We will provide youth in care outside the NWT and youth in care within the NWT to Standing Committee on Social Programs.

The child and family services committees across the territory, the main thing we are doing different is we’ve hired a coordinator, who starts this month, who will be going to the communities. We’ve had our staff going into the communities and right now we’re trying to get the one committee that was working during our review of this child and family services committee in Fort McPherson. We feel that is going to start up again. We are fairly enthusiastic about the results when we had our staff member go into McPherson to work with them. This coordinator is going to be working in the child and family services and our target will be the five additional to the Fort McPherson. We’d like to do five additional. If possible, we’re going to try to do as many as possible.

We have the task of dealing with health and social services authorities at the regional level and we have advised them that we are interested in seeing those child and family services committees getting off the ground as soon as possible. So there may be more than five, but our target is five at this time.