2020 QCCQ 13196, 2020 QCCQ 13196

Protection de la jeunesse — 201012 2020 QCCQ 13196 COURT OF QUÉBEC CANADA PROVINCE OF QUEBEC DISTRICT OF [...] TOWN OF [...] Youth Division No: 145-41-000631-199 DATE: February 26, 2020 ______________________________________________________________________ BY THE HONOURABLE JANICK POIRIER, J.C.Q. ______________________________________________________________________ THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH PROTECTION Applicant and X born on [...], 2002 Adolescent and A and B Parents/Defendants ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ] Less than three months ago, the Court grants an application for protection and entrusts the adolescent to his grandmother, following a short provisional placement in a rehabilitation centre. [ 2 ] At the time, the adolescent commits himself to comply with rules and behave adequately. [ 3 ] Unfortunately, it does not work out at the grandmother’s.

The Court is now asked to review the previous judgment and entrust the adolescent to a rehabilitation centre until he comes of age, next November. [ 4 ] Following the hearing, the Court grants the application, pronouncing an oral judgment. Here are the reasons supporting that decision. [ 5 ] After going back to live with his grandmother, last December, the adolescent only remains there for about seven days. He then runs away again.

The RCMP finds the adolescent in [Province A], 11 days later, behind the wheel of what appears to be a stolen vehicle. [ 6 ] Unsurprisingly, the adolescent is then brought to a rehabilitation centre. Since then, he is entrusted to an intensive supervision unit. [ 7 ] The adolescent’s situation is worrying. In court, the adolescent expresses good intentions, but he does not take action, up until now. [ 8 ] He tells the youth protection delegate that he wants to attend a treatment centre for his addictions. She undertakes steps toward that project.

However, shortly after, the adolescent states he just wants to do his time and then go back to his life with drugs and no rules. [ 9 ] There are also concerns with the adolescent’s mental health. He is assessed after saying he was hearing voices and seeing shadows. The psychiatrist prescribes a medication by injection every 28 days. [ 10 ] The adolescent obviously needs professional help on a daily basis, in a structured environment. [ 11 ] The evidence convinces the Court that the application is well founded.

FOR THESE REASONS AND THOSE EXPRESSED ORALLY AT THE HEARING, THE COURT: [ 12 ] GRANTS the application for revision and extension of order; [ 13 ] DECLARES that the security and development of X are still considered to be in danger according to

section 38 of the youth protection act ; [ 14 ] ORDERS that the adolescent be entrusted to a rehabilitation centre until [...], 2020; [ 15 ] RECOMMENDS that the adolescent take his medication, namely injections every 28 days; [ 16 ] ORDERS that the mother and the adolescent take an active

part in the application of the measures ordered; [ 17 ] ORDERS that a person working for an establishment provide aid, counsels and assistance to the adolescent and his family until [...], 2020 (date of his majority); [ 18 ] ENTRUSTS the situation of the adolescent to the DYP of the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux A for the carrying out of the judgment. __________________________________ JANICK POIRIER, J.C.Q. Me Louyse A. Lemieux for the applicant Me Alexis Deschênes for the adolescent Mrs. A the mother (absent) Mr. B the father (absent) Written judgment filed on February 27, 2020