2019 QCCQ 20009, 2019 QCCQ 20009

Protection de la jeunesse — 198267 2019 QCCQ 20009 COURT OF QUÉBEC CANADA PROVINCE OF QUEBEC DISTRICT […] TOWN […] Youth Division No: 145-41-000587-185 DATE: September 6, 2019 ______________________________________________________________________ BY THE HONOURABLE JANICK POIRIER, J.C.Q. ______________________________________________________________________ THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH PROTECTION Applicant -and- X born on […], 2007 Child -and- A Mother/Respondent ______________________________________________________________________ JUDGMENT ______________________________________________________________________ WARNING: The Youth Protection Act forbids the publishing or broadcasting of information allowing for a child or the child’s parents to be identified.

Any person who contravenes this provision commits an offence and is liable to a fine (sections 11.2, 11.2.1 and 135 Y.P.A.). [ 1 ] Social services have been working with that family for several years. [ 2 ] The children are entrusted in foster care. They have been living with their foster parents, on and off, for the last four years. [ 3 ] The director of youth protection (DYP) asks the Court to extend the application of protective measures, notably the placement, until the children come of age. [ 4 ] The hearing was previously postponed to give the mother the opportunity to seek legal counsel.

Unfortunately, she decides instead not to be present in court. [ 5 ] The mother and her spouse have visits with the children and they usually go well. [ 6 ] However, the mother and her spouse do no undertake steps to change their situation, solve their personal issues and be able to assume their parental duties on a daily basis. [ 7 ] The children evolve positively in their foster family.

The foster parents commit themselves to take care of the children on the long term. [ 8 ] It is time to pronounce a judgment that will ensure continuity of care, stable relationships and stable living conditions for the children, on a permanent basis. [ 9 ] The evidence convinces the Court that the application is well founded. FOR THESE REASONS AND THOSE EXPRESSED ORALLY AT THE HEARING, THE COURT: [ 10 ] GRANTS the application for revision and extension of order; [ 11 ] DECLARES that the security and development of X are still considered to be in danger according to

section 38 of the youth

protection act ; [ 12 ] REVISES AND EXTENDS the Court order rendered on March 28, 2019; [ 13 ] ORDERS that the child be entrusted to the foster family of Mrs.

B, designated by the establishment that operates the child and youth protection center, and this until […], 2025; [ 14 ] ORDERS that the contacts between the child and the mother be determined according to the agreement between the parties involved; [ 15 ] ORDERS the mother to be sober and does not consume drugs in the presence of the child; [ 16 ] RECOMMENDS that the mother submit herself to random drug screening tests for drugs and /or alcohol; [ 17 ] RECOMMENDS that the mother get involved in a follow-up related to personal difficulties substance addiction follow-up; [ 18 ] ORDERS that the mother actively participate in applying the measures ordered; [ 19 ] ORDERS that a person working for an establishment provide aid, counsels and assistance to the child and her family until […], 2025; [ 20 ] ENTRUSTS the situation of the child to the DYP of the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux A for the carrying out of the present measures; [ 21 ] ORDERS that the persons concerned by this order conform with it. __________________________________ JANICK POIRIER, J.C.Q.

Me Louyse A. Lemieux for the applicant Me Jules Grenier for the child Mrs. A the mother (absent) Written judgment filed on September 20, 2019