I can start, and maybe ask Dr. Wiebe to complement it.
A large amount of this funding is going toward treatment centres for mental health and addictions. We are funding treatment centres across the country because it's part of the offer. We are measuring success in terms of indicators, one of which is quitting at least one substance after the treatment and after a certain period of time. We are monitoring that. These centres do as well, if not better sometimes, than similar treatment centres in the mainstream.
I would say it is very challenging. The target is not 100%, because sometimes there is need for retreatment. We have targets and measures on that to see how these treatment centres are performing. We are also measuring the demand and their capacity. There is need for more capacity in these treatment centres because the demand is high.
Communities are funded for prevention programs around mental health. We are targeting youth. Each community has a health plan that supports these programs. They have to report to us annually and every five years produce an evaluation of the performance of the programs. And because the program is not delivered exactly the same way in all communities, the assessments are done community by community.
We are monitoring macro-indicators, though, to see how the situation is evolving in Canada. The work that StatsCan is doing is really good, but as you can see in their statistics, they say they don't include first nations on reserve, for example. We are funding a regional health survey through a partnership with first nations across the country that produces data every, I think, three years to measure the evolution of a number of health and social factors on reserve to see how this is progressing. We see some progress there.
I'm not satisfied with this progress because the needs are so high, and we need to make some changes, but I believe the framework and the new way to approach mental wellness will bring some better results in the end, because we know that interventions that are grounded in culture, land-based interventions, are a huge success. Sometimes we have success evaluations on specific initiatives to try to identify best practices. It's not because it's a framework that is given to the community for them to plan. We are not developing tools to help them go to the right model.
I have to say that first nation and Inuit communities across the country are very creative, and they came with their solutions. Sometimes it's the propagation of these solutions and making sure we can extend them that is the challenge, because the real solutions are coming from them, and we are trying to encourage them with programs that are very flexible.