboriginal<br />
community; it would be something that could work for<br />
everyone. Is that --<br />
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Absolutely.<br />
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Q Okay. Is there anything other than building<br />
community capacity that would be required in order to make<br />
that sort of shift, paradigm shift?<br />
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Well, I think there, there are examples of, of<br />
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