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Chris Boudreau, whose son converted to Islam and died fighting in Syria, speaks to reporters on Sept. 11, 2014, at a conference on how to prevent the radicalization of Muslim youth. She believes a Calgary program that links at-risk young people with police officers and social workers to steer them away from dangerous ideologies should be mandatory. The Canadian Press/Bill Graveland
CALGARY—The soft-spoken young man wasn’t being recruited by neo-Nazis or the Islamic State, but he was in a downward spiral.
Andy, who asked not to have his real name published, says he hit rock bottom a few years ago when he was 19. He later got help from Calgary’s ReDirect program, which links at-risk young people with police officers and social workers to steer them from dangerous ideologies.
