Resource Committee — Department of Health, or is it in here? MS DUNDERDALE: It comes under 2.7.01.; all of the headings the whole way down through all include initiatives for VPI. It is all embedded in those headings. MS JONES: Okay. Today you were talking about the numbers or the percentage of violence against women has not gone down. MS DUNDERDALE: It has not gone down, no. MS JONES: How many years has the campaign been ongoing now? MS DUNDERDALE: Which campaign? MS JONES: The Violence Prevention Initiative campaign. MS DUNDERDALE: We are coming into our sixth year now fifth year. MS JONES: Okay, five years. Has there been any review of the program or MS DUNDERDALE: There will be. MS JONES: - the initiatives to see if it is working or not working, or maybe has no impact on the fact that the stats have not gone down. I am not saying it is not effective, I am just wondering if there has been any evaluation of it. MS DUNDERDALE: There will be now. This is a six-year initiative, and so the whole evaluation will begin next year. MS JONES: Can you provide us with the numbers for the last five years the statistics? MS DUNDERDALE: On violence? MS JONES: Yes. MS DUNDERDALE: Absolutely. MS JONES: Okay. One of the questions that come up often from the women's centres - that, of course, you guys would fund and do all kinds of work - is with regard to affordable housing. Is this something that the Women's Policy Office has looked at in terms of what is an acceptable strategy to try to approach affordable housing for women in the Province, especially women who live in poverty and violent situations that they need housing on an emergency basis and so on? MS DUNDERDALE: Absolutely. The Women's Policy Office is engaged with the women's centres, first of all. In terms of relaying that information back, not only to me, as minister, we work then particularly with the Department of Transportation and Works who is responsible for Newfoundland and Labrador Housing. In this year's Budget

2010-05-17

Newfoundland and Labrador — Committees

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