In terms of Attawapiskat, we did have a sense from our communications with the chief and council and the community members that there were issues percolating, so we were able to deploy some mental health resources through the Nishnawbe Aski Nation organization, which has a crisis response. Even before the declaration, some surge capacity was deployed to the community with our assistance.
Once the declaration of emergency was made, about two and a half days later a crisis response team was deployed to the community through our NAN partnership. That included mental health crisis counsellors and a youth coordinator.
This is a crisis kind of environment, so there's a bit of a rotation. I think we need to look, at as the Chief has said, the more medium- and long-term work in terms of a transition from crisis to stability to mental health supports for youth in the community writ large.
I think we were responsive. We now have our provincial partners. I won't speak for them, but I know I can say they are physically there at present. That's the emergency medical assistance team who were deployed I think a week after the call. Minister Hoskins was responsive in terms of making that happen.
They are there. They are continuing. They have nurse practitioners, mental health workers, and psychologists who were hired through NAN who are in and out on rotation. There are people who need some respite care, of course, given the volumes of work and the intensity of the work in that community.
We were looking at a more sustainable model in terms of medium-term planning. We'll be deploying some federal presence at an executive level this week to look at the more medium- and long-term planning processes.