That's an excellent question.
Most of the programming we do is for a set period of time. It depends on the agency that we're co-facilitating with and their budget. My biggest partner would be the Phoenix Centre for Children and Families, out of Pembroke. Right now, we're looking for funding of about $130,000 for this upcoming year to provide programming. They've broken it down into a group of seven sessions because they want to see x number of clients.
In our pilot project, we did a group of five sessions. I found that five sessions were not enough to make huge progress. We did make fantastic progress, but there was so much more we could have done had we had the time.
Now, you can overkill this. I say that 12 weeks is usually the maximum, because then we would have done all the activities. We would have touched on a lot of things. After 12 weeks, our clients should have a really good foundation of some skills they can use in the family, coping and.... Again, it's based on budgets and what our supporting agencies decide as far as time goes, but definitely, five weeks is not enough. Our next pilot will be for seven weeks. I still don't feel that's enough. Ideally, it would be for 10 to 12 weeks.