Ms. Margaret Buist at the Status of Women Committee

On January 30th, 2018. See this statement in context.

January 30th, 2018 / 4:05 p.m.

Director General, Children and Families Branch, Education and Social Development Programs and Partnerships Sector, Department of Indigenous Services, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development

Margaret Buist

I can talk to you a little bit about our family violence prevention programming.

We have significant family violence prevention programming, and we also have shelter funding on reserve for both the construction and the operation of shelters. As I said earlier, the family violence prevention programming is proposal-based. We fund about 300 proposals across the country annually, to the tune of about $38 million. We also fund the operation of 41 shelters, and we're funding the building of five more shelters. Around those shelters there's also prevention programming and operations and counselling, and a suite of services are available for women and their children who've experienced violence.

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