Blind People

• French-language media broadcasting all described video content.

• Activity centre offering 21 workshops structured around 4 themes: education, art and creativity, health and well-being, community participation.
• Weekly socio-cultural outings.

• Employability development.
• Job placement, integration and maintenance.
• Individual counselling and group training to help identify and develop creative solutions within the employment research process.

Promoting the rights of blind, deaf-blind and partially-sighted people.

* Raising awareness.

• Peer support.
• Annual scholarship program to support post-secondary students.
• Blind rights champions: preparation and submission of legislative briefs.

Assistive devices loan programs to maximize independence, safety, maintenance in the living environment and integration.

• List of assistive devices covered by the programs: www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-system-and-services/assistive-devices-disabilities-and-handicaps/assistive-devices-programs-for-persons-with-a-physical-or-intellectual-disability-or-an-autism-spectrum-disorder-asd#c3062

Community Action

• Accompaniment and transportation in collaboration with volunteer action centers of Gatineau.
• Reception, information and referral.
• Weekly column on deals offered by food markets.
• Collective advocacy for people living with a visual impairment.

Sports, leisure and culture

• Informative meetings for members.
• Annual picnic.
• Christmas dinner.
• Outings for special events.
• Tandem bike project.
• Dinners in the dark.
• Coffee club.

• Assistance and support in procedures to access services.
• Information.
• Newsletter for members.
• Monthly coffee-chats.
• Activities and outings.

• Development and organization of sports activities.
• Recruitment and training of volunteers for the practice of varied sports.
• Public awareness through information sessions, conferences and sports demonstrations.
• Planning and organization of annual fundraising events.

• Mutual aid group.
• Awareness and advocacy of rights and interests, including in the paratransit sector.
• Assistance, tactile interpretation (through touch and hand movements) and services in Braille.
• Training for facilitators and interprets.

Grouping of people living with macular degeneration.

• Phone support network.
• Information and referral to existing medical, technological and sociocultural resources.
• Information sessions led by knowledgeable people.
• Prevention and awareness for the public, health professionals and government authorities.

Promotion of autonomy for people living with a physical or sensorial disability.

• Learn-to-Sail Program: theoretical and practical courses.
• Learn-to-Race program.
• Adapted recreational sailing trips.
• Group trips for schools, day camps, and community organizations.
• Theme nights for members.
• Social activities.

• Telephone referral.
• Intervention and support.
• Discussion days: conferences and workshops.
• Support groups.
• Production of specialized documents.

Promotes access to an inclusive leisure experience for people living with a disability through consultation, training and support.

• Facilitated Access to Recreation for Individuals with Disabilities program (FARIDP).
• Loan of adapted equipment: racing wheelchair, adapted sledge with skates, water access ramp, etc.
• Training.
• Support for integration into day camps.
• Universal accessibility in leisure activities.
• Companion Leisure Card (CAL).
• Consulting services.

Promoting health, well-being and social participation of people living with a disability through the development of sport, recreation and physical activity.

• Sports and recreational activities.
• Information, referral, counselling, training.
• Companion Leisure Card (CAL).

• Information, referral.
• Consultation.
• Promotion of the importance of being physically active and practicing stimulating recreational activities in an effort to improve wellbeing and healthy lifestyles.
• Companion Leisure Card (CAL).

• Creation, development and adaptation of services that give access to general and specialized written documentation and information.
• Broadcasting of information that helps the growth of knowledge, the participation to socio-professional activities and that allows an autonomous access to existing resources.

Information service that provides resources on diseases and issues affecting users of the health care system and their close ones.

• 15 thematic booklets on various subjects and illnesses.
• Lists of organizations, of relevant websites, as well as reading and film suggestions.

• Adapted books loan service: braille books, audio books, digital documents and cross-media works.
• Computer workstations on site.
• Sending books by mail upon request.

Improving the living conditions of people living with a visual impairment or a loss of mobility.

• Guide and accompaniment service without a car.
• Support calls and friendly visit.
• Help with correspondence.
• Assistance in finding housing.
• Referrals.

• Loan and consultation of books and audiovisual documents.
• Computers, Internet access and printing devices.
• Work rooms.
• Story time on-site or by phone in French, English, Dari, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese.
• Language development and early literacy workshops.
• Book clubs for children, teenagers and adults.
• Planète livres: reading and writing workshops for adults learning French.
• French and English conversation workshops.
• Homework assistance for children and teenagers.
• Soda: youth space with recreational and artistic activities.
• Fab Lab: creative manufacturing with various tools and computers.
• Computer workshops.
• Movie projections.
• Board games and videogames.
• Intercultural workshops.
• Biblio-Santé: information services for caregivers.
• Adapted books and CCTV for people with a visual disability.
• Conferences and workshops.