Les Centres de la jeunesse et de la famille Batshaw - Batshaw Youth and Family Centres

as a former resident of a group home that was run by this place, its horrible. i had to stay in my room for like 30 mins alone because i said something back to a staff after they were rude to me.

They stepped into a child custody case and sorted it out for the mother. The ink wasn't even dry in Civil court (50/50) when they ruined my life. They called themselves Social Workers...they weren't. They were so biased, it still bothers me 14 years later.

After I was falsely accused by my ex Patricia Puyau of sexually and physically abusing our son 8 years ago, I didn't think I would be facing many precious years dealing with this inept and out of control facility. Most of the workers have been bullies, such as Jeremy Paul and Larry McDonald, but lately I have been dealing with some kinder and more sensible social workers, namely Darlene Job and Lyn Emond. I am doing my best to stay in my sons life but they are making things very difficult to do so. Still, Batshaw is a sad place full of evil spirited employees. I love my son dearly, he is innocent in all of this but has had to put up with this tragic situation for no reason other than the disturbed mind of his own mother.

Batshaw is at it again failing children just like the failed me. Well guess what I am over 18 and no longer have to see the monster you made me see!! how do you sleep at night?I was a very young child and was crying begging not to go see my dad" but what did y'all do? Give him visitation even though he was not treating me properly and EVEN said that he only wants me when I am in elementary and potty trained. WHAT PARENT can get visitation along with that?!! Clearly he saw me and wanted to profit. All at the hands of YOU I was mistreated for years causing many issues into adulthood. The social workers paint a fake narrative they don't care about the wellness of the children or anything. You would think that would be top priority when dealing with kids.How are you gonna let a parent threaten their kid if they cancel visitation again they will withhold them from their parent with custody?? It's sick to me. Not to mention them saying different things about my family while I sat there under the table listening. But oh no y'all think he is a good parent and want me to see him by the time I was 12 I cut down my visitation for every 2nd weekend twice to 1 time and now I can finally say I am done thank god.Would give 0 stars if it was possible. I never had a childhood thanks to you poor excuses of people."

There are a bunch of liars and bullies working here. I will never forget what they have done to me and my family. They used to put videos of a baby whining and tell me this is what you sound like when you talk. Believe it or not, that is not even close to the worst thing that they have done. The goal of Youth Protection is supposed to be to protect the youth, but instead they bully the youth and protect their favorite parent instead. The people who work here make you cry and rip apart your family instead of helping the family and making you happy. It sucks because this has potential to be an amazing organization to help youth and families, but instead it has turned into an organization with bullies working there, who's goal is to rip families apart. For anybody who is in the Youth Protection system now, I wish you all the best and good luck! We will all get through this together!

as a resident in a batshaw group home The staff are very very abusive and untrusted as everything you tell them they write it all down to use it against you in court and they never let you have freedom as they threaten to call the cops if you go outside for fresh air and they think they have full control over you well i been in the system since my early teens as im 16 now and im telling you this dont trust any group home staff or any batshaw worker as they will end up ruining you and your kids lifes i hope batshaw closes down to be very truthful #F*CKTHESYSTEM

I have recently been in contact with social workers at Batshaw to find my birth mother. They have all been excellent and more helpful than I would have expected given my other experiences with health care in Quebec. It's probably a very thankless job but I'm super impressed.

In June 2016 I visited Batshaw with a view to seeing the farm) for the last time for sentimental reasons (I was at the Boy's farm and training school in 1961). I attributed my stay there to teaching me the value of freedom and a benign form of incarceration that steered me from a life of juvenile crime to follow a straight and narrow path which kept me out of prison and led to prison sentences for most of my friends who were not caught committing crimes like I was.Very unfortunately I was not allowed to venture past the barrier to the parade grounds for a short visit. Not even if I were to remain in my rental car for a short circuit around the grounds. I could not understand this position as when it was the Boy's farm visits were common from boys who were there in the past. I am 69 years old now and very disappointed that I could not visit. It appears that the institution is now a locked down prison. I am quite sad that I could not relive the friendships that I had there in the past from my recollections and have a short visit. I can understand security but I came from Vancouver and did not know any of the inmates there. So congratulations BATSHAW you killed a boyhood memory for me and one less bucket list for me to experience before I die. This is what happens when you have inflexible regulations imposed by bureaucrats."

ive had a file open for the last 5 years and it has not closed yet, me and my dad have never got along and no matter how many times i express myself they will not let me live with my mom, ive brought my dad to court so many times and its not safe at home, they wont let me live with my mom full time but whenever i mention foster care they seem to be open to placing me. social workers are very rude and judgemental, ive had 4, educators dont listen to my opinions, its overall made everything worse

Tough job. Employees have to face verbal and physical abuse as well as low wages. Staff is not appreciated so there’s a huge turnover. As a result, the children don’t have consistency which Is what staff is told they need the most? There are some great staff who love working with families and children unfortunately, due to the working conditions many of the good ones leave and your left with bitter insensitive staffers .. respect to those who stay.