Yes, that's a really important question.
A lot of services right now are crisis based, as you were just mentioning, and we need to move into prevention, into methods of prevention.
We've also done a lot of reports on children in care, and that's what children in care also ask for. They want preventative methods to keep families together before removing the child happens, which is the instant reaction: “There's a problem here, so let's remove the child.” There's no prevention in place.
All of these things that aren't being addressed keep getting pushed further and further back into the next generation, and all the problems are just so huge for us to tackle at this point, but we have to start somewhere. For me, it always go back to the work we do, and that's really around TRC call to action 66. It talks about “community-based youth” programming. There's no federal youth programming out there. It just doesn't exist. A lot of these young people have to grasp at micro grants to support large amounts of work, and the weight of all of this on our shoulders is just incredible. Sometimes I think it's a miracle that we're still pushing through, but we're so strong as young women.
Thank you for the question.