Status of Women committee  I would say that it's more refugee boys, because they have often lived through several years of trauma, torture, and being helpless. Many of them are from single-parent households, usually with a mom. So due to their background, the only way they know how to deal with conflict an

Status of Women committee  It depends on the language. It's five weeks to two months, depending on the language.

Status of Women committee  Ten, but most of them work part-time. We have 5.5 FTEs. As I said, the counselling program gets no money from the federal government. We get City of Ottawa, United Way, and some foundation funding, and it's all because that's deemed as health, which is provincial.

Status of Women committee  It's 5.5 full-time equivalents.

Status of Women committee  Meaning that most of the team works part-time.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. We're also the go-to for clinical training for social workers, interns, and psychologists who want to work with immigrants and refugees.

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  I'm very sorry to say that a lot of immigrant and refugee boys are in trouble with the law. In my work we are often sent to testify or represent parents at the mental health justice committee. In Ottawa, if you're 18 and under and commit something, other than probably severely

Status of Women committee  Fund more research on how the educational system is working with newcomers. For example, in Ottawa only three schools offer classes for English literacy development and English as a second language, so youth have to travel across town for an hour and a half every morning to atten

Status of Women committee  About 25% are refugees.

Status of Women committee  Employment for internationally trained professionals and other adult immigrants is very, very sad. If they do work, immigrant women work part-time, and they're very, very menial jobs. Many of them don't work. Where they come into counselling is after they've been underemployed or

Status of Women committee  It is probably 75%.

Status of Women committee  OCISO doesn't charge people for counselling.

Status of Women committee  That's true.

Status of Women committee  About five years ago the counselling program was actually told by the board that we had to look at social enterprise, and what social enterprise means is that you figure out a way to make some funds to run the existing program by charging people who can pay. The way that works.