Parents en Action will begin again this fall!

This project ran by the Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi and the Commission scolaire des Sommets’ Adult Education Centre will begin in November for a new session 2018-2019. The 2 organisms had orchestrated the projet for a 2nd year in 2017-2018, aided by several local and regional partners.
The project aims to enhance the ability of at-risk parents to act by giving them an opportunity that’s based on their reality, and by better equipping them to meet their family’s needs. Poverty, illiteracy, lack of training and being the parent of young children are all factors that exclude people from the job market. This project allows us to build intermediate "steps" for those for whom "the next step is too high", more specifically underprivileged parents with young children.
The parent group gets together three half-days a week for 24 weeks. It’s open to both mothers and fathers. Several conditions have been put in place in order to reduce barriers that might prevent parents of young children from participating.

Here are the results for the period of January 2017 to June 2018:
  • 9 people enrolled (including 2 fathers)
  • 8 people enrolled don’t have a Secondary Graduate
  • among the children of this parents, 11 are 5 years old or less and 2 are at the elementary school
  • of the 4 dropped out, 2 found a job and 1 was back to school.
  • There was an attendance rate of 76%.
Comments from participants also reveal the impact the group has had on their lives:
« I’m proud of the evolution and the awarenesses which I made on me and on my mom’s rules »,
« I’m able to concentrate my energy on the training and to ask the good questions »
« I didn’t quit!»
« I learnt the constancy and what if we want we can make everything »
« It’s an excellent program which help us. Help professionally as personally. It’s as a group of support. »
« I’m going to return to school (and end my studies)!»

The success of this program is due to the excellent trainers who accompany the parents, but also in the presence of participating parents of course!
Then the help of all the organisms of the MRC will be very important for managing to find the people who could benefit advantageously from this project. We thus request you all to make know the program!!