It is definitely a reality that a lot of the groups we've worked with have been in major cities. The first reason is funding. Those in smaller, remote communities often have a lack of funding to pay for a program like this. For some of them, especially firefighters, a lot of them are volunteers, so there is no funding at all. The other issue is just accessibility. For example, when somebody attends training like this, they have to, obviously, not be on shift and active at that point. Taking those people off shift to attend training like this is sometimes hard with scheduling when there aren't a lot of people. We're saying that a class has 12 people in it. To take 12 people out of rotation for a half day, or a day if they are managers, is often difficult in smaller communities.
It's something that we're addressing in a number of different ways. For example, we're hosting. Typically, the sessions are run within an organization by the organization. The commission has started delivering sessions that are hosted by the commission. Those 12 to 24 people who attend are individuals from various organizations, so an organization can send maybe two or three people at a time instead of having to host a full class of 12. One, it reduces the cost because they don't have to host it themselves, and they don't have to pay for space and all that stuff. Two, they can send just a couple of people at a time instead of having to have a whole class.
We're also doing it with larger organizations, in a sense, lending their trainers to smaller organizations. They're volunteering their time to go into those remote and rural places. We're also looking at changing some of our business model to allow for partners that specialize in delivering training to first responder organizations. We've licensed a couple of those types of organizations that specialize in training to then go off into these remote and rural areas. They might go and deliver multiple types of training, not just ours, but ours would be a piece of it. That way they have easier access to those places because they have people in those areas.
There are different ways of addressing it, but it really does come down to funding.