Thank you.
I am also employed by the mental health...and I do work with the program, Choices for Men. I'm a co-facilitator for the Eve program, which is kind of a mirror.... Where the men go into the program, the women get the exact same program. I have also worked with probation services for the past four years, which work with the men who are charged with domestic violence. That one is done by probation services. I've worked in that one for four years.
The problem we have in Prince Albert is we've been trying to develop a domestic violence program. In Saskatoon and Regina they have a domestic violence court. When men are charged with domestic violence, they go into a program. In Prince Albert we do not have the funding for that type of program. We've put a proposal together. We've had the chief of police, prosecutors, and judges sit on that. It's gone forward. A little bit of funding was given to the police services to develop some programs around that, and they're doing their portion of it. But that domestic violence program is really essential, especially since we service so many of our northern communities. That's a really key part of what's missing in Prince Albert.