As Colonel Wright mentioned, we are standing up 27 transition centres across the country. We're doing this in a phased approach. Right now, we have about 50% of those transition centres established, and by the summer it will be 75% across all provinces in the country. They're established on a regional basis, taking care of all the different bases and wings under their purview.
As part of that process, everyone will go see a transition adviser, TA, who will provide very personalized assistance to the individual depending on their needs, and those needs are based on the seven domains of well-being Colonel Wright outlined initially. It will be a very in-depth counselling process; they'll take them through the seven domains to ensure all of the different needs they may have or may not have even thought about before are covered off as part of that counselling session.
At the same time, they are paired up with a release administrator and a veteran service agent, VSA, from VAC, if required, to assist them in understanding all their benefits, and ensuring that they've applied for everything before they hit their date of release and know what kinds of services and programs exist.
In addition to this, a year ago we established the military transition and engagement partnership, MTEP, directorate. It provides a variety of services, including access to third party organizations that can provide programs, outreach and all kinds of different assistance to all the unique members of our CAF population. Of course, we have not just female veterans, but also people from varying cultural backgrounds and indigenous members. These third party organizations are going to work with us to establish programs for all the different unique members.
Once they meet with a transition adviser they set up a transition plan, shared between the member and the TA. It's basically an agreement between the two of them to work through the different elements of the transition plan so they can meet their goals and objectives by the date of release. However, we also do a bit of a handover. Because the VAC reps are now integrated with the transition centres, we do a handover with the VAC reps before the members get out so that, especially for those who are facing complex situations, we can agree on what kinds of things need to be made known to them.