The Canadian Women's Foundation is strongly committed to research-based practices, so when they began the Girls' Fund, they hired researchers to do a scan of work such as that coming out of the Resilience Research Centre and to look at what the factors are.
The factors are leadership skills, strong critical thinking.... Those are all resiliency factors that have been identified and well documented in research. My own research with first nations youth has been focused on cultural connectedness. There's not as long-standing a research base there, but the importance of that is starting to be better articulated. That's where I'm doing some work.
So when we do a call for funding, it looks like a best-practice guideline. It asks questions such as how you get parent involvement and how you do these things that are recognized as best practices, and that's how we adjudicate the hundreds of applications we get for funding.