Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Normally we hire external firms to do the evaluation for us. They put together surveys. They go out and survey shelter directors and others in the community. It's an evaluation. It's not done by staff of the department. So that is available. It looks at how our program performed

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Just off the top of my head, we fund the National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence, which is a network for the 41 shelter directors. I think they have a lot of expertise and reflection on what works and what is not working in those 41 shelters. I would suggest certainly

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Certainly in the area of income assistance reform, we are formalizing our relationship with Human Resources and Skills Development, as well as with Health Canada, in a regional and a national context to bring the three departments together to work with first nations communities a

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  There is the family violence initiative that involves a number of departments. PHAC has the lead for that, and we're a member.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I'm sorry. It's Public Health.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  The Public Health Agency of Canada has the lead, but Status of Women Canada, Justice Canada, Public Safety, ourselves...it's a multiplicity of departments.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Certainly, we're building an action plan right now for forward planning with a number of elements on it. We are doing a scan, and Public Health could probably speak to this better than I can in terms of taking stock of what programs are available to assist families and women and

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I'm not sure that we can reconcile. We do have departments with programs that serve.... Our department is focused on reserve. But aboriginal women are across this country. There's a complexity of services and municipal, provincial, and federal jurisdictions that deal with this

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Since that case was launched in 2007, there's been significant augmentation of resources for the child and family services program. We're now at $630 million a year, which is a significant increase, even from 2007. There's an additional $100 million a year going into child and fa

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  That's $205 million over those years, the amount we spent cumulatively. Through our budget, which is about $30 million a year, we spend about $18 million, a little more on the 41 shelters and their operations. We fund the national aboriginal circle that supports that group of 41

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  The 41 shelters are available to all first nations communities, but because of their locations, they can't serve them all, so communities that aren't close to those shelters will access provincial services or provincial shelters instead. There are about 3,000...I don't have the f

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  We've worked with jurisdictions as they've moved their approaches to more prevention, early intervention programming. We've made those changes as well. Since 2007 we've rolled out that enhanced prevention-focused approach to six jurisdictions, and we're working with the remaining

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Those funds go to cover the cost of the 105 agencies we now have—there's been a growth in the number of first nations child and family service agencies across the country—as well as to reimburse provinces for their services. Certainly when we started a long time ago, we probably

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  The family violence initiative committee is usually at the director general or assistant deputy minister level, and that group is supported by a working group, which is much more a line managers group. That's the construct that's been operating for that initiative.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  We can get Public Health to provide some documentation, because they collect it on behalf of all the departments. We can let them know that some follow-up is required with this committee on the information around that initiative.