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By Robert Frank<\/b><\/p>\n

\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a boy under five living in Laval and don\u2019t speak French or English, it\u2019s a coin-toss as to whether you\u2019re at-risk. According to Quebec\u2019s first-ever survey of toddlers, non-francophone Laval children under five are far more vulnerable than the provincial average.<\/p>\n

\u201cLanguage is definitely a factor,\u201d acknowledged regional health authority promotion and prevention coordinator Silvio Manfredi. \u201cHalf the children in Laval have one or both parents born overseas. If you don\u2019t speak either [official] language and were born outside the Canada, there\u2019s a 41 per cent change that you are at-risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Language is the biggest factor for toddlers who face the biggest risk, as well as where their parents were born. Add in the finding that boys fare far worse than girls, and the rate reaches nearly half. A notable exception is French-speaking children of immigrants, whose much-lower level of risk aligns with the offspring of old-stock French-speakers.<\/p>\n

Kids from low-income and single-parent families also face elevated risk, the study found, who are concentrated in central-southern Laval and form the majority in some spots in districts like Chomedey and St. Vincent de Paul, where immigrants typically settle when they first arrive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have a snapshot of the new reality in Laval,\u201d Manfredi told The Suburban.<\/i> \u201cToday, Laval is Quebec\u2019s third most-popular destination for immigrants, after Montreal and Longueuil. It has had a big impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said in an interview that the new data from the survey will help to improve public policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important not to be fatalistic,\u201d Manfredi urged. \u201cThat information is useful to help guide our actions, taking into consideration the immigration factor here. We\u2019re already doing something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, the Laval regional health authority hosted a confab to review the situation and urge the 150 participants to bring together a broad spectrum of public agencies to work together toward a solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s everyone\u2019s responsibility,\u201d Manfredi explained, \u201cnot just the health and social services system. \u201cIt has to be a regional effort that involves school, municipal and immigration officials. We should all mobilize and work together, and that\u2019s precisely what we\u2019re doing. We already have a regional plan which takes that into consideration and have already implemented steps locally to help improve the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally we have statistics about very young children,\u201d he concluded. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time that we have that. We\u2019re going to build on that during the coming years. When the results of the next survey in 2017 are compiled, we hope to see an improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nTots whose mother tongue is French fare far better than those who don\u2019t\u2014whether they\u2019re born here or abroad.<\/b><\/div>\n

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\nTots living in poverty are concentrated in several hotspots.<\/b><\/div>\n

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