An “all-inclusive” to bring parents to school

Stephanie Gendron

Monday, 16 October, 2017 00:01

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SAINTE-ANNE-DES-MONTS | school Board takes the great ways to get people out of social assistance and the under-schooling. She will pay the child care, transportation, the effects of school and even lunches to its students.

The mothers and fathers of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Haute-Gaspésie, who have not completed high school, no longer have excuses for not returning to school.

A pilot project has been set up and 10 parents enrolled will send free of charge their children to the daycare just in front of the Center of vocational training. They will be given a $ 20 card purchase of gasoline per week otherwise they will use a free transport service is organized.

“We thought that this would be attractive to go to get them and we wished that there be no constraints. We tried to think of everything, ” said Mélanie Gaudreault, who had the idea for the project when she has seen parents give up for lack of child care, time or money. The rate of maternity of young women aged 15 to 18 years old in the MRC is 25.3 %, compared to 10 % across the province.

Their tuition fees and textbooks are provided, as well as the meals. If necessary, the school will pay for the birth certificate needed at registration.

Parents will have their Thursday afternoons free to go and do their errands while the kids are still in daycare. They will be on leave on Friday.

First secondary

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Marie-Josée Therrien, a mother of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts who lives on social assistance, has decided to enroll in the program Approach, training and respite care to young parents. It thereby seeks to improve his lot and that of his children.

This program of all-inclusive school has seduced Marie-Josée Therrien, a mom of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts 23 years of age, who, with his level of the first school, wants to find a job in returning to school to follow a training.

She has done a course of kitchen helper in the past and has attempted two years ago a back-to-school at the vocational training Centre, but has stalled.

“I want to find a job and attend a training course. I also want to me dégêner and get out of the house. I wanted to go back to school. I would have found the means, but the program, it helps me a lot. It can advance me in a lot of things instead of being at home and find the time long, ” said the mother of a girl of six and a half months.

With the ” all-inclusive “, for 33 weeks, she will attend French classes and workshops, will meet with the academic advisor, and will make visits to training centres. The goal is to find a formation to his liking for the track next year, but of its own wings.

Children

During this time, children socialiseront. They will be entitled to one book per month from the library and a subscription to the library. Their parents will also learn how to tell them a story at night before bedtime.

“It is for people who have weak skills in French. With the workshops, we want to give the taste to the parents, to ensure that it is passed on to the child, ” said Melanie Gaudreault.

The pilot project will cost 70 000 $ to 10 participants. Half is used to pay for daycare and the rest to the expenses of parents-students and a few hours of co-ordination.

The stall is expensive

►500 000 $

Social costs generated by each of the dropouts in the course of a life

►26 000 $

Average annual income of a person without a diploma

►33 000 $

Average annual income with a degree, diploma,

►120 000 $

Gain, which would deprive the society for each dropout

Source : The economic consequences of dropping out of school 2016 by PRÉCA (Partners for educational success in the Chaudière-Appalaches)
 

A good idea if you fixed objectives

SAINTE-ANNE-DES-MONTS | An “all-inclusive” is a great way to bring parents to the school, but it is still necessary to dwell on the purpose of each at the end of the course, considers a specialist of the professional training.

“It is not necessary that this is just a good idea. And it should not be wrong, ” says Henri Boudreault, professor at the UQAM.

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Henri Boudreault

Professor

It is very attractive for a parent away from the schooling that we take care of the financial side, since lacking money is often a reason to abandon his course.

Also, the fact that the children are cared for in child care facilities is a real advantage, as this creates a learning climate favourable for the mom or the dad who doesn’t have to worry about this hassle.

However, once the entry is successful, it is necessary to ensure that the student will be supervised and that it will be a realistic goal for the end of his career, which should lead to employment, he believes.

The output

“It is necessary that there is a following for them. It is necessary that there is a work with the pedagogical or guidance advisers, who are coaching to know where they want to go. In short, you must worry about the output as much as there is concern about the entry “, said Henri Boudreault.

According to the specialist, it is also a good time to go in search of young people who are on social assistance, but who have not yet spent too much time.

Mr. Boudreault believes that it is necessary to also take the opportunity to avoid the professions stereotyped to the mother and as well open their horizons.