Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan that came out from the Department of Health and Social Services moves a long way to supporting the recommendations that are in the Minister’s Forum.

We do have community counsellors in most of the communities in the Northwest Territories who can provide direct counselling, whether its addictions related or whether its mental health related. There’s also NWT Helpline that we strongly encourage people to call if they’re unable to talk to anybody else. In the communities they’d have nurses. The nurses are also there to provide referral services to individuals who are seeking addictions treatment or have other mental health issues that they’d wish to address. They can certainly get referrals to other practitioners throughout the Northwest Territories right from their communities.

So there are a number of things that are available within the communities themselves. We also have programs in the schools like the Talking About Mental Illness, we’ve got the promotion campaigns that are out there, the Feel Real Radio which is transmitted everywhere that CKLB transmits, encouraging people and youth to talk about mental health issues as well. Thank you.