The province will be funding a prevention program to help keep at-risk youth out of trouble, officials announced Monday.
Quebec Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux said the government will invest $625,000 over five years into thwarting youth delinquency in the northern Montreal borough of St-Léonard.
The project brings together the municipal group Prévention Jeunesse — which addresses issues of radicalization in Montreal — and the YMCA Quebec to run programs aimed at preventing youth involvement in street gangs and radicalization.
“(This initiative) will allow us to act locally and in a succinct manner in order to prevent and intervene directly within a population of youth who are vulnerable to violence, delinquency and radicalization,” said Anie Samson, the city’s executive committee member responsible for public security.
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