Conclusion

Through its Youth Action Strategy, which will cover the years 2005-2008, the Québec government intends to improve the support offered to young people, improve their health and well-being, foster their educational success and integration into the workforce, and enhance the place they hold in society.

The coming demographic changes, the need to work in conjunction with actors from young people’s many living environments and the need to provide for greater coherence and complementary among services means that we must make strategic decisions. The same is true of the need to better accommodate the situation of young people facing more complex or culturally different realities, as well as the need to respond more adequately to the aspirations of regional youth.

This consultation is a turning point in the development of the government’s strategy. It offers young people and actors involved in youth issues the opportunity to take a stand on the means of action to be favoured in making the government’s strategic choices for youth a reality.