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This first-time initiative of making a list for Youth Protection (DPJ) is meant to reduce the trauma of children who undergo the difficult circumstance of living apart from their families. It is also meant to encourage more families in the community to foster care, said Emilie Boucher Gauthier, a social worker at the KHC. \u201cWe want to involve the community in facing this sad reality: we need foster families in the territory,\u201d said Gauthier. 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This first-time initiative of making a list for Youth Protection (DPJ) is meant to reduce the trauma of children who undergo the difficult circumstance of living apart from their families. It is also meant to encourage more families in the community to foster care, said Emilie Boucher Gauthier, a social worker at the KHC. \u201cWe want to involve the community in facing this sad reality: we need foster families in the territory,\u201d said Gauthier. 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This first-time initiative of making a list for Youth Protection (DPJ) is meant to reduce the trauma of children who undergo the difficult circumstance of living apart from their families. It is also meant to encourage more families in the community to foster care, said Emilie Boucher Gauthier, a social worker at the KHC. \u201cWe want to involve the community in facing this sad reality: we need foster families in the territory,\u201d said Gauthier. 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