Yes, thank you, for your questions. So I understand there is a shelter for men in Fort Good Hope. I'm not sure if it's only for people in Fort Good Hope. And that would be a long way to go from -- for someone in Fort Smith.
A more feasible solution for men who are experiencing violence may be to apply for an emergency protection order. So that's where you engage a justice of the peace to secure your access to your house and to keep the abuser out of the house. And so that's one possibility that would provide a local solution where the person being abused doesn't have to go to another community for services. So I just want to put that on your radar as a possibility.
The YWCA in Yellowknife offers a program for children who witness violence. It helps them to process the trauma that they've experienced as a result of being in a situation where family violence has occurred and how to be better -- better prepared to deal with their own anger and issues as they -- as they grow up. I don't think that that's a school-based program. I think it's a community-based program. I feel certain that the YWCA would be more than willing to share their learning of this -- it was originally called Project Child Recovery, that they would be willing to share their learnings from that. So they do it now as an afterschool club called Dudes Club, and the -- it's boys. And they go once a week and talk about -- about their issues related to their own lives and how to live a healthy life.
The On the Land Program is probably undersubscribed because the money is divided among the Indigenous governments, and so if Indigenous governments don't take up their share then the money doesn't get spent.
I'm well aware of the relationship between Salt River First Nation and Poundmakers, and I've mentioned it in other context to Indigenous governments that are looking at On the Land programming as one possibility to provide the programming part of the On the Land Healing Program, that, you know, beyond the benefits of being on the land and living in a more traditional way, that there also be -- there can also be a program that is specifically oriented to getting people into treatment, which I understand is what happened at Salt River, to help families heal, and to help people when they return from treatment to maintain their wellness and sobriety. So I'm assuming that if people are listening to us talk and they're interested in that program, they could contact the Salt River First Nation for more information. Thank you.