Just quickly, I want to reiterate that NWAC lost 100% of its health department funding in 2012 and has had no capacity to address any health issue.
Luckily, in 2014 we were funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to start engaging in health research and partnerships. That's why I'm called a “PEKE”, a partner for engagement and knowledge exchange. This funding opportunity allows us to do some work on suicide prevention and mental health.
With the work we're doing right now, we're able to partner with research teams that are doing participatory research with communities in different areas throughout Canada. These are really innovative partnerships, such as looking at resiliency factors through innovative research projects like dance, theatre, and art, working with the youth, and working with the communities. I think these have been really fabulous research partnerships and approaches to dealing with suicide.
We also engage with Statistics Canada. We have no funding to do so, but we partner to do joint publications and to analyze the data. We look at a lot of APS stuff that we have, and I think we're going to be promoting the next APS as well.
We partner with a lot of different organizations that work on mental health through providing feedback on their mental health frameworks for first nations, Métis, and Inuit. It's really difficult, because I'm a department of one. We're looking at suicide and at every health issue. I work on every health issue in Canada, and you know there are many issues that are impacting our aboriginal women.
We're trying to do more. We realized after everything that was happening that we.... It's hard to be able to do. Although we consult with a lot of the women on the ground in our regions, I am not in the communities myself, unless we go to do some of our research collaborations and I get to work with the women. So things—