Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  Yes, for sure. By losing our funding, we had to pretty much go down to the bare bones of what it was we wanted to offer in terms of programming. We had to figure out what we wanted to keep and figure out how we could keep that. It probably took about two years to establish that.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  When we had the healing foundation funding in our community, we actually took three streams because we wanted to look in different areas. One of them was a land-based program that focused on a lot of the physical needs, the cultural, the spiritual, and the ceremonial. Then we had

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  To add to that, one of the things we've found over the years as a great prevention tool, and it starts in infancy, is reclaiming our identity: our ceremonies, our language, our land-based education. That's where the basis of our culture is and it's who we are. For women who are

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  That was something we were just talking about. In our community, it is the RCMP, and they are actually stationed an hour away from our community. The difficulty we have with that is the turnover. When we first began this process in 1985, as Burma was saying, we brought on the R

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  When you look at incarcerating a male, I believe the average amount is $118,000. For the program we have, as she stated, our budget is $240,000. We not only work with the offenders but also provide victim services. We also provide family services. We also provide services for eld

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  Yes.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  In our community, the programs we have are not just in one stream. It's a collective vision we have. We also take a holistic approach within the community, in which we involve the school, the justice programs, and the health programs, because we believe that in order to be hol