6      Next Steps Challenges Some of the challenges brought up at the workshop include: The issue of confidentiality and how that might impact on creating a holistic, collaborative response. Service providers may feel that they are breaching the confidentiality of their client in consulting with a service provider from another organization. There are some people, because of their personal experience or attitude towards women or woman abuse, who simply shouldn't work with abused women. As always, there are time and financial constraints in implementing these policies. Next Steps In a discussion of next steps, the workshop participants created a list: attempt to change patterns by focussing on early intervention: empower mothers and provide them with tools take a holistic, collaborative approach to responding to woman abuse place more emphasis on adult survivors, senior women and women with disabilities create advocacy positions to assist women to access services and make choices community education (social marketing approach) training develop provincial policy on abuse develop educational materials for service providers about other services available develop policies re: follow-up responses develop plain language policies with step-by-step revisit and update existing policies examine the difference between policy and practice identify the needs of victims of family violence do economic case studies - analysis of short term and long term costs overcome the issue of confidentiality so that systems cannot hide behind it develop regional, expert teams to help problem solve don't accept the status quo of organizational structure simply because "that's the way it is"