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Thank you, Madam Chair. I will have the deputy minister respond to that.
We have asked the Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority to work with the community through what we refer to as a Primary Care Team. Included in that is the home care workers, and to re-evaluate the needs in both of those communities of both Tsiigehtchic and McPherson to see if they can provide home care to the residents that need home care. I think if we’re successful in building in this elders daycare, it will be the home support workers that will be working with the adults in Fort McPherson. I think the authority would have to increase the amount of home support workers that...
There’s no target at this time. We don’t know. We know that a couple of authorities have used nurse practitioners and are very interested in building that flexibility into their funding, but we don’t have a target percent at this time.
We plan on expanding some of the work in wellness. One of the things we are hoping to do is work with community organizations or Aboriginal governments within the communities to help us develop these plans, so it would not be just one individual that is developing all of the plans, but we’ll try to work with the Aboriginal groups, Tlicho Government, as an example, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and so on. We’re going to be engaging the groups when we develop the wellness plans across the territory.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m pleased to recognize Louise Bradley, president and CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada; Geoff Couldrey, executive vice-president of the Mental Health Commission of Canada; Michelle McLean, vice-president of public affairs of the Mental Health Commission of Canada; and Dana Heide, associate deputy minister of Health and Social Services.
My understanding is that we are fairly average with that. There are a couple of jurisdictions across the country that have agreed to increase the percentage of their budget towards prevention and promotion and we are trying to do the same as well.
Going back to the Old Crow treatment, we are prepared to relook at the principles, re-examine the principles of that treatment. A good point, you could look at it from the perspective that 25 percent is maybe better than some of the rates that we have been achieving. I apologize for that. We will look at the principles of that again.
We also have the Matrix program that we’re looking at in Fort Smith. We found that had a fairly good success rate, so we’re prepared to look at that.
On the Cindy Blackstock lawsuit, we don’t have an update, but we can get an update and provide a written update to...
Thank you, Madam Chair. That is the reallocation of funding between the authorities that saw the move from the 2011-2012 Main Estimates to the revised, so that it went up in the hospitals because that’s where the deficits were. The reallocation from the other health and social services authorities and then we’re back on budget from back to the main estimates compared to the other main estimates there’s a slight increase.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m going to have the deputy minister provide a response to that.
Madam Chair, it’s a sunsetting of a strategic initiative. I believe it was the family violence and also the transfer of the Homeless Fund to the NWT Housing Corporation from the Department of Health and Social Services. However, we do have some federal funding. I can have the deputy minister provide detail on the federal funding.