In addition, we set up an innovative primary health care community intervention process for vulnerable groups in our community, seniors and children. With one common point of coordination managed by the Réseau santé en français, four partners worked together to develop health care promotion services. There is the ACF, which created health care kiosks, the Association des parents fransaskois, which worked to set up child and family service centres, the Division scolaire francophone, which worked on the implementation of integrated services in schools and the Fédération des aînés fransaskois, which focused on senior support centres. In your handouts, you will find the acronyms CAFE, CASA, SIMS and the term Coin santé, with a definition of what these programs are.
The approach we've taken focuses on all health determinants and Saskatchewan's priority in terms of primary health care. This project has had great success and positive results. The work done with children and seniors led to capacity building the likes of which had never before existed in French-speaking Saskatchewan. It led to significant positive effects, namely integrated service initiatives for early childhood, which involve the Division scolaire francophone and Franco-Saskatchewanian parents, supported by all early childhood stakeholders. There were several other positive effects, for instance, the holding of a first-ever children's screening clinic in northern Saskatchewan, in May 2006. Over the next year, there will be two more clinics for children and seniors in northern and southern Saskatchewan. We have come a long way. The most positive effect of this project is certainly that francophones and the province are now speaking in terms of francophone health care, and that the province is now more sensitive to the needs and expectations of francophones.