Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have a host of client navigators across the territory that work in small communities. They work in regional centres. And they work in Yellowknife. And these client navigators work closely with career development officers. They have, of course, a very intimate knowledge of student financial assistance, which also falls under the income security division. And so these pathways to employment, pathways to entrepreneurship, they are absolutely things that these individuals are trained to support clients through. And so whether it is somebody wanting to access training programs, whether they are wanting to go into entrepreneurship that, is something that with ITI, there is a definite really nice marriage that can happen there going forward so that people are supported in order to be able to pursue what their goals are. I think one of the changes that has happened here between going from having productive choices to not having productive choices is an acknowledgement that not everybody fits within the themed boxes that productive choices were. Productive choices forced somebody to kind of pick something from a list that maybe wasn't what they wanted to do. And what this is acknowledging is saying okay, we all have goals and we all have dreams and they don't have to fit into a box, but let's set you up with people who can help walk you through what it is that you want to do and to acknowledge or identify what that path is and how to get there. So we've got the client navigators, we've got the career development officers. We also have economic development officers over in ITI. Especially when you're talking about, you know, regional centres, a lot of these people already know one another. We've got funding opportunities within SFA, funding opportunities within ITI and other departments. We also have the ability to also set people up with apprenticeships as well or with training opportunities. There's, for example, fundamentals through Aurora College, which is an absolutely great program, and then there's also SNAP opportunities too. Thank you.
Caitlin Cleveland on Question 236-20(1): Income Assistance Statistics
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