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Programs and measures

  • Alternative jeunesse Program
    Alternative jeunesse Program is the way to go for people under 25 years of age who want to acquire personal, social and vocational self-sufficiency. This program offers young people personalized coaching in addition to financial assistance in the form of a youth allowance.
  • Découvrir. Discover a trade or professionLink to external site.
    Découvrir. Discover a trade or profession makes it possible for unemployed people under 25 years old to have quality job shadowing and workplace observation experiences so they can validate their career choice or get a feel for a workplace first hand.
  • Devenir
    This program is designed to help people who are not ready to join the labour force in the short term to build a better future. The objective is to prepare people to participate in a measure or program offered by public employment services.
  • Financial assistance for pregnant minors (specific program)
    The Ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale can provide monthly financial assistance for pregnant minors who are without financial resources.
  • Income Support Program for Older Workers
  • The purpose of the Support Program for Older workers is to offer monthly financial assistance to older workers who have been let go or laid off and find themselves out of a job because of the current economic situation.
  • Income Support Program for Workers Affected by Collective Dismissals
    This program is designed to help workers who have experienced a collective dismissal.
  • Financial Support Program for Older Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs in the Forest Industry
    This program is aimed at providing financial assistance for older forest-industry workers who have been let go or laid off.
  • Income Support Program for Workers Affected by Collective Dismissals in the Resources Regions
    The purpose of this program is to provide financial assistance to workers who have been collectively dismissed. Regions: Bas-St-Laurent, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Mauricie, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Côte-Nord, Nord-du-Québec, Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
  • Income Support Program for Workers Affected by Collective Dismissals in the Textile and Clothing Sectors, Excluding the Resource Regions
    The purpose of this program is to provide financial assistance to workers who have been collectively dismissed. Regions: Capitale-Nationale, Estrie, Ville de Montréal, Outaouais, Chaudière-Appalaches, Montréal-banlieue et Laval, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Montérégie, Centre-du-Québec.
  • Interagir
    Interagir program helps persons whose access to the labour market can only be considered as a long-term project to a better future. The goal is to help persons become involved in a process that will lead them to become more actively involved in their community.
  • Jeunes en action
    Jeunes en action offers young people between 18 and 24 years old an opportunity to develop their full potential. This measure is designed to meet the needs of young people who face obstacles restraining them from entering the labour market. It also offers both guidance and personalized coaching.
  • Last-resort financial assistance
    Last-resort financial assistance for low-income individuals and families.
  • Ma place au soleil
    This job-entry measure helps young mothers receiving last-resort financial assistance benefits to meet their family obligations while completing their schooling.
  • Parental Wage Assistance (PWA)
    This program was replaced by the Work PremiumLink to external site..
  • Québec Parental Insurance PlanLink to external site.
    The Québec Parental Insurance Plan provides for the payment of a financial benefit to any eligible worker who takes a maternity, paternity, adoption or parental leave during which the worker sustains an interruption of earnings.
  • Québec plurielLink to external site.
    Projects whose goal is to improve the employability of young adults from cultural communities and visible minorities.
  • Réussir
    Réussir is a social assistance and support program for people who have severely limited capacity for employment and who wish to facilitate their access to secondary vocational studies or post-secondary studies.
  • Social and Community Initiative Support Program (French only)
    The community and volunteer action component is aimed at supporting research, evaluation, training and pilot projects in the field of community and volunteer action.
  • Supplement to the Work Premium
    The supplement to the work premium is a tax credit that has been implemented to help former recipients of last-resort financial assistance to remain in employment.
  • Young volunteersLink to external site.
    Young volunteers allows young people aged 16 to 29 to explore business projects, organize services in their community and carry out projects they feel strongly about.
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