Good morning. I just wanted to make reference to your question with regard to the success of programs and the young people we work with. I think what really needs to be recognized as well is that when you measure the success of an individual, you need to measure success on how the program was developed.
In particular with our agency, when we are looking at developing programs, we go to the community. We involve the young people and the adults with lived experience. To me, they are the professionals. They are the ones who know what they need. To make reference as well to funding the programs, whether it is one year, three years, or five years—when you look at the victimization that our young people are experiencing right from birth, for many of those children, that developmentally delays them.
Once we get those children and we start working with them through their healing journey, they are already developmentally delayed by three or four years. If a program is only funded for one year...you're doing so much work with that child and you're opening up so many boxes for those children, and then the program is stopped. You're putting that child at further risk of crisis.
I wanted to make reference to that. It is important. I guess that's how we value success and celebration of our children: through those baby steps of their healing journey.