Around the province of British Columbia, as I mentioned, we're broken into five different regions, and our regional teams each probably have a community or a grouping of communities that has a success story to share. One of the things we hear the most as a model is that culture saves lives for first nations people, so we advocate very strongly for a model that respects both western medicine and what clinical medicine has to offer and what traditional healing, ceremony and being on the land have to offer. There are examples of that around the province.
Another example is Cheam First Nation in the Fraser Salish region, which was the first first nations community in British Columbia to have an overdose prevention site located on reserve. I think that took place after a lot of discussion within the community and a realization that because of the number of deaths, something had to be done.
One of our roles at FNHA is to also foster that cross-community communication. For example, the Tla'amin first nation on the Sunshine Coast has spoken publicly about their success in bringing the number of deaths due to toxic drugs down over the last several years, so we're looking for an opportunity where they can share their learnings with other communities, not just within the Vancouver coastal region but also with the other regions of British Columbia.
There are peer reduction programs, and we have different harm reduction grants. We gave out 108 harm reduction grants last year. We have an opportunity at different gatherings for those communities to share what they did with the money, for example, and how that improved the situation in their communities. We do track that and we share it in different fora.