The settlement services that CIC provides are ongoing. It's a program that the government invests $600 million in per year across the country.
The people who are eligible are generally permanent residents. Citizens are not eligible, but permanent residents and refugees are eligible for the program. There's a huge range of different projects, and many of them are focused on supports for immigrant women.
There are some courses given just to women and some of them are very focused specifically on violence against women. Most of these services are through grants and contributions funding, so most of them are provided through non-governmental organizations across the country. Some of them also provide economic supports for immigrant women so that they have more economic independence, which helps obviously with situations of violence as well.