Thank you, Madam Chair.
As I mentioned, we haven't as of yet been successful in securing multi-year funding to support the program. I would advise, though it is expensive for us as a charity organization, from a government budget perspective, it is relatively inexpensive. I don't know that there is a women's organization out there that hasn't yet figured out how to turn a dime into a dollar.
In terms of the authentic voices bringing this work forward, it's really important that this be informed by the lived experiences of people who have experienced violence. Being an organization that is a member-based organization representing women's shelters in the province, we have been able to bring that forward and represent those voices.
When I mentioned that we had been presenting at a national conference on this work recently, it was a women's shelters conference. We do have interest from a number of other organizations across the country to be able to take this prevention work forward; however, again, funding becomes the challenging issue in trying to make sure that we are able to travel to meet all those teams.
In Alberta, we went from Fort McMurray to Brooks and east-west from Grande Prairie to Lloydminster, so we were in all corners of Alberta. That does take time, staff and resources, and there are travel costs involved.