Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm Jeannine Adams, the CEO of ReTrain Canada. ReTrain Canada was founded in 2017. We are a for-profit business, initially created to retrain claimants in the WCB world, or the worker's compensation world. Claimants are rehabilitated physically and psychologically, and then we begin with the career or “voc” rehab. ReTrain has put through over 5,000 students to date, and that number of students each year grows.
We train in technology and helping people negotiate the employment and health processes that they need to go through. We have different types of technology that we train in. We're looking to make sure that people are able to get back to the workforce in a very quick way, so all of our courses are incredibly focused. Again, because we basically started our business working with people who had challenges in terms of psychological or physiological concerns, our staff are able to work with people on dealing with those and how they fit into employment.
Our education program was built entirely online. It is live leader-led. That means we're creating training environments like the one we're in right now. It's also very engaging, which is also like this. The instructors are people who have worked in the industries that they're training on.
The types of training that we offer are ones that are very engaging with employers, so we are always on the leading edge. For things like cybersecurity, we are the leader in Alberta for training cybersecurity people. Each year, we put through over 200 students. We also have a fintech program, which people can barely finish before they're employed. We teach people about things like NFTs and cryptocurrency, and we go into the health and wellness sphere as well.
All of our courses are accredited through us. We have microcredentials and then overarching credentials of those. From an industry perspective, employers are starting to understand and value them. Those credentials give people an opportunity to grow and make sure they're recognized.
In terms of the things that we have dealt with, whether it's somebody who's a veteran or someone who has been injured at work, we have a number of students who are considered “hostile-resistant”, because they're in a situation where they do not embrace the changes that have happened to them, so we work with them to move them forward and meet them where they are.
We go through assessment processes with them as well, so that we know from a technology perspective...sometimes it's basic computing that they need to start with, and then we move them through that. We don't want to waste time teaching somebody something they already know, so, as I said, we do assessments. We make sure that they understand the training they're going through and the information they have are very transferable, so we look for those transferable skills.
We've had the opportunity to do some work in the past with re-skilling oil and gas workers, so being able to understand those transferable skills is important. Of course, working with someone from the military, it's being able to have them see what those skills are—lots of leadership skills, for example—and how they transfer into the new world.
In terms of the size of ReTrain, our company has nearly 60 staff now. We have a 22,000 square-foot facility in Calgary. We have a sister company that is s01ve Cyber Solutions. That's relevant, because we take people from our cyber-program and give them internships—