I will absolutely make sure to save some time for Shannon Hurley.
Thank you for that question and for your remarks.
The renewed strategy really builds on the previous strategy by ensuring that we have holistic, integrated action that cuts across prevention education and looks at the whole suite of substance use services, including harm reduction, treatment and recovery. It looks at making sure we're building on the evidence and taking a range of actions in terms of substance controls. It looks at law enforcement and at ensuring the appropriate controls are there for the misuse of substances.
Some of the key actions we're taking include a call for proposals for substance use and addictions programs to make sure we can invest in community-based programs. The call for proposals went out at the end of September. We received just over 600 applications at the end of November. We'll be reviewing those to make sure we can invest in promising, evidence-building, innovative projects at the community level.
I'll turn it over to Shannon Hurley in a minute to talk about some of the prevention work, building on the Icelandic prevention model-based program we have.
We're continuing to take action in terms of authorization and making sure people have access to harm reduction services, whether that's supervised consumption sites, access to naloxone, or drug-checking services so people can know what's in their drugs and health workers also can know what's in substances people are consuming.
There are a range of actions. I can turn it over to my colleague after, in terms of the public safety and law enforcement. There are a suite of surveillance activities, and targeted research and evidence we are looking to build up, including on innovative models, so we can learn and adjust as we are doing that.
For prescribed pharmaceutical alternatives and supervised consumption sites, we are looking at what the evidence is showing and we're monitoring those programs so we can learn, adapt and put in best practices.
Maybe I'll turn it over to Shannon on prevention.