Refugee Support

• Welcoming, settlement assistance, information.
• Housing search assistance.
• French courses.
• Drop-in daycare.
• Training for parents.
• Tax clinic.

Welcoming of immigrants who have newly arrived to Outaouais and support with integration.

• Welcoming, referrals and accompaniment.
• Connections with institutions, resources and other government services.
• Assistance in finding housing and signing a lease.
• Enrollment in school and francization courses.
• Assistance in filling out forms.
• Support in navigating in the healthcare system.
• Guidance for initial settlement steps: explanations for the first grocery shopping, opening a bank account, assistance with purchase a phone, public transport guidance, assistance in finding daycares, personal advice and support, photocopy and fax service.
• Integration support: pairing programs, interpreter and translator bank, integration into the school system, mediation, sponsorship, employment resources referrals, document certification.
• Information sessions about living in a new host community, rights, responsibilities, the notion of citizenship, etc.

Reception, support, awareness-raising, and advocacy for refugees and asylum seekers.

• Information and support.
• Sponsorship Program: connecting refugees with groups or individuals who wish to sponsor them.
• Twinning Program: connecting refugee women with Montreal residents to create intercultural ties and facilitate integration.
• Detention Program: weekly legal information visits for refugees detained at the

Laval' Immigration Detention Centre.

Afghan women grouping seeking to empower socially isolated immigrant women.

• Adapted programs, self-development workshops and promotion of team-based projects.
• Courses: English and French, computer, yoga.
• Services for seniors.
• Catering service: Afghan food cooked by a senior women group.
• Accompaniment for new immigrants.
• Intergenerational skill exchange.
• Help for sick people who are in need of a translator in Dari, Pashtu and sometimes in Russian.
• Volunteer opportunities for McGill students in social education engagement to get credits.
• Social worker and social intervention service for newcomers.
• Reception of school supplies donation.
• Tax clinic for participants.

Supporting and defending the rights of new migrants from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer communities in a perspective of solidarity.

• Information and referrals to available resources.
• Support groups: general, lesbian and queer, trans and non-binary, homosexual youth.
• Individual accompaniment: access to services, immigration process.
• Organizational training: inclusion and anti-oppressive practices, awareness of issues affecting LGBTQIA+ migrants and refugees in Montréal, relationship between colonization and criminalization in the world, LGBTQIA+ terminology.
• Various social activities.
• Legal, economic and social rights advocacy group.
• Awareness campaigns.

Diversified services to ethnoculturally diverse communities.

• Food bank, online registration form: bookeo.com/acomm-ca/customer
• Latino community café.
• Professional training: Business start-up, Sales Consulting, Accounting.
• Certified translations: French, English, Spanish.
• Administration of oaths.
• Possibility of doing internships.
• Authorized civil marriage celebrations.
• Newcomer Settlement Services.
• Christmas baskets.
• Tax clinic for members and volunteers.

* Information and referral. * Objectif Intégration (OI): intensive or part-time integration courses, in person or by distance learning, covering the history of Quebec, the job market, etc.

• Help with integrating immigrants and workshops on settling in.
• Job search assistance: CV writing, cover letters, job search information sessions, mock interviews.
• Part-time francization courses.
• Social activities: end-of-year party, sugar shack and summer picnic for members.
• Swearing-in of documents.

Help and support to newcomers in need.

• Welcoming and integration, information and orientation.
• Housing search assistance.
• Legal advice on immigration matters.
• Job search support.
• Support for the establishment of families in rural areas.
• Referral to appropriate resources.

Volunteer mutual aid network answering certain types of emergencies.

• Emergency food and material assistance.
• Health clinic providing minor emergency care for people without access to healthcare (homeless individuals, immigrants).
• International humanitarian trips.
• Community fridge.

Welcoming and support

• Welcoming and assistance for newcomers' settlement.
• Information and referral.
• Assistance with administrative procedures, family reunification, permanent residence and sponsorship applications.
• Intercultural pairing.
• Southeast Asian women's club: knitting, physical exercise, meditation, French workshops, etc.

Seniors

• Abuse prevention.
• New horizons: activities for seniors.

Education

• French course: beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.
• French and English conversation clubs.
• Interpretation and translation.
• Computer introductory courses.

Employment

• Job search assistance: information on the job market, individual assistance, skills assessment, preparation workshop, search for internships in companies.
• Academic and professional guidance.

Community action

• Social development partnership.
• Cultural outings.
• Collaboration.

Organization of intercultural rapprochement through various projects.

• Accompaniment of people from immigrant backgrounds in order to facilitate their integration into the host society, and more specifically to people with precarious status (asylum seekers, refugees, undocumented migrants, etc.).
• Personalized, free and confidential referral services to help newcomers find resources for housing, food aid, financial aid, employment, legal advice, access to healthcare, information on individual and working rights, etc.
• Assistance and support in the legal process for immigrants.
• Mobilization and citizen involvement: popular education on intercultural communication and multi-ethnic contexts, creation of tools for intercultural rapprochement.
• Femmes-relais and Hommes-relais interculturels: professional integration program for immigrant women and men in order to train them to accompany the newcomers.
• Service point for issuing identity and residence cards for people with no or precarious status.
• Support for francization: discussion workshops in French.
• Support for organizations and schools to facilitate the inclusion of immigrants.

Employability assistance.

• Job search assistance.
• Entrepreneurship.
• School and professional information.
• School drop-out prevention.
• Passeport pour ma réussite program.
• Welcoming service for asylum seekers: employment integration, educational and professional information and personal recovery.
• Residential snow removal.

• Small appliances donations.
• Information and referral.
• Assistance with filling out forms and for accessing government services.
• Homework assistance in primary schools.
• Culture-bridging program in schools and in the neighbourhood.
• Fight against racial profiling in housing search, fight against racism.
• Addiction and school dropout awareness for youth.
• Sociocultural activities for youth.
• Christmas dinner.

Integration of African culture into Montréal and Québec realities.

• Welcoming and accompaniment of newcomers of African origin and others.
• Support for the development of initiatives and networks promoting integration and inclusion.
• Activities and events for the creation of fraternal networks.
• Intercultural and interreligions dialogue activities.
• Coffee-meeting.
• Room rental.

Legal aid services provided by lawyers or notaries, in civil and social law, family, matrimonial, criminal and prison, administrative, youth protection, young offenders and immigration.

• Representation before a first instance or appeal court, as plaintiff or defendant.
• Assistance in certain cases expressly provided for in the Legal Aid Act.
• Legal consultation.
• Phone consultation, available 24/7, for detention or custody.
• Legal information regarding rights and obligations of legal aid recipients.
• Community involvement.
• Complaints reception.

Help to Syrian people.

• Benefits events: concerts, special evenings, etc.
• Collaboration with charitable organizations: financial support to Canadian organizations working in Syria and support for the integration of newcomers.
• Study bursaries for newcomers (continuing education).
• Promotion of Syrian culture through various events.
• Public and media awareness on issues related to refugees from the Middle East.

Immigration

• Reception, referral, information and guidance.
• Certification of documents.
• Technical assistance in the processes and assistance in filling out the forms.
• Assistance in finding housing.
• Help with the settlement of newcomers.
• Francization, French classes and conversation workshops.
• English classes.
• Computer classes.
• Citizenship course.
• Pairing between Québec families and newcomers.
• Tax clinic.
• Daycare during activities.

Employment

• Employment: job search workshops, resume writing, individual monitoring, placement, networking, etc.

Rights

• Legal clinic for people on low income.

Psychosocial support

• Psychoeducational clinic.
• Individual and group support for immigrant women, discussion workshops.
• Psychosocial support and advocacy workshops for immigrant men.

Food

• Collective kitchens.

Recreational activities

• Outings, social, physical and educational activities for families.
• Manual, crafts and sewing workshops.
• Summer camp.
• Family holiday camp.

Shelter for newcomers.

• Listening and support.
• Amenities included: meals, community kitchen, laundry room, Internet access, clothing.
• On-site services: help filling out forms, nurse.
• On-site donation collection.

• Food and equipment assistance.
• Information and referral.
• Classes: computer, embroidery and crafts.
• Group activities: outings and trips.
• Coffee chats.
• Christmas baskets for people already benefiting from the food assistance service.

• Information sessions on alcoholism, drug addictions, addictions (with or without a substance) and violence.
• Guidance, referral and intervention.
• Individual or group psychosocial intervention.
• Anger management program for people who come voluntarily or for people referred by the courts of Greater Montréal, the DPJ, other institutions or organizations.
• Integration and social reintegration activities for people who have been in prison.
• Compensatory work program.
• Intervention in cases managed by criminal lawyers, SPVM officers, probation officers, DPJ workers or other professionals: theft, physical assault, crimes associated with drug abuse or dependency, conjugal or domestic violence, or violence in the romantic relationships of young people.
• Intervention in crisis situation and in a traumatic context.
• Homelessness prevention and intervention.
• Support for people seeking political asylum in Canada.
• French workshops.
• Popular education workshops (French).
• Promotion of healthy lifestyle habits.
• Weekly food distribution.
• Sociocultural, educational and leisure activities: dance, photography, music, theater, sports, celebrations linked to Latin American traditions.