Tom Beaulieu

We are on track to submitting a legislative proposal to amend the act in this fiscal year as a result of that 2011 review. One of the key amendments in the act is to remove some of the barriers that the communities had encountered in the development of child and family services committees.

The department has provided training to the workers but we’re looking for the specifics of that training, or we can also provide, I suppose we can provide that. We can continue to look for it and then provide the information further on down or provide it in writing, one way or the other. But the department has done some training with the social workers.

I’ll have the deputy provide the detailed response.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’re using pilot projects as exactly what they are, pilots. They will end, those projects. The information gathered from those programs, those specific programs would probably continue, but not as pilots. They would continue as the regular course of business that we do in the chronic disease management.

As a result of those projects, we’re going to be able to expand into other programs we’re seeing that we need to address the chronic disease issues. We know that initially when we forge into this work, we do the same thing too. We look at the stats. That’s what we use...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I apologize, but we would like to hear the question on that item again.

Mr. Chairman, I find the questioning rather interesting since the Member indicated it was difficult to separate addictions and mental health and that Nats’ejee K’eh has moved solidly into the area of counselling mental health patients, and that the councillors have a background in mental health.

Knowing that, we looked at the amount of the capacity, I should say, of the individuals, the capacity of the building as they are doing their intakes. The capacity is actually around 46 and dropped to 43 percent, so lower than 50 percent in the last two fiscal years that we’ve looked at.

I met with the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to add, that is why our work on the Integrated Service Delivery Model is so essential. Once we decide what services we need to deliver, we would cost out those services, then build in a funding formula. That would be the most accurate way to build the funding formula. As Ms. Bisaro had indicated, in developing the proper budget, well, this Integrated Service Delivery Model will help us to build a proper budget.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It looks like the Yellowknife homeless day shelter and the Canadian Mental Health Association are the money that may be going to Health and Social Services, but we have agreed to an additional amount of $50,000 because of the withdrawal of BHP. If this is the actual same number, but we don’t understand this to be the same number. Our understanding is that it’s within the overall contribution to YK.

The deputy has just advised me that within the $1.463 million that’s within the department, that a separate contribution agreement aside from the grants and contributions...

Thank you. The authorities will likely be in deficit again at the end of the ‘13-14 fiscal year.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We will be addressing that through our collaboration with Dalhousie psychiatry work that we’re doing. I guess it would be the Dalhousie psychiatric telehealth.