First of all, thank you for being here and for being part of what you did previously. It's really important to have those survivors get that opportunity.
We do outreach. That's a big part of shelter work in Alberta. Outreach becomes something where women don't even have to attend shelter. It doesn't have to be a bricks-and-mortar situation. They can have that person meet them at a coffee shop downtown or somewhere that's available to them.
Outreach does wraparound services. For a woman who is in shelter, usually about halfway through her time in shelter, she'll start to work with an outreach worker to transition her out. That can be to help her with food security, housing, court, getting her kids into school—all of the life skills she might need. At the same time, we offer that to those who aren't in shelters. If they self-present that they need that support, we do that as well.
It is funded in a different model. We're even seeing in Alberta that there's a shift in that funding. That's part of public education as well. More funding in that area, I think, would be good, because what happens a lot of times is that it's just the work that shelters are doing off the side of their desks. They're trying to run an emergency shelter at the same time, and they're also trying to support those women through outreach. We should be looking at the full funding model as a whole and funding them as two separate things, because they are serving two very different purposes.