I'd like to respond.
As I said, we have one position at Crabtree, and it took a long time to get the funding for that, even though all the staff are working on this issue. They may be funded to do something else--maybe work on FASD or something--but because this is so prevalent in the lives of our clients, they're all doing it.
It's not only the moneys for the position; it's also that the staff themselves need support. So it's money to provide that so they can keep doing this work, because they're at real risk of compassion fatigue--if they haven't already experienced it. I think we're losing key people in this field, key women in this field, because of that.
I also think they need to keep it in order to continually be trained. Even to come to an event like this takes us away from our work and from a large number of clients we're not able to provide services for at this particular time. So definitely funding is an issue.
As I said, I've been working with funders for a very long time, talking about women and violence every which way there is to talk about it. I don't know what it takes to convince those who will fund us that we need the funding. I think it's been said every which way it can possibly be said.