May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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inclusion in the community, those are ways of getting at
those young children who otherwise aren't seen?
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Absolutely.
Okay.
And if I can add one more thing to that, I would
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say to you that I think our services in that area, those
specially-targeted programs that support families, are not,
are under-developed in, in our province and we need to do
more of that, and the greater the level of poverty and
inequality the more we need those special targeted
programs.
Q Okay. That, that actually takes me to the next
question I was going to ask you, or the next area I was
going to go to, which was the recommendation you make at
page 39090, 39090, which was that -- we don't necessarily
need to go there, but that was that you recommend in your
evaluation that there's a need for more comprehensive
prevention and you call it early intervention strategy for
child and, child and welfare services. Is that what you're
talking about there?
A That's exactly what I'm referring to. I think
that we do have a range of universal programs that are
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generally available to families.
They're not always as
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coordinated as they should be, and you referred to that
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earlier in your question.
I think that's an aspect that
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