I think one of the biggest barriers we face is that we come from a solution that's interdisciplinary. We have mental health work support, elders, and professors all working together, as well as child care. Trying to find funding for this, we are working with up to seven different departments, so we are looking at over 14 different agreements in a year of funding at just one level of government.
We are really trying to work towards comprehensive solutions to funding for innovative ideas. I think this takes a systems change approach, whereby we don't fund things just from a departmental level, but the government as a whole takes leadership over changing education systems for youth. I think that's one of the biggest barriers we face—trying to find funding from all different pockets, instead of the government saying, “Hey, this initiative is working; let's give it funding so that we can build an indigenous institution that's really responsive, that can create policy, and that is scalable across the country.”