I should preface my answer by saying that our intervention plan is focused mainly on improving the way that the system serves these kids. The reason is that the evidence, such as it is, tends to show that the things that are effective are usually developed locally in response to local needs, using local resources and taking local cultures into mind.
We have a collaborative project. Most of our partners are service providers who know what their communities need, be it urban or on first nations, but what the challenge seems to be, as this committee has heard before and was actually said in your 2007 report, is that the system that serves these kids tends to be fragmented and it tends to be siloed. Often neither funding nor general thinking about it doesn't focus on all of the multiple providers that serve these kids, including local educational providers, local public heath agencies, local first nations organizations, the people who design neighbourhoods in the municipalities, and so on. From our perspective, it's important to get these organizations to all have a focus on aboriginal child health and to make a little bit of an organizational change such that they include thinking about first nations and Métis populations when they're designing programs and embed that approach in their organizational culture.
What we're trying to do is to focus on how that whole system works, not necessarily by adding resources but by making the resources that are there work better, essentially.