May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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the people that need them?
A That's correct. And, you know, one of the ways
you could maybe do that, and again, I've seen examples of
this, is you have a community with a series of agencies
that provide services, and you provide funding to a lead
agency to help coordinate those services among the agencies
and among the child welfare, the child welfare agency that
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serves those communities.
So that's one of the ways to
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establish at least the kind of coordinated capacitybuilding
we talk about in the community caring model.
Q Okay. Just want to move on now to the West
Region Child and Family Services funding, block funding
model, the study that you looked at - prepared.
Now, there was an innovative funding model, it
was a block funding model that was implemented, and you
looked at how that worked and what the results were?
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Right.
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Q Okay. Can you just give a brief background of,
of the history of that?
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Well, the funding model was negotiated by Elsie
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Flette, who was director of west region at the time, and
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the Indian Affairs at the time, INAC at the time.
think the funding model was negotiated in 1991.
It -- I
It really
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didn't start until about 1992, but the basic idea behind it
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was the federal government was initiated
-- or was
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