I want to share what we learned about research findings. The research findings and data information that are relevant to the community and are meaningfully presented have potential for mobilizing communities toward action, particularly when these actions promote healthier children and when they are geared toward promoting healthier future generations. I think this was evident in our community responding with prevention objectives when they were asked to react to prevalence data.
Also, the continuous process of presenting research back to our community advisory board has fed back into what interventions we do, so the project is actually meaningfully owned by our community. There's a continued community commitment to do diabetes prevention. KSDP is continuing in spite of the information. It is this information that Margaret just presented that is stimulating further work and efforts toward diabetes prevention.
The last lesson would be that we need to continue diabetes prevention efforts in new ways that are mutually supportive to other community health efforts. We also need to work on community-level policies—that's something we learned as well—so that we're able to sustain these activities in the community, in addition to a diabetes prevention project.
If we're talking about policies in the community, we also need to think about policies at a broader level, policies at the national level, that promote healthy eating and physical activity for children and that promote environments to promote healthy eating and physical activity for all children in Canada. This would greatly support our community efforts, since our communities are not disconnected from the broader influence of society that impacts communities locally, including our aboriginal communities.
Nia:wen kowa.
Thank you.