I think part of the work that we do is life skills and orientation. Child rearing is an example. Because of the committee that Mike and Ken spoke about, we had a very strong connection to the police.
We had an incident in a hotel, as an example, where there was a family out in the courtyard and I think the father smacked the child. Someone was going by and they saw that and they called the police.
The police came, but because we had that relationship with the police we were able to have some discussions about it. We were able the next day, when we did our workshops and the nurses came in, to really focus on child rearing again, about alternative ways to discipline your child, how to support your kids. It's because of our connection to the system we were able to work very closely.
I think people were afraid that they were going to lose their child because there were lots of stories about the Children's Aid taking their kids and everything else, but we didn't have any of that happen. It helped us to reinforce how best to raise kids in Canadian society.