Let me just say that we've been quite careful in doing our program, studying it, and evaluating it over the last 10 years, and we're now in a position where we have received money to develop increased capacity by training more people to deliver this program. My answer is, yes, it could be, but it has to be the kind of program where people would be trained. I think that personally I would feel some responsibility in training them, supervising them, and being very careful that they are the right people.
Then they could go to Nova Scotia in teams--we've had requests from Nova Scotia and from Ontario--and they would be funded to go, because this requires high expertise. This program can never be “manualized”. Some programs and treatment can be: there's a manual and you can give it to workers in another city to do it. This requires a lot of sensitivity to the existing symptoms of trauma. We are trained in that and I train my people to do that.
So the answer is yes. We could send teams out to the various regions of Canada, and then link to the locals to join in at that time, and they would carry on with the support following the delivery of the program. That would be one of my goals. I'd like to see that happen so I really appreciate the suggestion.
One of the things I wanted to say is that I think people were critical of our program at first, and I think...[Technical Difficulty--Editor]...guys would say, “This is great, it's been three months, I'm okay now”. Then they would disappear. No, we don't do that any longer. They need to be followed up. I think it can be delivered, but we have to be responsible for training the workers in this profession. Running groups of traumatized men and women--and in our case, it's mostly men--is very complex work. You need to have a lot of skills and I'd feel more confident knowing they were well supervised.