"It does depend on the counsellors. You still have the odd counsellor that honestly expects a person to go from a level one student to a grade 12 in like 4 months. They are supposed to have all the education they need in 4 months, be employable and have a job at the end of it!"

"There are so many issues that are really beyond what you can do in a classroom program of this type. Until we get some kind of system where there are resources for counselling, for building support groups.. and all that stuff I don't think the possibility of these people getting jobs is very high"
"In the Spring of '96 we lost huge numbers of people.. It's not been unsaid but it's really important. The client group - the students that we used to have we don't have anymore - but they haven't gone away. They're still out there. They are not going anywhere but they are there. They've slipped through another crack. (One of our students) is a good example of what happens to someone when they just lose it all. In the middle of last winter he was working for chips and coke and a place to sleep. Which meant a boarded up room which didn't have a lock on the door and a mattress on the floor. He had no heat in the room.. and he was putting in 40, 50, 60 hours a week... That's how he was living. That's where they go. Or they go and live with their kids and then disappear."
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