Seniors

Affordable housing with services for seniors.

• Studio, 3½ and 4½.
• Heating, electricity and cable.
• Surveillance service 24/7.
• 5 meals a week service.
• Hairdressing service.
• Recreational activities: knitting, bingo, singing, dance, etc.
• Outings.

Services and information for the English-speaking community.

• Information and referral to services offered in English.
• Information sessions and support groups for caregivers.
• Senior Wellness Centre for physical and mental health.
• Parent and tot activities.
• Physical, social, cultural and creative activities.
• Other points of service: 118 Principale Street, Suite 220, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts; 508 Principale Street, Lachute; 2 de Ravin Street, Sainte-Thérèse (in the Christian Church of Sainte-Thérèse).

Services and information for the English-speaking community.

Individual, family and youth

• Social and emotional learning activities for children.
• Parenting Circle: weekly discussion meeting to learn new parenting skills, kids are welcomed and will be kept entertained with an animator.
• Prenatal classes.
• Post-natal services.
• Tiny Tots: fun activity session for young kids.
• Living without violence: anger management program for men, online and confidential.
• Support and referrals.
• Neurodiversity workshops for kids, young adults and their caregivers.
• Online workshops and conferences.
• Tax clinic.

Seniors and caregivers

• Caregivers support group.
• Workshops for caregivers.
• Chair yoga.
• Patient Navigator.
• Support and referrals.
• Informative workshops and conferences.

Education centre for retirees.

• Lectures on general culture, health, personal development, politics, sex education, history, economics.
• Language courses: Spanish beginner, intermediate and advanced level, Italian.
• Computer courses: introduction to Apple computers, tablets, telephones.
• Exercise classes: Yoga, weight training, Qi gong, cardio, self-defense.
• Art and crafts classes.
• AROBAS theatre company.
• Coeur Tournesol choir.
• ARO'Band music group.
• Social clubs: walking club, billiards club, Velosanté bicycle club, le Pixelliste photography club, book club, travelers club, golf club, ARO'mitié club for people who are alone.
• Volunteer opportunities.

Promoting volunteerism and community initiatives.

• Reception, training, referral and follow-up of volunteers.
• Automated security calls service for seniors.
• Services to organizations: needs analysis, recruitment assistance, volunteer selection and referral, volunteer management consultation and training.
• Bonhomme à lunettes service point.

• Accompaniment-transportation to medical appointments, with or without a car, by volunteers.

Accompaniment of immigrant women in a process of cultural, economic and social integration in Outaouais.

• Information sessions on the first steps of settlement: important documents to obtain, opening a bank account, looking for housing, childcare services and school registration, the Québec school system, financial aid and income tax returns, services offered by community organizations, diploma equivalencies, employability services, etc.
• French classes for women and their families.
• Administering oaths for documents.
• Individual psychosocial support for immigrant women and women who are victims of violence.
• Accompaniment in administrative procedures.
• Valorization of immigrant women who are entrepreneurs and promotion of their products.
• Babel: group for seniors to break isolation through group activities, physical activity, basic English courses, etc.
• Espace parent: group discussion workshops for parents on the education system in Québec, the DPJ, children integration, etc.
• Workshops on democratic and Quebecois values.
• Subsidized daycare in Hull and Cantley.
• New winter clothes at low cost.
• Ready for back to school: distribution of school supplies at low cost.
• Coffee-meetings.

• Friendly phone calls and visits.
• Community meals.
• Bingo.
• Volunteer recruitment.
• Accompaniment of shopping and medical appointment.

• Accompaniment for medical appointments by volunteers.

Accompaniment of seniors who live outside of Montréal and who need to travel to Montréal to receive health care.

• Help in planning the stay.
• Help in finding affordable housing for the stay.
• Accompaniment by a volunteer during the stay: welcome upon arrival, accompaniment to medical appointments, friendly visits, friendly calls, help with groceries.

• Reception and integration of immigrants: individual meetings, needs assessment, referral service, interpretation and translation service, information sessions on the functioning of the host society.
• Assistance in filling out forms.
• Information and guidance for the change of status for international students and obtaining work permits.
• Assistance in finding housing.
• Psychosocial services.
• Cultural transition assistance.
• Objective Integration (OI) session.
• Family: early learning and development activities, le Nid des Anges drop-in daycare and assistance with school registration.
• Individual meetings with Intercultural Community Interventionists: ICI-Health and ICI-Youth.
• Recreational, sports and cultural activities for seniors.
• Ampèrâge: elder abuse prevention, telephone and friendly visits, matching with a volunteer.
• Training in business start-up.
• Francization.
• Courses: English and computer.
• Tax clinic.

Seniors

• Sending friendship and comfort cards and memory games by mail.
• Friendly phone calls.
• Percussion workshops.
• Cooking workshops.

Teens and young adults

• Civic engagement and mentoring program.
• Menstrual calendar club (education and awareness about menstruation).
• Social, recreational, and sports activities.
• Workshops: self-esteem, leadership, violence prevention.
• Cooking workshops.

Immigrant women

• Support and guidance.
• Workshops on combating violence against girls and women.
• Workshops: capacity building and awareness-raising on the rights of immigrant women with precarious status.

General Services

• Black History Month: combating racism and raising awareness about the contributions of Black people to Québec and Canadian society.
• Christmas food baskets for vulnerable women with children 16 years old and under.
• Christmas reception.
• School supplies for vulnerable women with children 16 years old and under.

• Food assistance.
• Meals on wheels.
• Monsieur Lunettes service point: glasses at a low price.
• Tax clinic.
• Accompaniment-transportation.
• Ludi-cité activities: board games.

• Transportation and accompaniment to medical appointments and shopping by volunteers.

• Information.
• Workshops, recreation, courses and outings.
• Community meals.
• Meal delivery.
• Foot care.
• Community intervention: initiative de travail de milieu auprès des aînés en situation de vulnérabilité (ITMAV).
• Tax clinic.

Community outreach work for vulnerable seniors.

• 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.

• Community outreach work for vulnerable seniors: phone listening, psychosocial support, referrals and friendly visits.

• Adapted sport activities for seniors: volleyball, fitness, stretching, cardio, aerobics without jumping, gyrokinesis, etc.

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.