By age 21, one-third of young people who have been placed under the care of Quebec's youth protection services, the Direction de la protection de la jeunesse (DPJ), are unemployed and not attending school, according to the study.
A Quebec court judge has ruled a teenager who was moved dozens of times in the youth protection system was "so cut off from her culture that she found herself in a very advanced process of assimilation."Quebec Court Judge Peggy Warolin has issued two decisions in the last month highly critical of Quebec's department of youth protection. She ordered copies of both decisions be sent to provincial ministers.
It's one of two decisions recently issued by Warolin that she insisted be forwarded directly to the provincial ministers responsible for social services and relations with First Nations and Inuit. The girl was doing better after being placed at a rehab centre in Montreal in 2021 where all the children housed there spoke Inuktitut.
Warolin attributed the girls' situation in part to territorial battles between the provincial Department of Youth Protection and local health authorities in Nunavik, the region encompassing Quebec's Far North.Judge says little has changed since Viens CommissionThat decision concerned another Inuk girl, aged 13, who'd been in foster care since age six.
"It is therefore clear that almost five years later, the problem of lack of resources decried by the Honorable Jacques Viens has not been resolved," Warolin said."The situation we are witnessing today is all the more dramatic. Without a serious desire to resolve the problem in a lasting manner, we can only anticipate a multiplication of cases similar to this one," Warolin said.
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