Food Assistance

Residual materials management and fight against waste.

* Distribution of surplus food to members at 297 Notre-Dame Street.

• Thrift shop.
• Home collection of bulky items and recycling: paper, cardboard, mixed plastics, metal and electronic bulky items, ink cartridges, clothing in good condition, other materials on request.
• Recovery of surpluses and unsold goods.

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

• Gift certificates distribution for Christmas.
• Christmas baskets delivery for people living alone who cannot move around because of age, a disability or illness.

• Food counter with home delivery for people with reduced mobility.
• School lunches.
• Back-to-school sharing store: Operation Backpack.
• Christmas baskets.
• Healthy cooking workshops.

• Food bank.
• Social reintegration.
• Subsidized housing.

* Public writer service: Help with writing or understanding a document, administrative service: filling out government forms and administrative procedures, employability service: resume writing, help with job application forms, social service: drafting applications for social assistance, social security, food security, family assistance, etc, informal service: writing letters or postcards for loved ones.

Improvement of immigrant women's living conditions.

• Reception, information, referral and listening.
• Daycare for children 2 to 5 years old.
• Psychosocial intervention.
• Customized francization classes and French conversation groups.
• Specialized French classes in collaboration with the MIFI.
• Discussion groups.
• Educational and cultural activities.
• Food assistance.
• Christmas baskets.
• Donation of used clothing, household items and furniture through pairings.
• Sewing workshops.
• Creative workshops: knitting, crochet, crafts, embroidery.
• Yoga.
• Computer classes.
• Interpretation and translation.
• Tax clinic.

• Food assistance: perishable and non-perishable goods and food vouchers.
• Christmas baskets.

Support

• Listening, information, and referral helpline.
• Individual appointment: accompaniment, active listening, information.
• Discussion groups by videoconference.
• Emergency Aid Program: pharmacy gift cards to pay for hormone replacement therapy and grocery store gift cards.

Socialization

• Place for meeting and discussion.
• Monthly social activity in Montréal.

Awareness

• Conferences, training, awareness and demystification.

• Food assistance.
• Financial assistance.

Resource centre for people living with HIV-AIDS or hepatitis C.

Support

• Case management: guidance and referral.
• Support groups led by a member and a counsellor.
• Thematic groups led by counsellors on serostatus disclosure and testimonies.

Material assistance

• Safe sex materials.
• Food and dietary supplements buyers club, information on nutrition and treatments.

Education

• Information on treatments.
• Education on prevention.
• Training and conferences on the medical and psychosocial aspects of HIV and hepatitis C.
• Educational workshops for schools, groups and community centres.
• Sex education toolkit for teachers.
• Naloxone kits distribution.
• Distribution of new injection equipment for drug users.
• Interventions in festive environments.

Perinatal social nutrition program for pregnant women in vulnerable situations.

• Nutritional follow-up.
• Olo coupons for milk, eggs, vegetables, bread, tofu and apples.
• Food assistance.
• Prenatal multivitamins.
• Material support: clothing and diapers for babies, according to stocks available.
• Access to a lactation counsellor and a social worker if needed.
• Prenatal and postnatal workshops for pregnant women and families with newborns.

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.

• Share-your-food: community fridges.
• Sale of products at social prices.
• Gleaning in the field.
• Volunteer opportunities.

• Weekly and emergency food assistance.
• Collective kitchen.
• Budget consultation.

• Emergency shelter.
• Regular and emergency food assistance.
• Community meals.
• Warming centre: reception of people during winter to sleep, wash, eat and wash their clothes.
• Social activities.
• Individual counselling and outreach workers on site.
• Collection of clothing donations on site.
• Support and social reintegration.
• Winter warming centre.

• Food bags distribution.
• Food bank.
• Christmas baskets and school supplies for members.

Food bank.

• Food assistance.
• Christmas baskets.

• Welcome and information.
• French language assistance.
• Family support.
• Food assistance and emergency aid.
• Christmas baskets for members.
• Donation matching.
• Summer day camp.
• Tax clinic.

Support services for student parents and pregnant single mothers who are studying.

• Listening.
• Coffee-meetings.
• Clothing depot.
• Breastfeeding corner.
• Workplace.
• Monthly collective kitchen.
• Food basket every two weeks.
• Family outings and parent-child activities.
• Tax clinic.
• Christmas celebration and baskets.

• Recovery and sale of second-hand clothing, toys and items at affordable prices.
• Used items recovery on site and collected at-home: food, clothes, small household items, toys, books, small furniture.
• Community fridge in partnership with La Fringale.
• Information and referral.