Quebec's $34M Child Well-being Plan: Grandir en confiance

0:00It's April 1st, from your city to your ears. This is Canada News today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. Quebec's legal government just dropped a new child well-being plan, called Grandier and Confiance, to tackle the surge in youth protection reports. They're pumping $34 million into it over three years, straight from recommendations by the Laurent Commission on Kids Rights. Most of the youth protection system have jumped 110% in the last 20 years, while front-mind services are maxed out. Families are hitting public health harder for stuff like poverty and mental health struggles, so the strategy pushes prevention to catch issues early. Officials like Sonya Dugal from Santa Equalbeck say the goal is to beef up services at CLSCs and programs for troubled youth, keeping more cases out of. Protection altogether. That way, kids and parents get support before things spiral. The plan hits six priorities, from stronger prevention to better services for first nations

1:00and Inuit kids, with three rollout phases up to 20, 35. Trainings for parents are coming soon, and schools, communities, and cities are all jumping in as partners. Foster families caring for around 6,000 kids feel left out though, calling for real recruitment help and safety nets for youth aging out at. 18. The solid long-term bet on early action, but they'll need to deliver on all fronts to make it stick.