Status of Women committee  End violence by preventing violence.

Status of Women committee  Yes. There's so much to think about, to ponder, and to get across, but in terms of the aboriginal population--the urban aboriginal population--we do need access to cultural teachings. I come from a community where my language is on the endangered list of becoming extinct, so what

Status of Women committee  One of the reasons that comes to mind is class. Vancouver is divided into west and east. On the west side, houses are a lot bigger and a lot more expensive, and on the east side they're smaller and there are working-class families, although it's harder to live in the east end the

Status of Women committee  Yes, a quick one.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. One of the things is being accountable systemically as well, thinking about Bill C-31 and all these things that define status and define what women are in terms of all those issues that come to mind. One thing that also comes to mind is that my wife has worked with

Status of Women committee  That's true, finding your own self-esteem, but also finding it within the community, so reaching out to a community, whether it's a cultural thing.... Like I said, we gather the men together to go to a sweat lodge and there we bond as men, or we sing together as men. We're findin

Status of Women committee  I would agree with everyone along the line. Probably my top three are all there. I would reinforce the idea of providing resources for aboriginal men. A lot of them who are in prison have been abusive, and when they get out they're not provided any resources to become healthy a

Status of Women committee  Speaking as an aboriginal male myself, I didn't go through a lot of the traditional high schools that a lot of other people go through, so a lot of those resources wouldn't have been available to me, I guess, if I were going through high school. We do find that a lot of the vio

Status of Women committee  I guess one of the best ways to end violence is to prevent it in the first place. One of the things within the Warriors is recognizing the patterns that we have in violence, and a lot of times that comes down to an emotional situation. We provide tools to recognize that, to recog

Status of Women committee  I don't have all the figures available, but we do have a lot of men coming to the program who stay on for a number of years, even though they feel they've stopped the violence, but they want to help younger people. So to say that the success rate is at a certain level, we'd have

Status of Women committee  Yes, we actually have a lot of men and women from other cultural groups as well. We also help people who are in same-sex partnerships. The basis of Warriors is respect, respecting the family, respecting the traditions and beliefs of other people. So we include all of that in th

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  All right. Thank you for having me. Huy chexw a, ha7lh kwakwayel. Welcome. I sit on the board of directors for Warriors Against Violence. Actually, I got wrangled into this at the last minute, so please bear with me: I might not have all the facts on hand. Warriors Against V