Just to explain, we said that within Yellowknife we have one of the most effective homelessness coalitions under the national homelessness strategy in the country. All of the people, Kate and her confreres in the other support agencies, get together on a monthly basis with all of the government funders and program operators and they have an open discussion. They've broken down and set their strategies and priorities.
We have built a transitional centre for men, which supports the emergency centre for men. There are about 49 beds, I believe, in the emergency shelter, and those beds can include mats. There are 32 in the transitional shelter. Kate and the YWCA run an emergency program for families. Then the Centre For Northern Families runs a program for women. Our current highest priority is to build a transitional shelter for women. There's just been an application to the housing corporation for the funding to put that in place.
The other challenge is that we do have a centre for youth, but under the social services legislation, young offenders legislation, and other things, you're really restricted in what you can do with youth. So the manner in which homeless youth are administered to isn't quite right, but it's a survival requirement. Recognizing that these people are run off their feet, especially in the emergency shelters at nighttime, and that there was nothing for the daytime, we've just, in the last two or three weeks, opened a day shelter, which is an area where people can gather and also get assistance and recommendations and food and coffee and those types of things.