May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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Q Okay. I think I understand. We've heard the
terms upstream work, midstream and downstream.
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Right.
Am I getting at sort of what you're talking
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about? Are those terms familiar to you?
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Well, I think I understand them but maybe I need
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you to brief me on how you're using those terms.
Q Okay. Well, how about you explain to me when
you're talking about someone in the education field
screening, what, what, what are you talking about when
you're saying that?
A I'm talking there about equipping those
professionals, either through training in child welfare,
that they make more accurate referrals to the services that
those families need, or setting up a system within those,
that -- an education system where those kinds of questions
would flow to people with that expertise to be able to make
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that referral.
And I use the example of the child
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wellbeing centres in New South Wales as an example of the
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latter approach.
approaches.
So, so it would be either of those two
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In the U.K. there's been quite an emphasis on
training teachers and health professionals around sort of
child protection issues so that they make better referrals.
That's an example of the former approach.
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