Job offers A first job is a crucial step for street kids determined to get back on their feet. They are already very wary of failure, and need extra support and encouragement during this period. This is why it is so important to offer them the opportunity to gain experience in an environment adapted to their situation. We offer job opportunities to kids within our own organization - specifically in the kitchen, depot, thrift store, and art, music and computer rooms. Thanks to the invaluable assistance of the Centre de ressources éducatives et pédagogique (CREP), we are able to provide our kids with the services of an employment educator. As a result, our youths receive on-the-job training, and qualification certificates were handed out covering a wide variety of occupations including kitchen helper, driver's assistant, art room assistant, computer workshop assistant, music workshop assistant, warehouse clerk and building maintenance attendant. In addition, several members of the business community have teamed up with Dans la rue to offer internship programs that enable youths to develop transferable job skills and bolster their self-confidence. Since early 2001, Dans la rue has been running a pilot project known as Solidarité Jeunesse. Over the next two years, this socio-economic integration program will offer roughly 50 street kids the opportunity to enhance their personal and professional abilities and acquire a wide range of tools designed to develop their employability skills. Our employment educator is on hand to facilitate various types of projects. To date, he has successfully helped put some 20 kids on the road to success. Thanks to his guidance, a total of 14 qualification certificates have been issued, confirming that an individual has learned not only the specific duties of a given position, but also job-related habits and behaviours in terms of attendance, punctuality, motivation, self-control, organization, cooperation, teamwork, interaction with superiors, respect of rules, communication, and work quality and output. We counted 216 participants in Reintegration Programs last year.