Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  The Public Health Agency of Canada has the lead, but Status of Women Canada, Justice Canada, Public Safety, ourselves...it's a multiplicity of departments.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Certainly, we're building an action plan right now for forward planning with a number of elements on it. We are doing a scan, and Public Health could probably speak to this better than I can in terms of taking stock of what programs are available to assist families and women and

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Just off the top of my head, we fund the National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence, which is a network for the 41 shelter directors. I think they have a lot of expertise and reflection on what works and what is not working in those 41 shelters. I would suggest certainly

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I can answer on behalf of AANDC. Last year we completed an evaluation of our family violence prevention program, and that is actually available on our website. It looks at the effectiveness of our programming in the 41 shelters, as well as our prevention programming, and it made

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Normally we hire external firms to do the evaluation for us. They put together surveys. They go out and survey shelter directors and others in the community. It's an evaluation. It's not done by staff of the department. So that is available. It looks at how our program performed

Human Resources committee  In terms of what we've learned and what we know are some of the expectations of first nations communities, it would be being able to access skills training and development close to home or in their home communities, especially when they have other barriers that may not allow them

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure what you're referring to, because you started with Attawapiskat. If you're talking about education and investments in education, we are looking across all of the jurisdictions to do comparisons between first nations education and how provinces fund the education.

Human Resources committee  I would have to get back to you on that. I don't have the details.

Human Resources committee  I can't answer in terms of reductions. I can certainly say that our intention in looking at K-to-12 education is to get to comparable outcomes and good outcomes on reserve. There are a number of ways we can do that, including partnerships with provinces and with first nations. We

Human Resources committee  I have to say I don't have exact information on work that's being done to deal with that issue. I do know we have the work of the K-to-12 panel that has been going across the country and listening to communities and experts in education on how to better deliver K-to-12. I would e

Human Resources committee  I'm not an expert in the education side of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, but I believe we could certainly find out whether some of our youth employment strategy initiatives that are focused on that age group support those kinds of experiences for later secon

Human Resources committee  We are looking at comparability in funding as well as in programming efforts. We want children on reserve to be able to move back and forth between provincial schools and on-reserve schools so that they get the same education they would get off reserve. We are looking--

Human Resources committee  Those cases can arise. What I am pointing to is that children may go to school on reserve and then move or be relocated or attend off reserve. We want them to have the same level of education so that as they move to a provincial school they can be integrated into the same grade l

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure of the exact date, but my understanding is that it is ready to become available in the next couple of months.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. On the question of closing the funding gap for K-to-12, one of the things that our department has discovered is the issue of fair and equitable funding for first nations schools. This is one of the improvements we need to make, along with moving towards comparability