Mr. Speaker, when this team does training, they do use the Indigenous people from wherever they are doing the training. The MLAs were able to take this training and the senior management took this training within the government. And so they do -- as the MLAs may be -- like, remember at the beginning after our first Assembly that there are Indigenous -- it is led by Northerners, that training, Indigenous Northerners, and they do have people coming in and doing presentations, adding to the work that they do. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister for Health and Social Services. Final supplementary. Member from Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you, Minister. One thing I keep thinking about is our young people in our communities that we have drugs and alcohol that is hitting home to our young people but there's limited in terms of addiction services they could go to other than going south. Is there a program or is there part of your plan going forward to look at how we're going to address this issue for our young people here in the Northwest Territories? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, with the Community Wellness and Addiction Recovery Fund, there is still funds available in there for communities to apply on. So I would say to have your -- like, to reach back out to the communities that you represent to see if they've applied on this fund. I can send you the information. Those -- they could create an on the land or a community program for the youth or any community member in their community. For youth addiction programs, we currently piloted a couple of programs. I can get more details to that to the Member for youth treatment, on the land treatment within the territory. For adults, we still continue to be able to send those who need facility-based treatment out. So those options are still available. But I can provide him a list of all of the different options to the Member. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of Health and Social Services. Oral questions. Member from Deh Cho.

Deh Cho. Minister of Health and Social Services.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the community counselling program provides mental health supports to all residents in the Northwest Territories, including children and youth. They also help facilitate referrals to more specialized service, including access to facility-based treatment. There's also, again, like I mentioned just previously, the Community Wellness and Addiction Recovery Fund that is something that the government does provide a fund so Indigenous groups can access to create their own community-based, on the land, cultural, Indigenous-based programming within their community. And then, again, the Community Suicide Prevention Fund. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, how are services for addictions and trauma being measured and evaluated and what are the statistics on these programs? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we collect data, both on the community counselling programs and the facility-based addiction treatment programs, but I don't have the specific details of both. Last year, I think this was about 200 NWT residents that accessed facility-based addictions treatment. The community counselling program and facility-based addiction treatment programs have performance monitoring framework in place which outlines data and indicating reporting requirements. The department also completes quality assurance audits of the community counselling programs delivered across the Northwest Territories and are planning for their audit to begin November 2024. And the Department of Health and Social Services also administers biannual surveys for residents. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister mentioned funding earlier. How much of this funding has been distributed to the communities in the Deh Cho riding? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Community Wellness and Recovery Fund, there has been $573,000 to the Deh Cho First Nation which include -- including in that is KFN. The amount -- yes, so split between those two. And then there's the Community Suicide Prevention Fund which there's another additional $185,206 to Chief Sunrise, K'atlodeeche First Nation, DFFN. So all together, those three groups and KFN received $185,000. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister of Health and Social Services. Final supplementary. From the Deh Cho.

Oral questions. Member from Monfwi.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I hope he will answer my questions, for Minister of MACA. So can the Minister explain what money MACA provides for training first responders in small communities? Thank you.

Member from Monfwi. Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't know the actual amount, and I can get that for the Member. But we do have a fund available for first responder training that is eligible for communities that apply for it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So how do communities go about applying for these fundings, especially those without first responders? I have three communities. There's Whati, Gameti, Wekweeti, and I heard of other small communities that don't have first responder. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would suggest that the community checks with their local fire department to see if it's required or if they want it, and then that their community government reaches out to the regional superintendent in order to get the process going to see if we can get the training or the funds to them. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Well, one of the question that was that what is the criteria for some of these -- you know, I'm sure there is a criteria for community governments to apply. But I would like to ask another question because maybe I will do a written questions to some of the stuff that -- I have lots here but I can't -- some of them will go on written, written questions. Yeah, so I can -- I only have four, and then I have second set of questions --

Thank you, Member from Monfwi.

Okay. So maybe he can answer this too as well. Paramedics, because they provide money. They provide money to train. So paramedics in the NWT. So are paramedics in the territory supplied with naloxone kit to administer on site during an emergency?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That there would be a lot of detail behind how a community operates their emergency services, if they had one. Depending on the type of service they would have in their community, you know, basically as even as a first-aider, even as a lay responder you would be eligible or trained -- eligible to be trained to use naloxone kits. So depending on the services, depending on accessibility, but just the old quick search of the interweb here I was able to find out that in the Tlicho region there are four spots where you could get naloxone kits through using our wonderful GNWT websites. Behchoko, you can go to the health centre. Gameti, the health centre. Wekweeti, you can go to the health cabin. And Whati, you can go to the health centre to access the naloxone kits for first responders. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Final supplementary. Member from Monfwi.

I'm happy with the response because he's -- but I'm kind of worried about other communities that don't have, you know, paramedics or -- paramedics or first responders. So this is -- 9-1-1 is MACA responsibility so I'm going to ask this. So what is the average ambulance response time in Yellowknife currently? Thank you.