Status of Women committee  Okay. We're governed by a board. We can have a maximum of 12 members on our board.

Status of Women committee  There are various roles. We have a treasurer, vice-president, president, and then members of the community at large. We often engage professionals with various expertise to be on our board. We do that because we want them as well to go into the community and talk about being a bo

Status of Women committee  Yes, it's as diverse as possible.

Status of Women committee  For second-stage housing, we unfortunately receive a significantly lower amount of money from the government. We have to fundraise more than 50% in order to maintain our services and support. That is one huge barrier for us and is often a challenge when we want and we try to impl

Status of Women committee  It's more than $250,000 per year.

Status of Women committee  We have to fundraise about $250,000 for the year. That's the 50%.

Status of Women committee  We've actually just done an evaluation of that. It raises annually approximately $20,000.

Status of Women committee  The purpose of the event is, first and foremost, to engage men and boys to help us raise awareness about violence against women in our local community. Men and boys will walk one mile in red high-heeled shoes and generate pledges to get support.

Status of Women committee  ÷I do. I can share something with you that we are actively in the process of. For example, we have men on our board of directors, and part of our practice in this upcoming year is having a speaker's bureau and training this board of directors to go out there and engage them in pu

Status of Women committee  I believe that engaging men to be part of this process will—

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Status of Women committee  Our process is to engage men for the speaker's bureau for our organization, not just to speak to organizations or places that contact us but actively being part of that in the community where we are offering the speaker's bureau to address violence against women. The speakers c

Status of Women committee  To start with, the therapeutic dog program we have in place is for all ages, so a child does not have to be reading, they can read from pictures. That comes from a therapeutic best practice approach of course when you incorporate that into a program.

Status of Women committee  I believe there is. It's still in its early stages, but we know it is working. In terms of safety, how do children keep themselves safe? Access to the Internet is huge. Children are accessing the Internet. They're on chat lines, Facebook, Instagram, and so on. We're intertwining

Status of Women committee  I would like to make one suggestion, or one recommendation, and that is to hold perpetrators more accountable when there is hard evidence against them about a situation. I'll give you an example. One woman who had come to us had been incested by her father. Because of a delay i