No school, no job for many Quebecers who received youth protection services: study
Researchers at the Chaire-Réseau de Recherche sur la Jeunesse du Québec found that only a fraction of the 1,136 young people who took part in the study had jobs and a high school diploma coming out of their teenage years.
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![By age 21, one-third of young people who have been placed under the care of Quebec's youth protection services, the Direction de la protection de la jeunesse (DPJ), are unemployed and not attending school, according to the study. A person sits on a bench.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7180073.1713636885!/fileImage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/dpj.png)
Researchers at the Chaire-Réseau de Recherche sur la Jeunesse du Québec found that only a fraction of the 1,136 young people who took part in the study had jobs and a high school diploma coming out of their teenage years.