Status of Women committee  Regarding the FASD, for the community wellness programs I have a model that I take into the schools. We have 31 communities in our catchment area, and there's only enough funding to visit 10 to 15 communities in a year. What happens is that I fly up to the communities with my res

Status of Women committee  Coming from the ministry of health promotion.

Status of Women committee  There are actually ten students.

Status of Women committee  I think it's the isolation and the costs of flying these resources to them. It's to cover those costs that everything is so highly priced.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  With regard to your question about the resources for medical treatment, proper food.... There is medical treatment. There is a nursing station in the community. A physician visits once a month for a week, for sure, possibly two weeks. They often utilize the medevacs to bring peop

Status of Women committee  Yes. Some communities have a water treatment centre, and that is available to them. I think Pikangikum does not have running water at this time. Do they? I don't think so. So some communities need to boil their water and it's not safe to drink, and other communities are for

Status of Women committee  And it starts at the top. It starts with the chief and council, and it just falls down. So it really needs to focus in up at the top as well, in the communities, with the chief and council, because of the political pull in the communities, with the family structures--

Status of Women committee  For sure.

Status of Women committee  I think it would be the services available; for sure we're isolated.

Status of Women committee  Than a larger centre, yes.

Status of Women committee  If she's able to bring her children out of the community, for sure she would.

Status of Women committee  What has happened is that due to the lack of housing in the remote communities, this shelter, the one I think you're talking about, has become another building in the community--

Status of Women committee  --for the overcrowded homes. So it's not really just a women's shelter anymore. Now it's like more of a safe house, and it's more about the lack of housing. It provides extra beds. So it's not providing the service to the women, and it's not providing the safety and security to t

Status of Women committee  That's right.