I believe the programs you're talking about, in terms of interventions of mums who've already had one baby and then preventing further ones, describes very well the mentoring programs we've been implementing with our FASD funding in first nations and Inuit communities. In this coming fiscal year we'll have 30 communities that have mentoring projects.
There are some results that are coming out of the Stop FAS program in Manitoba, on which we have modelled our programming. That program is starting to get preliminary evaluation data, and some of the results are indicating that 60% of the women in that program were no longer at risk of delivering a child with FASD because they've been abstinent from alcohol and drugs for six months or more and were using a family planning method regularly. Sixty-five percent in that program had completed an addictions treatment program. So the model of mentoring--particularly among aboriginal women--is starting to show some results, that it's an effective strategy.
In terms of the aboriginal head start and CPNP youths in our surveillance, the new element we've introduced this year is our maternal child health program, which is introducing home visitors on reserve who will come in pre/post pregnancy. It will be able to make linkages to support programs such as the mentoring program, should that be needed.
So the maternal child health program is building off the head start and the CPNP in that we're starting to look more at operating those programs in a clustered approach, so the programs are all linked and effectively supporting each other.