Yes, I was just about to do that earlier.
I am referring to a specific project. I briefly mentioned it earlier. That project was carried out in remote Quebec communities. As part of the initiative, an organization would go to eight communities and educate young girls. Once that step was completed, some of the girls were asked whether they were interested in doing more in terms of research on the topic at hand—in this case, violence—by creating short films or any other artistic products they could distribute. Afterwards, they could speak publicly about their product. It was sometimes difficult to do that in certain communities. Once the short films or artistic products were completed, the women would get an opportunity to distribute them in their community, in the broader sense, so that those communities would be informed about the issues.
An interesting project was carried out by a non-aboriginal organization that had developed a model based on leadership training for young women. The women had mentors and were given an opportunity to develop peer networks and then go back home to do activities and put the skills they had acquired during the training into practice. They could go back to their respective communities and talk about violence-related issues or other types of issues. An aboriginal organization visited that non-aboriginal organization to see whether the model could be adapted. That model was extremely successful.
They sat down and considered the issues for discussion and the way they should be addressed. Then, they created an advisory committee made up of 10 young aboriginal women to identify the topics. Afterwards, they created the national forum. Once again, the goal was to try to reach young aboriginal women. Everyone was invited. I think that almost 340 people showed an interest, and a small number of them were chosen because we could not take everyone.
However, that gave us an opportunity to provide those young women with training. They then returned to their communities. They have been given support to develop community projects, try to get their community interested in certain issues and find the right partners.
Those are examples of projects whose scope is regional, but also national. Aboriginal and non-aboriginal organizations working together to get the best of both worlds really worked well in this case. It was very productive.