I'd be happy to speak to the fact that the first nations and Inuit health branch is a little bit like a province, in that we're responsible for providing those public health promotion services on reserve that a province would provide elsewhere. And we do collaborate with the Public Health Agency; our teams work together, and we ensure that the work we do is consistent with their work. But we also have a special responsibility for community-based programming on reserve. We have developed in that area.
I could speak more on that, Mr. Chair, if you would like me to.
I would say that we are basing all of our programming on evidence that exists in other jurisdictions, and we have in fact based a lot of our mentoring program for women of child-bearing age at risk of consuming alcohol on what's already been done in Manitoba with the Stop FAS program. I could speak at length about our mentoring program.
We're also doing a lot of training in capacity building.
I can tell you that on the awareness piece, we have had significant progress. We have a recent opinion survey that says that 86% of first nations and 75% of Inuit aged 18 to 40 have identified that stopping the use of alcohol is an important factor in having a healthy baby. Similarly, 94% of first nations and 86% of Inuit are aware of FASD, and only a small percentage—less than 10%—think it is okay to consume alcohol during pregnancy.
So we're moving forward in our awareness, but we're also delivering services, which explains why there is a significant level of resources within the first nations and Inuit health branch, because we're actually doing programming on reserve.