Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec

What Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec does

Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec (RCJEQ) is a Montreal-based nonprofit network organization that coordinates, represents, and supports 111 member Carrefours jeunesse-emploi (CJEs) operating across all 17 administrative regions of Quebec. Founded as a network in 1997, with its roots in the first CJE established in Outaouais in 1984, RCJEQ employs 11-50 staff at the central level while the wider network employs more than 1,500 people and serves approximately 200,000 youth aged 15-35 annually with employment assistance, educational success support, well-being resources, autonomy guidance, entrepreneurship programming, and civic engagement initiatives.

The organization's product and service portfolio spans four primary pillars: (1) the NUM'EMPLOI digital competency assessment project, co-developed with CERESO (centre d'expertise at Cégep de Lanaudière), which provides tools to measure and develop digital job-search competencies for youth and employment counselors; (2) an annual Congress that convenes over 300 CJE professionals for training and knowledge exchange; (3) publications, policy briefs, and the Ma Voix Compte youth consultation platform (over 5,000 respondents in 2025); and (4) representation, advocacy, and shared services for member CJEs. There is no commercial software platform; all services to youth are delivered free of charge through the member CJE network.

RCJEQ's business model is government-funded nonprofit operations: it does not generate commercial revenue, charge user fees, or accept venture capital. The 2021 historic $114.3M investment from the Quebec government via the Commission des partenaires du marché du travail (CPMT) underpins its core funding, with additional partnership contributions from CERESO and congress exhibitors (CNESST, Public Service Commission of Canada, Université de Montréal, Cégep à distance, and sector committees). Its GTM motion is hybrid: network coordination among 92 active member CJEs, complemented by an event-driven annual congress and policy-driven media relations positioning RCJEQ as the authoritative voice on Quebec youth employment issues.

Name

Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec

Legal name

Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec

Website

https://rcjeq.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec (RCJEQ) coordinates 111 youth employment centers across Quebec's 17 regions, serving approximately 200,000 youth aged 15-35 annually with employment, education, well-being, and entrepreneurship support through a nonprofit, government-funded network model.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: RCJEQ is a nonprofit organization primarily funded through government partnerships. The 2021 announcement confirmed a historic investment of $114.3M from the Quebec government through the Commission des partenaires du marché du travail (CPMT).

Go-to-market motion1 record

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Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

RCJEQ is a non-profit network that coordinates, supports, and represents 111 Carrefours jeunesse-emploi (CJEs) across Quebec's 17 administrative regions. Through its member organizations, the network delivers integrated youth employability, education, well-being, autonomy, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement services to roughly 200,000 young people aged 15 to 35 each year, free of charge at the point of use. RCJEQ also acts as the unified representative voice of CJEs in dealings with the Quebec government and other partners.

Product overview

The Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec (RCJEQ) is a non-profit network organization that does not offer a commercial software product or platform. Instead, it provides coordination, representation, and support services to its 111 member Carrefours jeunesse-emploi (CJE) locations across Quebec. The RCJEQ's offerings include the NUM'EMPLOI digital skills project (developed with CERESO), an annual Congress for professional development and networking, direct youth employment support programs through member CJEs, and publications including annual reports and policy briefs.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• RCJEQ Network Coordination and Representation Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Youth accessing full-time employment see average income increase of $126,800 over five years
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Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Congress Exhibitors and PartnersminorOthers · 21 October 2025Annual congress features exhibitors including government bodies (CNESST, Commission de la Fonction Publique du Canada), educational institutions (Cégep à distance, Université de Montréal), sector committees, and various organizations supporting youth employment.
• CERESOcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCERESO (centre d'expertise at Cégep de Lanaudière) provides technical expertise for the NUM'EMPLOI project, contributing evaluation tools for digital competencies and technopedagogical content development.

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Direct peers

• Boys and Girls Club of Canada: Boys and Girls Club of Canada is a national federation of locally governed clubs delivering youth-development, education, and employment-readiness programming through 725+ service points. The franchise/network model mirrors RCJEQ's hub of CJE member organizations serving young Canadians.
• Youth Employment Services (YES): YES is a Canadian nonprofit organization that delivers employment services specifically for youth, including job-readiness training, mentorship, and employer connections. It is the most direct functional peer in the youth-employment space, although geographically focused on Ontario rather than Quebec.
• YMCA du Québec: YMCA du Québec operates a province-wide network of community-based centers delivering youth programming, employment support, and social-inclusion services across the same 15-35 demographic. Like RCJEQ, it coordinates a federated network of locally rooted service points, making it a strong operational analog.
• Centraide du Grand Montréal: Centraide du Grand Montréal is a Quebec nonprofit network that coordinates, funds, and represents a coalition of community agencies delivering social services including youth support. Its model of aggregating and redistributing funds while supporting frontline member agencies is structurally analogous to RCJEQ's role vis-à-vis the 111 CJEs.
• Réseau québécois pour la réussite éducative (RQRE): RQRE is a Quebec nonprofit network that coordinates regional actors working on educational success, a core thematic overlap with RCJEQ's educational-success mandate. Its network-coordination model and policy-advocacy positioning are directly analogous to RCJEQ's role.

Broad incumbents

• United Way Centraide Canada: United Way Centraide Canada is a national federation mobilizing charitable funding and supporting community agencies across Canada. It shares RCJEQ's logic of aggregating resources to support a federated network of local service organizations with youth-relevant mandates.
• Fondation du Grand Montréal: Fondation du Grand Montréal is a major Quebec philanthropy operating at broader scale, distributing grants to community organizations including youth-serving agencies. While not a direct delivery peer, it is comparable as a funder-coordinator in the Quebec nonprofit ecosystem that overlaps with RCJEQ's constituency.

Emerging players

• Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité (RDÉE) Canada: RDÉE Canada is a francophone-network of organizations supporting economic development and employability for francophone minority communities across Canada. It is comparable to RCJEQ as a network coordination body focused on employability, but serves a different geographic and linguistic segment.

Regional players

• Petite Maison (La) — family and youth services coalition: Petite Maison operates as a Montreal-based community organization delivering youth and family front-line services. It is comparable as one of the types of community-based organizations that RCJEQ coordinates and represents within the broader Quebec youth-services ecosystem.

Others

• Réseau des CÉGEPS et Collèges du Québec: The Quebec CÉGEP network is a publicly funded Quebec-wide network delivering post-secondary education and workforce training, including transition-to-work programming. It is comparable as a Quebec-wide institutional network serving youth in transition to the labor market, although operating at a different scale and funding model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/RCJEQ
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