First of all, we're not collecting or doing any type of research, so we're not generating new statistics with the Evidence to Action project. A lot of the statistics that we have generated are from the Sisters in Spirit project. There is an increased need to continue doing that type of work, to better look at what's going on. Our president could probably speak more about the various successes we have noticed.
There is an increased educational component among aboriginal youth. They are the biggest demographic. They continue to have various socio-economic challenges.
What we do now in collecting information comes very much from our needs assessments with families. Earlier I mentioned the family gathering. Part of that process is about dialoguing with the families. We also do life stories. Recently, to respond to the new technologies, we created digital life stories. I don't know if anyone has seen them, but they're a very powerful means of getting our message out. They tell about the challenges families have and the situations they find themselves in. They tell how a loved one went missing or was murdered. From this kind of work, from the stories of the families, we are now moving forward in getting the type of information we need.
I want to emphasize again that our current project does not do research, so that's a limitation. The final report might mention that there is an ongoing need to continue this type of research and generate new statistics.
One of the issues that we encounter, particularly with our community engagement workshops, is that we continue to use the data from the 2010 Sisters in Spirit report. Many people are dissatisfied with that. They want new and updated information, and it's a challenge for us to provide that. We can provide anecdotal statistics, but we need a more proven mechanism. We have had recent conversations with Statistics Canada on how we can move forward. That's the preliminary work in this area.