Tom Beaulieu

Thank you. I view success as a change in life, a complete change in lifestyle of individuals from using or consuming to not using or consuming, but also change other parts of their life as well. We can do that. We can go and try to determine what we consider to be success for the facilities that we’ve engaged in and will be in a contractual arrangement until March 31, 2014.

We can also go back to the records and maybe look at some success rates at Nats’ejee K’eh to see what type of rates they felt were success rates. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, that thought hasn’t been contemplated at this time. Thank you.

I guess, in general, there could be a treatment centre down south that we are in a contractual relationship with that may be able to address more complex types of treatment. It could be dealing with harder drugs. There could be a treatment centre down south that could treat alcohol. There could be a treatment facility that would deal with a lot of the traditional and cultural type of treatment. And there’s a treatment facility down south that may be able to address women’s treatment. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The building will be secured by Public Works. There may be a couple of individuals that are continuing to work around the building. However, the plan, as I relayed to Chief Fabian, was to get together with the council and also ask if he had any issue with engaging the Stanton Elders Council to work with us on future use of that building. I don’t know what the future use of that building would be at this time, but we are consulting with some people to develop some ideas on what we can do with that building. Thank you.

The department has been working on wellness plans. Right now, we are funding the communities to develop wellness plans to do some of this work. We’re also going to use some of the money that we were using in Nats’ejee K’eh to do some of this type of issue. I’m not sure we are going to have all the money to do all of the programs, but the idea, I guess the general idea would be that once the mobile treatment team has gone into a community, then the after-care program will come into play. We’re assuming further on down the road there could be a follow-up mobile treatment. That could be coupled...

Thank you. We had allocated $2.2 million to run Nats’ejee K’eh. So if there’s a treatment program in the Northwest Territories that we consider to be a treatment program that is working well for the community, a treatment program that can retain their staff and that’s attractive to the people of the North, we would put that money into that. So I guess that’s what we’re willing to spend. We’re willing to spend whatever we were spending prior to the Nats’ejee K’eh closure. Thank you.

As the health professionals develop the electronic medical records, when the health professional comes into the home, whether it be a home care nurse or if that senior has gone to the health centre to visit with a doctor or a registered nurse, that electronic medical record is designed to be the basis of the continuum of care. So that individuals who have been given some advice on what to do, or changing medicines or any sort of issues that was in the past where there were some confusing messages coming in from the different types of individuals or nurses that they were dealing with time to...

All indications that we’ve had for mobile treatment are actually what the Member is describing; they are professionals in a certain facility that design their program, their healing program, around going out to the communities rather than bringing people into a centre for residential treatment. They meet them in their own environment. One of the treatment options that we are looking at is where a team of three counsellors are going into a community and work with the community. That was targeted at addressing youth treatment. We found that to be a way where we can treat youth without sending...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member is correct that these are two very serious issues. Crack and crack cocaine have caused all kinds of problems in all of the communities, small communities. Communities are trying to deal with it; people are trying to deal with it in various ways. There is something that an individual can get to a counsellor that we will send individuals for treatment for crack cocaine addictions.

Prescription drugs are a little bit different issue. Prescription drug addiction is a very hidden addiction, so it’s something that’s difficult to bring out into the public. People can...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We will be coming forward with enhanced home care in the next budget session. We have been working on developing enhanced home care. We’re working with the federal government. The federal government is providing us some funding directly for home care as well. It’s part of the overall continuum of care for seniors in the Northwest Territories. We do have a strategy to develop care for seniors and the idea is to maintain people in their own homes as long as possible.