Correctional Services

• Helping relationship, support, accompaniment and referral.
• Information on rights and recourses.
• Advocacy of rights, awareness and training.
• Representation and pressure to change certain practices that violate people's rights.

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.

Reintegration services for women offenders.

• Individual or group meetings focused on the particular needs of women: job and housing search, communication with their child, accompaniment to medical and legal appointments, etc.
• Day centre: collective kitchen, nutrition, gardening and various workshops for women offenders and their children.
• Visits at Maison de transition Thérèse-Casgrain.
• Compensatory work, community services and volunteering for women offenders at the centre.
• Reception, listening and referral.

• Social and recreational activities: card games, pockets, bingo, etc.
• Community dinners.
• Theme dinners: Valentine's Day, Christmas, etc.
• Thrift store Saint-René-Goupil: clothing, small household items, etc.

* Volunteer opportunities. * Compensatory work.

Assistance and information to people with a criminal record.

• Pardon services: information, support and accompaniment regarding the criminal record suspension process and non-disclosure of criminal information.
• Information service: information and support about Quebec's correctional system, rights and responsibilities in prison, criminal records and record suspension request.
• Preparation for detention: support and accompaniment to future inmates.
• Information and awareness-raising workshops for adults: Le casier judiciaire; impacts et recours, Le pardon, pour tout le monde?

* Information and awareness workshops for teenagers: La sexualité, c'est bien plus que du sexe, Ados, crimes et Internet.

Services in alternative and restorative justice.

• Application of extrajudicial measures and sanctions: accompaniment in compensatory and community work, Jeunes citoyens awareness group, restitution, letter of apology, donations, letter of reflection, victimization group, peer influence group.
• Consultation with victims of a crime committed by a person between 12 and 17 years old.
• Mediation between victims and teenage offenders.
• Neighbourhood mediation.
• Awareness.

Group of organizations providing services to people who have or have had issues with justice.

• Research programs.
• Public awareness.
• Crime prevention.
• Training.
• Information on the impacts of a criminal record and on pardon application: www.casierjudiciaire.ca

• Information and legal documentation.
• Help to fill out forms and write letters.
• Accompaniment and support.
• Monitoring of public curator.
• Advocacy group for human rights related to public curatorship.
• Representations, conferences, media events and public announcements.

Community residential centre.

Accommodation

• Single room with Internet access, telephone and air conditioning.
• Meals.
• Helping relationship.
• Free laundry service.
• Sociocultural activities.
• Supervision of community and compensatory work.
• Budgetary assistance.
• Support for employment integration.

Post-housing services

• Follow-up and assistance.
• Meals at a low cost.
• Free laundry service.
• Access to a telephone.
• Computer accessible for job search.
• Sociocultural activities.

Professional association of lawyers of Québec.

• Complaints reception: www.barreau.qc.ca/en/general-public/filing-complaint-against-lawyer/how-file-complaint-against-lawyer.
• Online lawyers directory: www.barreau.qc.ca/en/find-a-lawyer

* Guides « Seul devant la cour »: www.fondationdubarreau.qc.ca/guides-juridiques?

• Urgence avocat (all regions, immigraton, and juvenile): arrest hotline.
• Info-Criminal Law: phone line for informations provided by volunteer criminal lawyer.
• Housing phoneline: legal consultation for landlords and tenants.
• JurisRéférence: small claims plan assistance, help with finding a lawyer or a mediator and phone legal assistance.
• Info-Déonto (for lawyers only): telephone line for questions about professional ethics.
• Info-Harcèlement (for lawyers and interns): hotline for reporting sexual harassment within the profession.

* Overseeing professional legal practice and ensures the protection of the public. * Promotes law primacy.

Organization working against human trafficking.

• Education and public awareness.
• Contribution to the improvement of existing services and the creation of new services and programs.
• Assistance relationship for people living with the consequences of a situation of exploitation or exchange of sexual services and close ones.
• Training and awareness-raising for a variety of clienteles.

First instance justice Court hearing lawsuits relative to municipal by-laws, infringements to the Code de la Sécurité routière and some criminal infringements (drunk driving, thefts under $5000 and misdeeds).

• Tickets payment or contestation.
• Recovery of unpaid amounts.
• Compensatory work.

Prevention of juvenile delinquency.

• Day centre for young at risk of dropping out.
• Manual and self-knowledge activities.
• Development and application of extrajudicial and judicial measures under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
• Information and consultation with victims of crime.
• Prevention of crime in schools.
• Community support in the implementation of programs related to conflict resolution.

First instance justice Court hearing lawsuits relative to municipal by-laws, infringements to the Code de la Sécurité routière and some criminal infringements (drunk driving, thefts under $5000 and misdeeds).

• Ticket payment or contestation.
• Recovery of unpaid amounts.
• Compensatory work.

First instance justice Court hearing lawsuits relative to municipal by-laws, infringements to the Code de la Sécurité routière and some criminal infringements (drunk driving, thefts under $5000 and misdeeds).

• Ticket payment or contestation.
• Recovery of unpaid amounts.
• Compensatory work.

Legal aid office in civil and family law.

• Food baskets.
• Collective and educational kitchens.
• Tax clinic.
• Compensatory works.

Campbell's Bay Court Services Administration.

Couple and family * Adoption. * Curatorship and guardianship. * Psychiatric evaluation and institutional care. * Marriage and civil union. * Family mediation. * Alimony and child support. * Separation and divorce.

Courts * Civil division. * Criminal and penal chamber. * Director of criminal and penal prosecutions. * Criminal prosecution. * Criminal prosecution.

Youth * Youth Division. * Youth file. * Youth prosecution. Money and property * Fines. * Voluntary deposit. * Bankruptcy. * Seizure. * Will.

Disputes * Small claims (claim under $15,000). * Civil action (claim of $15,000 or more). * Steps to follow to file a small claims claim: www.quebec.ca/en/justice-and-civil-status/small-claims/filing-claim/process-help-applicant * Small claims mediation (mandatory for claims of $5,000 or less). * Arbitration.

Services * Quebec Court. * Superior Court. * Juries. * Advertising rights. * Customer service. * Financial services.

First-instance justice Court hearing lawsuits relative to municipal by-laws, infringements to the Code de la sécurité routière and some criminal infringements (drunk driving, thefts under $5000 and misdeeds).

• Ticket payment or contestation.
• Recovery of unpaid amounts.
• Compensatory work.

• Reception and referrals.
• Occasional projects.
• Activities for the integration of young and adults offenders through community work in partnership with Trajet Jeunesse, Sécurité Québec, Carrefour Jeunesse-Emploi, etc.
• Recovery and distribution of donations.
• Thrift store.
• Furniture delivery at low prices.
• Bonhomme à lunettes service point.