First and foremost, when we move forward, the gathering of information for a pre-sentence report is sort of the beginning piece. The guts of our work is working with the offenders and looking at their level of motivation to make changes.
When you have a client with a mental health issue, it affects every other area of the person's life and the level of motivation to make changes. No matter what we have the client in front of us for, there could be barriers to services, to accessing services, to being able to engage with services. We want to make sure that we address the mental health piece first and foremost, because typically, that is attached to the criminal behaviour.