Currently, 9.5% of our employees, our staff, have self-identified as being indigenous peoples. That's above the workforce availability estimate of 6.2%.
In terms of aboriginal staff, we have approximately 140 elders that we contract with. We have aboriginal liaison officers, aboriginal correctional program officers, aboriginal community development officers, and aboriginal community liaison officers. Our healing lodge wardens, for the most part, are aboriginal. We have an aboriginal initiative directorate at NHQ, national headquarters. The director general is aboriginal. We also have regional directorates in each of the regions.
In terms of our efforts to hire staff, obviously we go to colleges and schools to recruit, but we've also just developed a succession planning plan. This is really to assist employees who are part of the aboriginal continuum of care that I just mentioned. We want to retain their expertise, but we also want to prepare them to take over more senior positions.