Status of Women committee  I think for them just to be able to recognize that it's wrong, and for stuff that we may have seen intergenerationally and that some of us may have been told to just brush under the rug, we have to use our voice and have to put a stop to it, because it is wrong.

Status of Women committee  I think right now what I could just really speak to is something that's very fresh and very current that happened last week with some of the young adults who were 17 and 18. They came back the next week—because it's a 12-week course that we run with them—and actually said they had started talking to their partners, apologizing for the way they'd treated them and were trying to discuss ways, which they learned from the UMatter program, on how to better their relationships.

Status of Women committee  I think right now the kids are so tech savvy, they teach us all of the positive ways and they also know the negative ways of social media. From the earliest age of nine up to, like I said earlier, the later stages in their early twenties [Technical difficulty—Editor]. What have we done?

Status of Women committee  One of the key things about the UMatter program is that when we go to do these presentations, we're not only presenting to the youth, but also to the adults in charge of these different programs or these different classes for them to observe what they're doing so that in the future, they can continue bringing teen dating violence awareness to the youth.

Status of Women committee  If we could have this program run all across Canada in every major city and even in the smaller communities, I totally recommend it. It helps, right? Having that shared passed-down knowledge will hopefully help change the way things have been from the historical harms we've had to encounter as first nations people.

Status of Women committee  I think it will help a lot. We have those historical harms or blood traumas that they referred to from our past generations, which we feel as indigenous people. Having the youth learn these traditions that we lack living here in the cities makes a huge difference. I've seen it.

Status of Women committee  Hi there. Thank you for being so intrigued. I apologize for the lack of information earlier. My program is Ka Ni Kanichihk Incorporation in central Winnipeg. We run various programs out of our organization that deal with the youth and with young adults. The youngest youth we've presented to has been nine years old, and the oldest youths we've presented to have been up to, I believe, the age of 26.

Status of Women committee  It's not me directly. However, have I used some of my past traumas as examples with the youth? Yes, of course I have. Has the elder I work with used her past traumas as well? Yes, she has. This is how our inner-city youth, our urban indigenous youth, are able to relate to us. They're able to relate to their own families with some of their horrific passed-down traumas they've had to deal with as well.

Status of Women committee  Hi there. The UMatter program focuses on teen dating violence prevention, adding the indigenous teachings to it to bring that awareness to them. So far, it has been going very well, having the elder do the teachings for the youth and the young adults. It has been very beneficial.