Tom Beaulieu

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.

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, 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.

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...

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.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m going to have the deputy minister provide a response to that.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In the 33 communities we have 73 locations using it but we could expand the use of this technology. There is room to expand the use of this technology, for sure.

That is not likely. We have evaluated the program and the success rate is low. Only three individuals that had attended the treatment were still sober after 12 months.

Madam Chair, it is the same item. Residential care children southern placement is the majority of this increase.

We are trying to plan. We don’t think that this is something… We recognize there are some technical aspects, legislative aspects to what the Member is asking. What we need to do is we need to plan for it. We want to make sure that we are doing this right. Our responsibility is fairly clear, that if we have individuals that are prepared to divert from… If the court is going to divert an individual to some counselling, to take him out on the land, to deal with him in a different manner, keep him with the family, do the various things that are needed, then we do have the programs in place.

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