If you're familiar with Toronto, you will know that 31 Division in the Jane and Finch area has the highest crime rate in Canada. We are working with the police and we are having an event called “Make your future“. We had one event already, and we're having another in April. It's an outreach to all the high schools. They're targeting the kids who are on the cusp of dropping out—not the kids who are going to university and college and have their act together. It's the kids who are at risk of dropping out. Then they have no other option and they join a gang or whatever.
We're working with that community and with the police. It's not just the construction trades. The Armed Forces are exhibiting. The police are exhibiting. Local businesses that are hiring are exhibiting. There's going to be about a thousand kids. We want to have it twice a year.
There's another program called Hammer Heads. They recruit from high-risk neighbourhoods in Toronto. They take about 15 to 20 per block. They go to 12 union training centres. They spend a week at each one. At the end of a 24-week period, they have all the records of training for all the safety equipment. They can use the swing stage, the scissor lift, etc. They can work at heights. The unions will then say...for example, Sprinkler Fitters will say, “I need five people.” The painters might say, “I need six,” and they get dispatched to them.
It's highly successful. They have a retention rate of over 90% after five years. They've tracked the graduates. Guys are buying cars and houses. These are all people from those communities who were high-risk.