Status of Women committee  I was nodding along. That's what I hear a lot as well from young people. We don't have super young children, but we have youth. A lot of them are questioning whether they're going to have the ability to have children and whether it's going to be a world that will be sustainable for them to have that.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. This is a big problem that we see often. We have a youth program within the Royal. This is happening across the city, not just within the Royal. When a young person turns 18, they are now aged out of the program. Then they have to go all the way back to the start of the race line to try to get back into services that are appropriate for them.

Status of Women committee  There are some things that can be standardized. I understand that different provinces and territories may have different communities and different needs, so I don't want to take away from the fact that we do need to differentiate in different places, but there are some national standards that we could look to, again coming back to that protected funding, where we could have a national standard that there's so much funding for peer support going into Canada, and there's so much funding that's allotted to women and young girls.

Status of Women committee  I'm not really familiar with the work, but the description that you just gave I would absolutely support. Anything that, again, is going back to those preventative measures is really going to save dollars down the road, but it's also going to save a lot of crises and internal conflict for the women and young girls.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. My name is Krystal-Jyl Thomas. I am a social worker focusing on the field of mental health, psychotherapy and family intervention services. Joining me today for the question and answer period is my colleague Michelle Jackson-Brown, also a social worker and peer support worker, focusing on mental health, perinatal and peer support services.