Young people

Emploi-Québec offers programs designed specifically for young Quebecers:

• Youth Alternative helps social assistance recipients who are under age 25 become personally, socially and vocationally self-reliant.
• Hats Off To You! is a contest to promote secondary and college-level programs in which women and girls account for less than a third of enrolments.
• Découvrir un métier, une profession allows young people under age 25 to participate in short on-the-job internships.
• Jeunes en action offers unemployed young people between the ages of 18 and 24 help adapted to their personal problems, to facilitate their social and occupational integration.
• Jeunes volontaires gives young people aged 16 to 29 a chance to acquire skills by deploying a personal project.
• Ma place au soleil targets young mothers who receive last-resort financial assistance and want to return to school.
• Placement étudiant helps students find jobs year-round.
• Québec pluriel is a job-search support program for young members of cultural communities and visible minorities.