As I stated, there is no substantial increase to anything in our budget because it’s, as people have called it, a status quo maintenance kind of budget under our fiscal circumstance.
With respect to suicide prevention work, we are doing some new work under this initiative. We have obtained some funding with the Mental Health Commission, which is a body set up nationally, and we’ve been getting some money for the last couple of years. This year we will be flowing $460,000 in federal funding for community-based suicide prevention projects. One of the initiatives that we are embarking on is to set up an NWT Suicide Prevention Steering Committee. This committee will be made up of the Department of Health and Social Services, Education, Culture and Employment, MACA, Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority, Canadian Mental Health Association, and the national program Graduates and Trainers on Suicide Prevention, as well as Dene and Inuvialuit
community members. We are working also on, they call it Mental Health First Aid: Training the Trainers for the communities. That’s the initiative that we’re working on. We have also always had some programs under the National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training, called ASIST, and those programs have been held in some of the communities as well. There’s not a substantial increase in the amount of money, but we are working on some initiatives to address this issue.