Part of the difficulty is that schools themselves are not providing a safe place for a student, in the first place. That's what this is about, providing safety. So if they're not provided a safe place, whether it's in their own community or in the urban centre, having a specific course may be one part of many things that have to happen, because they're also talking about family dynamics. They're talking about a student living with violence.
I'm going to talk about myself. As a child I was violated, and school was a way for me to disappear from my family. It was an escape from what was occurring to me as a child. So school was a safe place for me. But in some places school isn't a safe place. So you can't put resources into a school unless you know that it's a safe place.
Again, if you're talking about self-esteem, you also have to talk about culture. You have to talk about where they come from, about their identity, and part of that—and I'll keep coming back to it—is language. We have an immersion school at home, where I come from, where they're teaching the language, but those who are coming out of some of those schools are still not in healthy relationships. So if they're not taught the teachings from the language about healthy relationships, to me, that is the core. Part of our teaching as we're growing up is that there are certain things that you're to do and certain things you're not to do. Our elders would teach us that responsibility from the time that you're a child and then when you reach your change in life. There are ceremonies for that. That teaches you about self-esteem, those ceremonies that are done during that time. If you're not taught those, you don't know.
So it's bigger than a little course in school.