Thank you to all of the witnesses.
Given the breadth of witnesses here, it's a bit difficult for me to organize some of my questions.
I think I'll focus my questions on the Carrier Sekani Family Services. I've had an opportunity to review the work you do—programs, services, and research—and I have some specific questions along the lines of things I have been personally and professionally looking at on this committee and in my role as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.
That's not to detract at all from the important contributions that the other folks have made here today.
First of all, I want to say that I agree, to some extent, with the notion that the calls for proposals, specifically with respect to the federal government, can be onerous. In our own way, we have to some extent worked to reduce that within Aboriginal Affairs. The friendship centres, which were formerly under Canadian Heritage, have been brought back into Aboriginal Affairs so that there's some continuity, if you will, around the important work they do, and some synergy there in moving to kind of a one-stop shop. I think that's an important part.
I'm going to get into my questions here, Mary and Wendy. Part of the goal, as it was framed by you, is to have evidence-based community knowledge. I accept this notion as well that, as you said, a pan-Indian approach may not be the best, particularly with regard to this issue. You've done some work in family preservation. I want to focus on the men's programming, as we did last week. Having lived in isolated, remote first nation communities for a considerable amount of time over the course of my life, I firmly believe this is one of the areas that a lot more attention has to be paid to.
I know you've done some work on helping new fathers be strong fathers. I'm not sure if that was a study, Mary, or whether it was a project. You say on your website, in fact, that there are too many to list. I'd like to leave the back half of this time period, then, for you to describe and tell us about some of the evidence-based community knowledge and exercises, projects, studies, etc., that have been effective on this issue, with respect to men in your communities. I think that will take us a long way, in terms of ideas around implementation.
Can you tell me more about those specifically related to men, Mary and Wendy?