Legal Assistance and Information

Psychosocial intervention program in various public spaces and semi-private spaces.

• Ensures optimal cohabitation of residents, merchants and employees of the visited locations.
• Accompaniment and assistance in reinsertion.
• Referrals to appropriate resources.
• Daily online intervention reports and assistance.

• Coordination, development, planning and management support of safety and well-being programs.
• Preventive actions, information sessions and citizen involvement.
• Representative of the Montreal Urban Safety Tandem program.
• Community outreach work for vulnerable seniors 50 years old and over (ITMAV): phone listening, psychosocial support, referrals and friendly visits.
• Free and confidential mediation between citizens or organizations.
• La Station: Nun's Island intergenerational community centre, open admission for teenagers from 12 to 17 years old.
• The Little Station Centre for Families: activities for children from 0 to 5 years old and their parents.
• Camp de l'île: summer and spring break day camp for 4 to 12 years old.

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.

• Information sessions on harassment at work, rights and recourses, non-traditional jobs, equality in the workplace and recognition of skills and qualifications.
• Personalized follow-up and accompaniment during job search in non-traditional fields.
• Accompaniment of immigrant women in their process of inclusion in the job market.
• Referral and counselling service for women discriminated against at the time of their hiring or at work.

Individual and collective defence of the rights of people living in poverty, mainly people receiving last-resort financial assistance.

• Individual assistance for citizens in understanding their rights and recourses, and the steps to take to ensure the defence of their rights.
• Conferences, information workshops and discussion groups on economic and social rights and issues related to poverty and social exclusion.
• Representation to public administrations and political bodies concerned with situations where the rights of citizens living in poverty are being violated or threatened.
• Regular workshops and meetings for members.
• Detailed schedule: actionpopulaire.org/nos-activites

Points of service

• Accès Montréal Office offering information on services and activities: montreal.ca/en/places/acces-montreal-office-ahuntsic-cartierville
• Permit counter: montreal.ca/en/places/permit-counter-ahuntsic-cartierville-0

Information

• Info-collectes: servicesenligne2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/sel/infocollectes
• INFO-travaux for location of infrastructure work: click here
• Consultation of public notices: click here

Services

• Online services: montreal.ca/en/articles/use-our-online-services-4775
• Storage after an eviction: montreal.ca/en/how-to/recover-belongings-storage-after-eviction
• Accès Montréal card subscription.
• Cat and dog licenses.
• Parking licenses.
• Administration of oath.
• Property assessment.
• Information and payment of municipal taxes.
• Ticket information and payment.
• Municipal service intervention requests.
• Low-cost housing application.
• Recovery of dead animals on public and private properties.
• Subsidy for the use of sustainable menstrual products: reimbursement following a minimum $30 purchase of sustainable hygiene products (menstrual cups, washable sanitary pants, washable sanitary napkins and washable inserts).

Centre providing assistance, listening and meetings.

• Individual consultation related to various problems: violence, illness, bereavement, addiction, mental health, psychological distress, relational conflicts, financial difficulties, etc.
• Phone listening line.
• Socio-legal and medical accompaniment in the steps following a sexual assault, in a situation of violence, during a separation or divorce, etc.
• Self-help group.
• Meeting with a lawyer by appointment.
• Access to computer stations.
• Information and referral.
• Workshops and thematic conferences.

Various confidential services for youth 12 to 25 years old, with ou without appointment.

* Individual psychosocial follow-up. * Sexual health clinic:contraception, sexually transmitted or blood infections, sexual orientation and gender identity, etc. * Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet. * Housing support: information on housing rights. * Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc. * General legal assistance: understanding of laws and legal support.

Various confidential services for youth 12 to 25 years old, with ou without appointment.

* Individual psychosocial follow-up. * Sexual health clinic:contraception, sexually transmitted or blood infections, sexual orientation and gender identity, etc. * Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet. * Housing support: information on housing rights. * Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc. * General legal assistance: understanding of laws and legal support.

Various confidential services for youth 12 to 25 years old, with ou without appointment.

• Individual psychosocial follow-up.
• Sexual health clinic: contraception, sexually transmitted or blood infections, sexual orientation and gender identity, etc.
• Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet.
• Housing support: information on housing rights.
• Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc.
• General legal assistance: understanding of laws and legal support.

Various confidential services, with or without an appointment, for youth aged 12 to 25.

• Individual psychosocial follow-up.
• Sexual health clinic.
• Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet, etc.
• Housing support.
• Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc.
• General legal assistance.

Various confidential services for youth 12 to 25 years old.

* Individual psychosocial follow-up. * Sexual health clinic. * Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet, etc. * Housing support. * Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc. * General legal assistance.

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• Individual psychosocial follow-up.
• Sexual health clinic.
• Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet, etc.
• Housing support.
• Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc.
• General legal assistance.

Various confidential services for youth aged 12 to 25.

• Individual psychosocial follow-up.
• Sexual health clinic.
• Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet, etc.
• Housing support.
• Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc.
• General legal assistance.

Various confidential services for youth aged 12 to 25.

• Individual psychosocial follow-up.
• Sexual health clinic.
• Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet, etc.
• Housing support.
• Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc.
• General legal assistance.
• Distribution of new injection equipment to drug users (free service).

Various confidential services for youth 12 to 25 years old.

• Individual psychosocial follow-up.
• Sexual health clinic.
• Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet, etc.
• Housing support.
• Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc.
• General legal assistance.
• Distribution of new injection equipment to drug users (free service).

Varied confidential services for youth 12 to 25 years old, with or without an appointment.

• Psychosocial support on a variety of subject: relationship difficulties, mental health, alcohol, drugs, gambling, housing, employment, studies, etc.
• Sexual health clinic: contraception, screening for sexually transmitted and blood infections, gender identity and sexual orientation, etc.
• Juristes Mobiles: individual legal consultations, prevention and awareness by a lawyer from Info Justicw (fixed dates).
• Accompaniment to community and CIUSSS ressources.

• Reception and orientation of newcomers.
• Job search assistance.
• Career guidance.
• Resume writing assistance.
• Punctual psychosocial and material support, referral.
• Arabic lessons for children.
• Conferences on legal issues.
• Varied trainings and conferences.
• Social and cultural activities, celebrations.
• Field trips, outings.
• Promotion of Algerian culture.
• Promotion of intercultural understanding.

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.

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.