Youth are counselled also with community counselling programs. We have about $6 million in the Community Counselling Program across the territory, and they counsel adults and youth alike.

As far as actual youth facility infrastructure or building for youth treatment facilities, the department hasn’t looked at that closely. We do know that the treatment of youth in a facility environment or in a treatment centre, the numbers for the territory are very low. I think we’ve treated 12 youth in three fiscal years, the past three fiscal years, because the majority of situations with youth are that they must volunteer to go to treatment in order to make this viable. Most youth that do go to treatment are forced into treatment. Unlike adults, you don’t usually come out and say that they have an issue, an addiction issue or other types of issues. Nats’ejee K’eh is the treatment centre for adults. We actually thought about looking at that facility and saying maybe, if there can be one program per year or something, working with Health Canada on developing a youth treatment program within that building. Right now the past fiscal year Nats’ejee K’eh ran nine different programs for adults. I think five treatment programs for female and five for male. We’re looking at if that is the right

mix and if there would be a requirement for an actual one of those programs to be a youth treatment program within that facility and Nats’ejee K’eh will work with Health Canada to develop an actual treatment program for youth.