The provincial government is spending $3 million over the next five years on a new program to help youth.
Critics say the government is just restoring half the money it cut from budgets in recent years.
Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux and Youth Minister Lucie Charlebois said because of the problems a group home in Laval has been having, it will be the first region to benefit from funding.
The region will get $650,000 over five years which will go toward hiring a co-ordinator between police, social workers, and other officials.
"They will work together as one single team to prevent and whenever they feel that one person, one young woman is at risk they will intervene, on a very personal level all together, as a team," said Coiteux.
The minister added this is a prevention program that will target the sexual exploitation of youth.
He also hoped it would lead to more arrests and convictions of pimps.
PQ critic Jean-Francois Lisée said the funding was simply a half-measure.
"IT took a major crisis for the government to move half an inch in the right direction," said Lisée.
He pointed out the Liberals cut $1.1 million per year to prevent teen prostitution, and this new funding is less than what was removed.
The union at the Laval group home that has been subject to multiple runaways said it was happy to get new funding, but was not certain that this amount would have a significant impact.
