Absolutely. Take Our Kids to Work is a great example of the whole-of-society approach that I was describing in my opening statement. It requires little government investment and involves a number of non-profit and private sector partnerships that allow for companies to get students into their spaces. Those students have actually told us through our research that Take Our Kids to Work catalyzes a career exploration journey and opens doors to all sorts of career exploration opportunities that they wouldn't have had otherwise.
What we're hearing is this: How can we make Take Our Kids to Work year-round, and how can we broaden it beyond grade 9 as a way to try to address some of the challenges that are happening with youth employment right now? Some of those innovations include, again, private sector and non-profit partnerships where we place some of these students, once they have a career interest in an organization, into paid co-op and paid work-integrated learning experiences that allow them to take what they discovered from Take Our Kids to Work and take it further.
