Status of Women committee  We have day programming. We have a lot of program calendars. We have a great website, if you ever want to check it out. We start with every stage of life, from the children to the teenagers to the adults to the grandmothers. We offer programs and services for every stage of life.

Status of Women committee  I would say there are women who come from all regions of the country. I come from Manitoba. Because there's a lot of violence in Winnipeg, a lot of women are migrating to Ottawa, because this is a safe place for them to start their healing journeys. We do find a lot of women comi

Status of Women committee  We're about a $2 million agency, but we have multiple grants. We must have at least 13 grants in place. They are all program funding grants, so it's hard to keep going all the time. But, yes, we're a multi-funded agency, like most agencies.

Status of Women committee  Recently the Aboriginal Healing Foundation closed, so we're feeling the impacts of all of those programs and services that were set up after the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. We've had to lay off some people, and programs and services have been scaled down. That's the c

Status of Women committee  We had to lay off two people.

Status of Women committee  At our centre we employ about 40 women.

Status of Women committee  Our two spirit program is one that's going to be ending in a month. So that's one program. We've modified our programs and have had to get funding from other places to keep them going. But we do need more counsellors; we absolutely need them, because there are a lot women suffer

Status of Women committee  Sorry, I can't understand that at all.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. It's an honour to be here as a representative of the aboriginal women and children who are served by Minwaashin Lodge and to give a voice to the countless urban first nations, Métis, and Inuit women who are living with the reality