That's a really great question. I will say that it's increasingly through an indigenous-led and determined approach. Not all communities want the same types of supports and not all supports work the same way in different communities and with different people.
For example—and this is not a climate-related emergency—I was in James Smith Cree Nation last week. I met with some of the family members who are dislocated from their homes as a result of damage from the horrific violence that took place in their homes.
One family—a man who has been bereaved of his wife; his surviving child, who was also a victim; and his two or three other young children—is staying in a hotel that is not in the community and in an urban setting. It is exceedingly difficult for that man as he grieves while also trying to support his children from the location of a hotel room.
In that case, of course, the family is receiving a variety of different mental health supports, but he told me that indeed it is the connection with cultural elders and some traditional healing practices that are giving the most relief from the excruciating grief, pain, fear and trauma-related disorders the entire family is facing. All the children are still out of school. It is a very challenging situation.
If you think about an entire community in that kind of space, it takes an enormous lift.
The department works extremely hard at being sensitive to the requests of the community and individual community members about what kinds of supports and services would be appropriate. We also work with partners like the Canadian Red Cross and other kinds of service delivery organizations when there's a mass evacuation, for example, to make sure that people get supports while they're dislocated. They're oftentimes staying in hotels or other larger convention centre-types of situations.
Maybe I can turn to Joanne to speak a bit about what that diversity looks like.