Intergenerational Activities

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.

Alzheimer awareness and support to people living with Alzheimer and their close ones.

• Individual and family counselling.
• Activity centre: in-person and online socializing and stimulation activities for those diagnosed.
• Professional training: training in the workplace.
• Support groups for spouses caregivers.
• Sharing Sounds of Music: online music program for individuals who experience the effects of sundowning.
• Educational conferences and training for caregivers, health care professionals and the public.
• Therapeutic yoga for caregivers of people living with dementia.

Gather Centre-Sud neighbourhood parents from all origines in a meeting, creation and resourcing place to capitalize their knowledge and expertise for the benefit of the community.

• Activities and workshops for families and parents.
• Workshops: cooking, dance, arts and crafts, reading stimulation, popular education, discussion and sharing between different cultures and generations.
• Participation in neighbourhood revitalization activities.

Services for seniors.

• Listening and referral.
• Recreational, sports and artistic workshops.
• Outreach work initiative for seniors living in a vulnerable situation (ITMAV).
• Computer classes.
• Monthly and intercultural luncheons and collective kitchens.
• Volunteers training.
• Free conferences.
• Intergenerational activities and meeting place Café Entre-Nous.
• Bonhomme à lunettes service point.
• Accompaniment-transportation to the grocery store.

Services for seniors.

• Listening and referral.
• Recreational, sports and artistic workshops.
• Outreach work initiative for seniors living in a vulnerable situation (ITMAV).
• Computer classes.
• Monthly and intercultural luncheons and collective kitchens.
• Volunteers training.
• Free conferences.
• Intergenerational activities and meeting place Café Entre-Nous.
• Bonhomme à lunettes service point.
• Accompaniment-transportation to the grocery store.

• 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.

Centre for seniors.

Home care

• Takeaway meals.
• Day workshop for the preservation of autonomy and the respite of relatives.
• Outreach work initiative for seniors living in a vulnerable situation (ITMAV).
• PADI program: day centre for seniors living with an intellectual disability.

Housing

• Housing Faubourg Jean-Marie-Vianney.
• HébergeVac Centre: respite care.

Leisure and community action

• Intergenerational reading program.
• Carpentry workshop, sale of handicrafts.
• University of the Third Age.
• Sports and creative activities and courses.
• Room rental.
• Catering service.
• Volunteer opportunities.

• Telephone listening.
• Assistance for groceries and shopping.
• Intergenerational activities.
• Collective kitchens.
• Meals on wheels: homemade frozen meals, gluten-free.
• Community parties.
• Friendly phone calls and visits.
• Outreach work initiative for seniors living in a vulnerable situation (ITMAV).
• Physical activities.
• Various conferences and trainings.
• Digital workshops: email management, tablet manipulation, etc.

• Active listening, referral, information.
• Drop-in respite.
• Bazaar and on-site retrieval of donations of used item.
• Collective kitchen, thematic breakfasts.
• Summer family camp, events.
• Family and intergenerational outings.

* Educational and pedagogical outings.

Community centre for seniors.

• Educational, social and cultural activities.
• Sporting and wellness activities.
• English and Spanish courses.
• Computer courses.
• Intergenerational projects.
• At-home hairdressing.
• Community meals.
• Monthly breakfast.
• Group transportation for errands and shopping.
• Conferences and discussions.

• Listening, support and referral.
• Information and accompaniment.
• Friendly lunches.
• Outreach work initiative for seniors living in a vulnerable situation (ITMAV).
• Help regarding abuse and negligence towards seniors.
• Intergenerational activities.
• Social and cultural activities.
• Volunteering.

Community centre.

Food * Collective kitchen. * Nurturing forest: fruit tree planting.

Childhood and youth

• Drop-in daycare for 0 to 5 years old.
• Homework assistance.
• Drop-in breastfeeding program.
• Toy library: loan of games and toys.
• Pandas playgroup (0 to 5 years old): parent-child workshops.

* Petit cuisiners: cooking classes for 6 to 12 years old.

• Activities for 12 to 17 years old, in partnership with Avenue des jeunes.
• Entre nous filles: discussion group for Grade 5 and 6 girls.

* Day camp and spring break camp.

Material assistance * Opération habit de neige: distribution of winter clothing. * Shared-store for school supplies. * Recovery of used clothing.

Education * French courses. * Spanish courses.

Social events * Café populaire, a space for socializing. * Social and recreational activities: sewing and knitting classes, karate classes, line dancing, board game group, danse cardio classes, physical activities for seniors.

• Community parties.

• Promotion of volunteering.
• Recruitment and training of volunteers.
• Support with volunteer management and recruitment for organizations.
• Services to individuals: volunteer grocery assistance, friendship calls.
• Intergenerational activities.
• Accompaniment and transportation to medical appointments by a volunteer.
• Tax clinic.

Therapeutic and preventive activities programs for seniors.

• Assessment of needs and development of an individualized intervention plan.
• Various activities: physical exercises, memory stimulation, manual activities, therapeutic games, conferences, socialization activities, intergenerational activities, etc.
• Support group, individual consultations, training workshops, respite service and conferences for caregivers.
• Transportation back and forth to the centre.
• Meals.

• Academic dropout prevention program: accompaniment, support, active listening, animation and education.
• Learning activities tailored to the needs of the youth.
• LAO-Desjardins program: school support.
• PARL'Oméga program: development of social skills.
• Omég'Alliance program: early detection of vulnerable youth and implementation of individualized actions based on identified needs.
• French learning program.
• Educational summer day camp.
• Intergenerational reading.
• School tutoring.
• Workshops and the En Route to Secondary program.
• Parenting skills support workshops.
• Parent-child workshops on social skills.

* Addiction prevention.

Projects, services and educational activities offered in partner schools with the objective of promoting school retention and educational success for children and teens.

• Homework assistance.
• Project Lire et faire lire: intergenerational storytelling activities.
• Project GRAFIQ: French learning and integration group in Québec with a host class.
• Correspondence between seniors and children.
• Video storytelling.

• Pairing seniors who have a free room with students who, in exchange for housing, provide a presence or small services.

Promotion of Creole and of Afro-Caribbean and African-American cultures.

• Creole language classes in person and online.
• Translation of Creole to and from French, English and Spanish.
• Kepkaa library: sale of books, edition and literary events.
• Mois du créole à Montréal festival.
• Painting courses.
• History and culture courses.
• Intergenerational activities.
• Quebec-Caribbean-Indian Ocean Book Fair.
• Awareness.

Integration of the Moldovan and Romanian community into Québec society.

• Intergenerational cooperation.
• Assistance to newcomers: integration training, individual counselling, information brochures, employment training and referral.
• Forum on the website.

• Reception and helpline.
• Meals on wheels.
• Culinary activities.
• Home visits and friendly calls.
• Pairing with a volunteer.
• ITMAV: community outreach work for vulnerable seniors.
• Various socialization groups.
• La grande rencontre: annual home meetings and visits.
• Intergenerational and intercultural meetings.
• Digital training workshops.
• Activities in various living environments to break the isolation.
• Christmas baskets for members.