Friendly Visits and Safety Calls

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.

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

• 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.

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.

Services for seniors.

• Home assistance for varied light housework.
• Shopping assistance.
• Technology assistance.
• Crutches, cane, walker and wheelchair loans.
• Friendly calls.
• Home visits for people living alone.
• Conferences.
• Listening and referral.
• Assistance with forms.
• Physical and recreational activities.
• Community lunches.
• Partnership with the Carrefour Communautaire Montrose for the meals on wheels program and for medical transportation.
• Tax clinic.

• Information and referral.
• Community meals.
• Meals on wheels.
• Social, physical, recreational and educational activities.
• Home visits.
• Friendly and security phone calls.
• Line dancing, Zumba, yoga, monthly trips.
• Financial aid for taxi trips to medical appointments.

Community outreach work for vulnerable seniors.

Autonomous action community organization.

• L'Antre and Garage des jeunes youth centres: recreational, socio-educational, scientific, sports and cultural activities, music recording studio at L'Antre, training and sports room at the Garage.
• Garage des jeunes located at 8935 de Forbin-Janson Street.
• L'Antre located at 915 Hochelaga Street.
• Street work: listening and support, distribution of STI prevention and sterile consumption material, accompaniment and referrals to varied resources, training for opioid overdose prevention.
• Community intervention in low-income family housing: listening and support, leisure and prevention activities, social cohesion amelioration and mediation, accompaniment and referrals to varied resources.
• Socio-education workshops in schools and other addiction prevention partners, primary to secondary school transition and varied workshops.
• Naloxone distribution.

Community outreach work for vulnerable seniors.

Maintenance of seniors in the community.

• Friendly calls.
• Outreach work initiative for seniors living in a vulnerable situation (ITMAV).
• Conferences and information.
• Monthly community lunches.
• Transportation and accompaniment to medical appointments by volunteers.
• Volunteering opportunities.

• Social, recreational, cultural and sports activities.
• Education: aging and gerontology.
• Intercultural bonding program.
• Support and mutual aid groups.
• Friendly phone calls.
• Psychosocial support.

Community outreach work for vulnerable seniors.

Community outreach work for vulnerable seniors.

• Information, support and referral.
• Discussion, reading and writing workshops.
• Accompaniment and support for daily communication needs.
• Friendly visits.
• SAPPA program: assistance for caregivers, visits of social workers and speech language therapists.
• Adapted activities: photography workshops, computer workshops, choir, etc.
• Promotion of the rights and interests of people with aphasia.
• Awareness.

Support to people living with multiple sclerosis and their close ones.

• Information about the disease.
• Individual support, collective advocacy.
• Financial support.
• Visits at home and in care centres.
• Activities for members.
• Holiday meals and activities for members.

Improving the living conditions of people living with a visual impairment or a loss of mobility.

• Guide and accompaniment service without a car.
• Support calls and friendly visit.
• Help with correspondence.
• Assistance in finding housing.
• Referrals.