Gignoo Transition House is the only aboriginal transition house in the province of New Brunswick. We service all 15 first nations. We are in Maliseet territory. I am a Maliseet woman from the Woodstock First Nation, which is one hour away. I travel every day to Fredericton. However, our transition house is located off-reserve. It services both the Mi'kmaq and the Maliseet women, so there's no fighting over who has ownership because we have our board of directors.
I am also the treasurer for the National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence. Gignoo is also a founding board member. Four of us were instrumental in starting the National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence. That's something that I've been a part of since its inception.
I am also the co-chair, with Norma Dubé from the Province of New Brunswick women's issues branch, of the advisory committee on violence against aboriginal women. Sarah handed out our strategic framework, which would take more than eight minutes to talk about. We brought it so that you could read it at your leisure.
I'm also traveling around Canada to present our healing journey tool kit, which I omitted to bring. It is a New Brunswick initiative that helps service providers working in the field of family violence to help women who come to them. We're very rural and located in Fredericton; it was a tool to help others and went from being a New Brunswick initiative to a national initiative. It is clear across Canada now, and I've been busy going into the provinces with INAC-funded shelters to present on that initiative.
I'm happy to be here. Thank you for allowing me to come. We'll talk more when it's my turn.
Thank you.