One of the things that we have found, and we have for a number of years now, is first nations girls coming to the WISEST program—the one I was talking about where they come and spend six weeks at the university—from a distance are quite hard for us to keep in touch with and to continue to mentor. For example, we had one young woman from Fort Good Hope, which is about 200 miles south of Inuvik on the Mackenzie, and when she went back to her school, it was quite hard for us to keep in touch.
When the girls are here, they have that group of 60 as a community, and when many of them from the city go back to their schools, there are two or three of them who have had the same experience. But girls from the first nations communities going back are usually the only girl who has come from the community, and it's hard to go on providing the mentorship and support that encourage them to continue. We find it more difficult to make sure that they continue post-secondary training after grade 12, either in the trades or at the university. That's a difficult one.