Batshaw Youth and Family Centres

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Batshaw Youth and Family Centres
FoundedFounded in 1992 Named after Manuel Batshaw
Headquarters,
Canada [1]
Area served
Montreal
Website www.batshaw.qc.ca
www.batshawfoundation.ca

Batshaw Youth and Family Centres (also known as Batshaw, Batshaw Centres, or Batshaw Youth and Family Services, French : Les Centres de la jeunesse et de la famille Batshaw), is a government funded organization in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that is devoted to the welfare of children and their families. Batshaw is entirely funded by the Government of Québec. [1]

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Maclean's described it as "Quebec’s anglophone child welfare agency", while the Direction de la protection de la jeunesse  [ fr ] (DPJ) has that function for French-speaking families. [2]

Its head office is in Westmount, on Montreal Island. [3]

History

Batshaw was created in 1992 as a non-profit organization, used as a government agency to help children and their families. Batshaw youth and family services is an amalgamation of several other preexisting child welfare agencies; Youth Horizons, Shawbridge Youth and Family Centres, Ville-Marie Social Services (VMSS) and Mount St. Pats, that were combined to make one agency. [1]

In 2015 the provincial government placed Batshaw in the hierarchy of the Montreal West Island Integrated University Health and Social Services Centre  [ fr ] (Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal). [4]

In 2021, it announced it would begin providing Inuktitut language materials in its facilities. [5]

Name

Batshaw Youth and Family Centres is named in honour of Manuel G. Batshaw, a social worker and renowned activist. Manuel Batshaw was in the Canadian Armed Forces before he started working in the Social Service network. Social Services. [1]

Present

Presently,[ as of? ] Batshaw Youth and Family Centres runs a series of group homes across Montreal, as well as youth detention centers. A notable chain of group homes run by Batshaw is the Shawbridge Boys' Farm in the Laurentians, 75 kilometers north of Montreal. [6]

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References

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  5. Wilton, Katherine (2021-10-19). "Batshaw pledges to improve services to Indigenous youth". Montreal Gazette . Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  6. "Batshaw Website - What We Do".