Status of Women committee  No. We totally agree with that. She said it just as we would.

Status of Women committee  I know from speaking with our justice minister that there's not really any legislation in place right now, and they are not going to do stand-alone legislation. They're going to wait and see what Nova Scotia does before they look at anything. I know they're looking at it in the schools.

Status of Women committee  Yes, definitely.

Status of Women committee  We're non-profit and we do not receive any core funding. All the money that we use to operate, and we're fully operational, we raise ourselves.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  We need funding badly. It was great to get the project because we had done all the workshops on little grants through our provincial women's secretariat, which showed us there needed to be a lot more work done. We were grateful when the call for proposals came out from Status of Women and it fit right in with the work we had been doing.

Status of Women committee  Yes, we developed strategies from the needs assessment, based on the recommendations we heard from the community consultations and focus groups and online surveys. We reached over 5,000 people ultimately, and got a lot of good feedback. Now we're really eager to keep it going and we're seeking funders to help us.

Status of Women committee  We've found that especially girls are more comfortable coming to someone to get help, whereas before, they were too fearful or embarrassed to do it. It's hard to judge whether it has helped much, because there seem to be a lot more coming forward. It's just a question of where we can find the solutions to help them get through their problems, because there's really been nothing done since we started this project.

Status of Women committee  Yes. I believe with this kind of issue you need to have the community-based groups dealing with them on the ground level.

Status of Women committee  I am just doing the intro, and then Nancy Beth is taking over and doing the rest. My name is Andy Lou Somers, and I'm the executive director of East Prince Women's Information Centre in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. We are a resource and referral centre that works with women and girls in the central to western part of the province.