Community working together

Résumé

“Good luck and the best of success in your studies!” How many times have schoolchildren heard comments such as these? However, if we really think about it, luck plays a very small role in the development and success of our children and adolescents. In the end, health and well-being are the essential premises for success, and they depend more than anything else on favourable economic, family, social, and cultural conditions. Montreal, like other large metropolitan centres, has its share of poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, and other socio-economic problems. These situations are undoubtedly linked to the difficulties that far too many young Montrealers face in trying to achieve their full potential and develop a healthy, balanced lifestyle within their families, their schools, and their communities. This is a real concern for the Montreal community and its public health agency.

To develop in good health and to succeed in school, our young people need much more than encouraging words. Above all, they need our commitment and support — support from parents and other family members, of course, but also from educators, health and social services, community organizations, the media, employers, the police, governmental agencies, and not least, from citizens in general. Young people live and evolve within a family, a school, and a community, and they are all in the process of actively shaping their present and their future.

Auteurs - Auteures

• Violaine Ayotte 
• Claire Gagné
• Doina Malai
• Carole Poulin

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