It's at that point that we often step in.
Who we hear from and start to receive referrals from might be the parent of a youth whose friend is spending a whole lot of extra time at their home and has opened up and shared. We rely very heavily on educators, teachers, who can identify the early indicators of a youth returning to school wearing the same clothes or potentially sharing.
That's why when I talked about what we can do to invest more greatly in prevention, I noted education systems. In Alberta, our education system is so overwhelmed that teachers don't have the time and space anymore to pay attention to those indicators, and that's putting us at greater risk.
