Untitled Document QUICK LINKS: EMPLOYMENT I HEALTH I EDUCATION I OTHER RESOURCES

RESOURCES:

Here is where you get connected. Need a job, or starting your own business? See information and articles on everything from writing a resume to where to find postings. Want health information? From crisis lines, to finding a clinic, to sex advice, to dealing with violence – you`ll find it here. Planning your education? Courses, programs, and financial assistance in Quebec are listed. And everything in between, from regional youth networks, to voting, to getting your driver`s licence. To let us know we`re missing something, contact us. Please remember we are not responsible for the content of sites external to the CBC.

EMPLOYMENT:

Resources, advice, opportunities (these external links are provided by the Quebec Community Groups Network)

Job Guide
Your complete guide to finding a job in Quebec from Emploi Quebec

Your Rights as an Employee
Wages, vacation, dismissal, scheduling, complaints, harassment … all you need to know, from Emploi Quebec

Figure out your future
Explore a trade or occupation, find a training program, find out about a sector of activity, or find a business, from Emploi Quebec

Carrefour Jeunesse-emploi
Find a carrefour Jeunesse-emploi in your region by clicking on the map – they can help you find a job, get training, or write your resume. If you do not speak French, call first to see if they do. This is from the network of Carrefour Jeunesse-emploi

How-to:

How to write a resume
Tips and examples from Emploi Quebec

How to write a cover letter
Tips and examples from Emploi Quebec

How to fill out an application form
Tips and examples from Emploi Quebec

How to create your own portfolio
Tips and examples from Emploi Quebec

Entrepreneurship:

Société d’aide au développement de la collectivité
The SADC provides financial assistance and personalized follow-up to business ventures including personal loans of between $5,000 and $15,000 from the Société d’aide au développement de la collectivité

Quebec Entrepreneurship Contest
The Québec Entrepreneurship Contest is a unique event in many ways. It targets a niche that has not been filled by other entrepreneurship contests, focusing on young people in schools and on new entrepreneurs who are often at the business planning stage. In addition, it is the only Québec contest to offer such large prizes, not to mention that it is open to anyone who resides in Québec.

Info-entrepreneurs
This site provides entrepreneurs with accurate business information on provincial and federal government programs, services and regulations, as well as business start-up guides, fact sheets, financial management advice and much more.

Dobson-Lagassé Centre for Entrepreneurship
The Dobson-Lagassé Entrepreneurship Centre offers entrepreneurs a wide range of consulting services, resources, training sessions and conferences that support entrepreneurship.

Revenue Quebec
Are you thinking about starting a business, and do you wish to know how to adequately meet your fiscal obligations? Revenu Québec can help. The information in this section guides you to the tools and resources you will need to achieve your goals.

YES Montreal
Based in Montreal but with online services for the whole province, YES provides information for job-seekers, entrepreneurs, and professional (or soon-to-be!) artists.

BE HEALTHY:

QUICK LINKS: Physical health I Well-being I Addictions I Gambling I Mental wellness I Sex I Orientation I Suicide I Violence

Information and where to go for more (these external links are provided by the Quebec Community Groups Network)

Physical Health:

Quick contacts:
Emergencies: 9-1-1
Info-Sante: 8-1-1

Ministry of Health & Social Services: Guide to health information and social services from the government of Quebec.

CHSSN (The Community Health and Social Services Network): The network of community organizations, resources and public institutions striving to ensure access to health and social services in English for Quebec’s English-speaking communities.

CHSSN Regional Access: Click on your region for a list of medical access points and organizations near you. From the Community Health and Social Services Network.

Head & Hands: Health-related resources and information. Our mission is to work with youth to promote their physical and mental well being. Our approach is preventative, non-judgmental, and holistic with a fundamental commitment to providing an environment that welcomes youth without discrimination.

Tel-Jeunes: Frank discussion, Q & A, and information on just about everything for youth, from bullying, to pregnancy, to addiction. Online forum, web-chat, and phone support at 1-800-263-2266.

On the Tip of the Toes Foundation: Wilderness therapy expeditions for teenagers living with cancer, reinforcing their confidence in life and in themselves.

Well-being

Quick contacts:
Gayline: 1-888-505-1010
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868
Addiction: 1-800-265-2626
Gambling: 1-866-484-6664
Tel-jeunes: 1-800-263-2266

Addictions:

Drugs: Help and Referral:
Free, bilingual, confidential and anonymous help, open 24 hours, 7 days a week. 1-800-265-2626

Alateen: Al-Anon for youth:
Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. 1-888-4AL-ANON (1-888-425-2666)

Cocaine Anonymous (CA):
Sharing experiences, hope, and help with each other to solve our common problems. 1-800-347-8998

Narcotics Anonymous (NA):
Local meetings to help those with drug addictions. Click on the map to find meetings near you or call 1- 800-879-0333

J`arrête:
Phone for help quitting smoking, or check out the website for information and resources. 1-866-jarrete. From the Canadian Cancer Society Gambling

Gamblers Anonymous (GA):
International site – follow the links to Canada and then Quebec for local meetings near you. 1-866-484-6664

Mental Wellness:

AMI-Québec:
committed to helping families manage the effects of mental illness through support, education, guidance and advocacy. By promoting understanding, we work to dispel the stigma still surrounding mental illness, thereby helping to create communities that offer new hope for meaningful lives.

Pavillon Foster:
Provides alcohol/drug rehabilitation services to English speaking residents of Quebec and offers separate programs for youth (12-17) and adults (18+).

Tel-Jeunes:
Online information and discussion on healthy minds – from self-esteem, to living your values, to achieving a healthy balance.

Sex:

Scarleteen:
`Sex-ed for the real world`. Sex-positive information, message boards, Q&A, and funky resources.

Tel-Jeunes:
Q&A and open discussion of everything from pregnancy to STIs to love.

Sexual orientation and identity:

PROJECT 10:
information, help, and resources for lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, queer, trans, two-spirit, and questioning youth.

Alterheroes:
Online forums, networking, and sharing; an organization to facilitate the social and community integration of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth.

GAY LINE:
Listening to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgendered people, and transsexuals since 1976. Services are free, anonymous and confidential.

Suicide Prevention

For immediate help, dial 9-1-1

Tel-Jeunes:
Information and resources for those considering suicide and for their friends.

Kids Help Phone:
Phone and web counselling, referral, and information for youth aged 5 – 20 + . Anonymous and confidential support, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Violence:

LOVE Quebec:
Youth-led programs to develop the skills and motivation to help break the cycle of violence in themselves and others.

Kids Help Phone:
Phone and web counselling, referral, and information for youth aged 5 – 20 + . Anonymous and confidential support, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Tel-Jeunes:
Identifying and preventing sexual violence, and what to do if it`s happened to you. Also help for witnesses and those who commit acts of violence, and information about different types of violence.

EDUCATION:

QUICK LINKS: Universities I Cegeps I Distance / E-learning I Technical and vocational training I Financial Aid I Learning opportunities I 30 Reasons to Learn French by Thirty!

Here are the options (these external links are provided by the Quebec Community Groups Network)

Whether you want to be educated or trained in English or French, there are many options for young people in Quebec, from vocational training – especially since the trades were recently identified as a great area in the job market – to university programs, to improving your French. It`s all here. And check out 30 Reasons to Learn French by Thirty at the end of this section! Click here for quick links to educational resources:

FINANCIAL AID:

Quebec Loans and Bursaries Program
The Loans and Bursaries Program is intended for students who are pursuing or deemed to be pursuing secondary school vocational studies, collegestudies or university studies on a full-time basis in an educational institution recognized by the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport. From the Government of Quebec.

Canada Student Loans Program
The Canada Student Loans Program provides financial assistance in the form of loans and grants to post-secondary students who demonstrate financial need. Access through the Government of Quebec.

Apprenticeship Incentive Grant
The Apprenticeship Incentive Grant (AIG) is a taxable cash grant available to registered apprentices once they have successfully completed their first or second year (level) of an apprenticeship program in one of the Red Seal trades. From Service Canada.

Millennium Bursary Program
The Millennium Bursary Program awards bursaries to post-secondary students based on financial need and merit. Bursaries are awarded in collaboration with provincial and territorial financial assistance programs, which forward a list of eligible candidates to the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.

Millenium Scholarship Foundation (in effect until 2010)
See the Millennium Bursary Program description.

Canada Access Grant for Students from Low-Income Families
The Canada Access Grant for Students from Low-Income Families is awarded to first-time students from a low-income family in their first year ofpost-secondary studies. From Human Resources and Development Canada.

Scholarships Canada
Canada's most comprehensive scholarship portal. Search through an extensive database to find scholarships, student awards, bursaries and grants. You'll also find information about student loans, applications and budget planning.

Student Awards
A free scholarship and award matching service, the site matches students with scholarships, grants and cash awards.

Société d’aide au développement de la collectivité
The Réseau des SADC du Québec is a network of non-profit organizations that works at bringing out the best in Québec’s regions and ensuring each region’s development.

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES:

Katimavik
Katimavik is Canada’s leading national youth volunteer-service program. For nine months, young people aged 17 to 21 live in groups of 11, in three different communities throughout the country. They work 35 hours a week on volunteer community projects in addition to participating in structured learning activities. Katimavik fosters participants’ personal development through community involvement, training and group life.

WWOOF
World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (also known as Willing Workers on Organic Farms) is an organization which facilitates the placement of volunteer workers on organic farms. There are WWOOF groups in many countries around the world. A huge variety of people volunteer through WWOOF, from vacationing students to those who are interested in starting organic farming or organic gardening for themselves.

Canada World Youth
CWY designs and delivers international educational programs for youth (aged 17-24) with a focus on volunteer work and community development in a cross-cultural setting. As a team, youth live and work in communities in Canada and overseas, learning about local and international development and gaining essential job skills for the future.

SEVEC
SEVEC youth learning programs provide practical experience and personal growth opportunities to young Canadians between the ages of 12-17, their educators, community leaders and families throughout the year via exchanges and trips throughout Canada.

YMCA Youth Exchanges
This group reciprocal home-stay exchange program is designed for groups of 10 to 30 participants between the ages of 12 and 17. Participants are twinned with same-age groups from another province or territory, and they take turns staying in each other’s homes for at least five days. Groups involved in outdoor activities can even arrange camp-stay exchanges.

Accent
Accent is a part-time work experience available to postsecondary students who, as a rule, study outside their home province or territory. Language assistants are paid $520* a month over eight months. As a part-time language assistant, you will work in an urban setting, close to the postsecondary institution you attend and outside your home province or territory.

Odyssey
The Odyssey program provides full-time, paid positions for language assistants in rural or semi-urban areas that are generally outside the assistants’ province or territory of permanent residence.

Federal Public Sector Youth Internship Program
If you are between 15 and 30 years of age, you might be eligible to participate in the Federal Public Sector Youth Internship Program. This exciting program offers you the chance to gain real work experience within the Government of Canada and can help you develop your employability skills. These internships are offered across Canada in a wide variety of fields, such as agriculture, arts, administration, and the environment.

Explore
The Explore program offers bursaries to Canadian students so that they can participate in intensive five-week language-learning courses in English or French at accredited institutions across Canada.

30 reasons to learn French before you are thirty...

1. the language of love
2. research shows that the brain develops differently in people who speak more than one language
3. French is an official language at many international organizations – the UN, the International Olympic Committee
4. French is spoken by more than 200 million people around the world, 50 member countries in the Organisation de la Francophonie, 33 countries have French as an official language
5. Promotes respect of diversity
6. Learning a second language makes it easier to learn a third and fourth language
7. Can watch the Habs on RDS – a much better broadcast than CBC
8. Make new friends
9. Can participate in the tremendous variety of French music, theatre, films and festivals in Quebec
10. Increase your future opportunities to study – two major francophone universities in Montréal –or even study in Paris!
11. Open your eyes to another culture
12. Increase your skills – research shows that French immersion students also have better skills in English and math
13. 20,000 words in common in French and English (more than depanneur)
14. Opens future employment possibilities – knowing more than one language is a big plus in the job market
15. Different languages have their own terms to describe emotions, ideas, objects, allowing for more specificity and precision in describing experiences
16. Joie de vivre!
17. Can hold political office – a major consideration for politicians at any level is the ability to speak at least two languages
18. Access to great French literature
19. Travel is easier, more enjoyable and enlightening
20. French is the lingua franca of culture, including art, cuisine, dance, and fashion. France has won more Nobel Prizes for literature than any other country in the world and is one of the top producers of international films.
21. Work in government – public service
22. French speaking Africa is an area larger than the USA
23. Teach French Immersion in Saskatchewan
24. Montreal is the 2nd largest French speaking city in the world
25. Significantly less dementia in bilinguals
26. Can stay and study and work in Quebec
27. Exchanges and visits between schools and provinces
28. Develops problem solving skills
29. Language of diplomacy
30. There are 100 more reasons

Thanks to Lawrence DePoe, executive director of Canadian Parents for French, for contributing this list. Visit them at http://www.cpf.qc.ca/index.php

OTHER RESOURCES: Information, resources, and referral

Arts

www.quebec-elan.org
The English-language Arts Network represents and serves the English-speaking arts community in Quebec.

www.qwf.org
Web site of the Quebec Writers` Federation, with information on programs and activities of the organization, many of interest to young writers.

http://quebecbooks.qwf.org Online literary database of English-language Quebec writers and their books

http://lovemsjulie.blogspot.com/ Blog of hip librarian“Ms. Julie,” featuring fun information about Quebec’s English-language writers

Youth:

www.takingourplace.org Web site of the Laurentian Youth Network, a new organization of 16 – 35`s who are dedicated to improving the quality of life and possibilities for English-speakers and others living in the Laurentians

http://www.topportunity.ca/tayouth.aspx Youth site of the Townshippers Association, including opportunities, local competitions and events, job postings, resources, and more citizenship To learn about your rights:

www.educaloi.qc.ca Éducaloi is a non-profit organization whose mission is to inform Quebecers of their rights and obligations by providing legal information in everyday language. Includes your legal rights regarding tenancy, employment, driving, and just about everything else – in English, French, and many First Nations languages.

http://www.jeunepourjeunes.com/en/ Your rights and obligations: for youth at school. Provided by Educaloi. To learn about democracy (and have fun doing it):

http://www.apathyisboring.com/en/the_facts Your sexy guide to democracy, voting, politics, citizenship, and the government. Provided by Apathy is Boring.

http://www.apathyisboring.com/en/the_facts/articles/90 10 Facts About Women in Canadian Politics. Provided by Apathy is Boring.

http://www.apathyisboring.com/en/the_facts/articles/29 Why You Should Vote: 10 Reasons to Consider. Provided by Apathy is Boring

http://www.apathyisboring.com/en/the_facts/articles/33 Why Youth Matter. Provided by Apathy is Boring

Online Youth News:

www.laurentianlife.com The website of Mainstreet newspaper, the most widely-read English language newspaper in the Laurentians. Check out The Avenue section for youth-related events, interviews, music reviews, and articles.

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