A Brief History of the Carrefour and its Board of Directors
It’s been over five years since the Carrefour jeunesse emploi
Saint-Laurent opened its doors to the Laurentian population. The
neighbourhood wanted a project that would add to the economic, social
and cultural development of Saint-Laurent, but would also increase the
local workforce. The provisional Board of Directors first met in July
2001. A request for implementation was sent to the Ministry of State
for Labour and Employment in October 2000, coordinated by the Chamber
of Commerce of Saint-Laurent and supported by MPs Jacques P. Dupuis
(Saint-Laurent) and Yvan Bordeleau (l’Acadie) as well as by a number of
social and community organizations. In July 2001, the Chamber of
Commerce receives a positive reply from the ministère de l’Emploi et de
la Solidarité Sociale du Québec, and, on March 18th 2002, the Carrefour
jeunesse emploi Saint-Laurent welcomes its first clients.
With
the help of public consultations, community, institutional, government
and municipal partners, along with private companies have determined
the Carrefour's five target clienteles : immigrants, women coming
from ethno-cultural groups, youth at risk of abandoning school, those
with no income and Anglophones living in Saint-Laurent.
The Carrefour jeunesse emploi Saint-Laurent runs under part III of the
Loi sur les compagnies du Québec, and is registered since February 23,
2001. The Board of Directors has nine administrators and its goal is to
preserve and defend local management, autonomy local specific needs,
access for a wide variety of at-risk clients and the complementary
aspect of services. The Board is also responsible for insuring that
services and projects provided to youth in the community are adapted to
their needs and environment and cooperate with local partners.
The Carrefour jeunesse emploi Saint-Laurent is a member of the comité
des organismes sociaux de Saint-Laurent (COSSL), of the Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of Saint-Laurent, as well as of the Réseau des
carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec (RCJEQ).
The 2007-2008 members of the Board of Directors are:
Danielle Villemaire (Chair)
Luc Duguay (Vice-Chair)
Jean-Christophe Barette (Treasurer)
Nathalie Cardinal (Secretary)
Norman Chenail (Administrator)
Carole Vallée (Administrator)
El Hadji Diaw (Administrator)
Mélanie Grégoire (Administrator)
Christian Pellerin (Administrator)
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