Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all our witnesses for joining us today. Thank you for the work you do to help young people get the experience they need to transition into the workforce with experience and a bit more knowledge about a specific career they may choose.
Ms. Gillespie, when you talked at the beginning, I really appreciated the fact that a lot of your emphasis was on the development of young people by going through the program. Your testimony seemed to focus on young people and how the program could respond to them. The five recommendations you made, like everyone else, spoke to how to improve the program in the administration and pieces like that, but they did really position it around young people.
You mentioned mental health and sick days. Do you have any statistics or numbers with regard to what that looks like for an organization like yours? How many would be required?
For the second part of that question, during the COVID pandemic, there were a lot of challenges for young people. If this program was in operation during the summer, during that time period, did you see that it actually contributed even more so to the well-being of young people, in your experience?