Kids at risk, services are understaffed
One in ten kids in Quebec was the subject of youth protection reports but youth protection services are seriously understaffed in Montreal.
The Gazette points out that community groups are being squeezed out by rental increases.
JaneyB 10:09 on 2023-06-14 Permalink
Wow. I had no idea that so many kids were in harm’s way. To get to a report level of distress is something, after all. I’m curious where Quebec’s system of Centres des jeunesse fits in this. It seems to be a real innovation in teenage services and I was thinking it would absorb some of the normal stresses of parent-kid relations during that age. Maybe someone here knows more about this?
I’m sad that the big Stanley St. YMCA is being sold. That’s a great facility. I thought the Y was fairly solvent and certainly a key part of any city’s social and community service network. Seems not.
JP 12:27 on 2023-06-14 Permalink
It’s all so depressing. It’s in everyone’s collective best interest that these organizations continue their work. The government needs to step in. Remember when they bailed out Bombardier and then they just gave themselves big bonuses???
But somehow for this, well, they’ll literally have to beg and probably barely get anything at that.
waffles 16:08 on 2023-06-14 Permalink
Most of these jobs at community centres and youth programs pay 19-23$ an hour, poverty wages. No benefits. These jobs shouldn’t be dead end 🙁