I can turn it over to one of my colleagues to provide more, but I can say that one of my first jobs in the Department of Justice was administering that program. You got to go to communities that are in some of the most remote, far-flung, and frankly, desperate situations in all of Canada. You got to see community leaders who have taken on the job actually trying to turn around their communities, and especially their kids, taking those kids whose first contact with the justice system could lead them down the path that we've seen, unfortunately, too many people get on to, and frankly, doing what your parents and my parents did when we were growing up, which was try to get us on another path through a supportive intervention. There are true heroes out there in those communities who are working very hard to try to use their traditional approaches and an alternative approach to diverting, especially first-time, low-level offenders, out of a path and getting them on to a better path.
The other thing I would say is that some of the offenders I encountered when I was in those communities would tell you that doing the ordinary process, and for those who did a bit of jail time, doing some jail time was easier than going home to face mom and dad and the aunts and having to work in the community to restore the harm that they'd done. That was, for them, a much more difficult personal thing to do. When you talked to them a decade later, it still had an impact on them. So many of the people working in these community programs were, in a sense, graduates of the program. The personal impact it had on them turned them around to lead in their own communities.
That's the work that AJS does. We have more information. Don can talk more about the actual impact that the program has had if we have a minute or two.