Status of Women committee  Our focus is on all Canadians. In the context of aboriginal peoples, we work off reserve to complement the work that our Health Canada colleagues do on reserve.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, we do. Through our three children's programs, specifically the community action program for children, the Canada prenatal nutrition program, and the aboriginal head start in urban and northern communities program, we're focusing on supporting local community-based nee

Status of Women committee  It's families, yes.

Status of Women committee  —and ensure that you get some samples from the children's program. Just on that point, from a public health perspective the evidence shows that the earlier you start to intervene in at-risk families and children, the better. That's why these children's programs are working so fa

Status of Women committee  Let me tell you about one of our children's programs that is offered in Toronto. It is called Connections. The program in Toronto that runs this is called Breaking the Cycle. Under that program they have put in place opportunity for women experiencing violence to receive services

Status of Women committee  I'd like to take a look at that, because I want to give you the best programs we have in terms of relevance to what you're doing in this study. If you don't mind, I'll take that back—

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely. The Canadian Best Practices Portal is a mechanism we use at the Public Health Agency of Canada to fulfill our mandate in sharing what we know about the evidence on best practices. We receive submissions from organizations both nationally and internationally to ha

Status of Women committee  Through the public health community, we make the portal well known through that network. We rely on our public health colleagues to spread the word beyond to others. We also interact with academic institutions. They're almost always involved in some way in the evaluation of these

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you for the invitation to address this Committee about best practices in education programs, social programs and policies in Canada that prevent violence against women. Violence against women is a significant public health issue affecting