Thank you very much for the question.
I'll just give a bit of an overview in terms of the crime prevention program. We have about 67 programs operating across the country today. Of those, there are two specifically targeted toward young children, girls. There are about 27 targeted toward aboriginal, and there are another 21 or 22 that are actually on reserve. They address both men and women, boys and girls. There are different models in place to take on some of those challenges. There are different age groups as well.
I will give you an example of a gender-specific one in Halifax. There is a crime prevention program called SNAP, which focuses specifically on young girls, starting around the age of six and going up to about the age of twelve. It is gender-sensitive. It is focused specifically on the issues these young girls have, everything from aggression and low self-esteem to self-injury and substance abuse, even at that young age. The program model works on behaviours post-going into the program. It works on attitudes. At the same time, it also works with parenting. While the children are going into the program, the parents, typically single moms, are also going into the program during their sessions—at the same time but in separate areas—and they learn together in terms of how to manage behaviours, how to parent, and how to address some of those particular issues.
At the same time, at the other end of the country, we have a crime prevention program that would be gang-related. Again, that would focus on youth, both young boys and young girls. They would look at both risk factors and protective factors, how they got involved in violence and gangs, and then how to remove them from those situations.
Depending on the model that is used by a particular crime prevention program, and depending on what that focus is, it could touch specifically on women and girls, specifically on boys, or on both.