Clothing

Help desk.

• Organization and funding of a summer day camp and a monthly one-day respite for young adults living with a disability.
• Semi-annual bazaars, held in May and November: sale of clothing and other items.

Emergency and short-term housing.

• Support, referral and assistance with procedures (assistance with housing and job search).
• Day services: access to internet and a phone line, shower.
• Clothes exchange service.
• Needle exchange.
• Postal service.
• Naloxone distribution.

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.

Reception of individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and day-to-day assistance with basic needs and in seeking a better quality of life and well-being.

• Social reintegration.
• Dining room.
• Clothing depot.

* Barber and hairdressing service.

• Day centre: coffee, showers, art workshop, music studio, computers, etc.
• Medium and long term housing.
• Health: chiropractic care for residents and people in post-housing follow-up, optometry, denturology, dental care, medical and nursing care.
• Regional Solidarity Trust: budget management assistance, bank account opening, check cashing, account payment, debts consolidation, etc.
• Social Assistance and Support Program, socio-professional reintegration.
• Compensatory work.
• Tax clinic.
• Distribution of new injection equipment to drug users (free service).

Neighbourhood centre.

• Reception.
• Thematic workshops for children: drawing, cooking, crafts.
• Distribution of snowsuits for children.
• Activities for teenagers: animated discussion group, social evenings.
• Yoga classes.
• Social café.
• Neighbourhood parties.
• Family activities: outings to the park, soccer, kick ball, etc.
• Distribution of school supplies.
• Christmas baskets.

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.

Material assistance services, in partnership with other nonprofit organizations.

• Donations of essential items: clothing, small kitchen items, small furniture, etc.
• Matching of large donations: large furniture, appliances, and beds.
• On-site pickup of donations.
• Job search assistance and information.
• School supplies.
• Christmas baskets and activities.

General services * Welcome, listening and support.

• Information and referrals.
• Emergency food and clothing assistance.
• Nursing care: drug screening, ITSS, pregnancy test, etc.
• Workshops.
• Regional consultation on homelessness.

24-hour emergency accommodation * Safe place with meals.

• Shower, laundry, bathroom.
• Shared kitchen and living room.

* Listening, referrals and assistance with procedures.

Street work * Listening and information on various subjects (drugs, sexuality, etc.)

• Confidential, non-judgmental support.
• Prevention and awareness raising.
• Crisis intervention.
• Intervention with runaway or suicidal youth.
• Drugs screening and referrals.
• Distribution of naloxone kits.
• Distribution of consumption material.

Residential stability * Accompaniment and social reintegration with permanent housing search.

• Contact with landlords with follow-up.
• Assistance in filling out forms: social insurance card, health insurance card, etc.
• Creation of a personalized action plan.

Community recreational centre for youth and families.

* Children 6 to 12 years old: cooking, sport and cultural activities, homework help, winter clothing donations, snack distribution, outings.

• Teenagers 12 to 18 years old: cooking workshops, video games, homework help, themed evenings, outings, training and volunteering.
• Seniors: improvisation workshops.
• Adults: sport activities.

Food assistance and mutual aid for disadvantaged individuals and families.

• Food assistance.
• Social and professional reintegration.
• Helping relationship.
• Homelessness prevention: accompaniment in finding and maintaining housing, referrals.
• Collective kitchens.
• Cooking workshop.
• Families in action: activities aimed at breaking isolation of families and strengthening family ties.
• Elders in action.
• Bien au chaud program: collection and distribution of winter clothing for children.
• Magasin-partage scolaire: distribution of school supplies.
• Magasin partage de Noël: distribution of Christmas baskets for members.
• Opération habit de neige: distribution of winter clothing.
• Community garden.

Thrift store.

• Sale and on-site recovery of clothing and shoes for the whole family, kitchenware, small appliances, decorations, books and magazines, jewels, fabrics, toys.
• Possibility of donations to families in need.

Day centre.

• Support and referral.
• Daily meals: breakfast and snacks.
• Clothing depot, showers.
• Distribution of hygiene products.
• Social involvement program: Propulsion and Brigades.
• Computer room.
• Distribution and recovery of injection, inhalation and prevention equipment.
• Supervised consumption site.
• Distribution of fentanyl test strips.
• Distribution of naloxone.
• School implication: cleanliness brigade and intervention.
• Donations accepted: warm clothing, coats, sleeping bags, hygiene products.

Alternative mental health support group.

• Day centre.
• Telephone intervention.
• Thematic workshops.
• Advocacy.
• Social reintegration assistance.
• Clothing bank.

• Food bank.
• Welcoming of newcomers.
• Christmas baskets.
• Distribution of clothing and furniture.

• Second-hand store and recovery of used items: clothing, books, crockery, etc.
• Food aid: food vouchers.

Support to families.

• Respite.
• French learning program for children 3 to 5 years old and animated stories.
• Avenir de Femmes program: 23-unit cooperative building for single mothers.
• Project 10-19: organisation of activities and workshops for youth.
• Secondaire à ma manière: workshops and activities for 6th graders.
• Improvisation.
• Workshops and activities.
• Francization workshop.
• Mutual aid group.
• Collective kitchen.
• Coffee chats.
• Le Vestibule: free thrift store.
• Toy library.
• Free tax counter.

• Prevention of youth homelessness.
• Food assistance.
• Free snacks and lunch.
• Material assistance: clothing and hygiene products.
• Shower, washer, dryer.
• Nurse available once a month.
• STBIs screening.
• Pregnancy tests.
• Distribution of sterile injection equipment and crack pipes.
• Distribution of contraceptives and lubrificants.
• Social and cultural activities.
• Listening and referral.

• Support and guidance.
• Weekly food assistance.
• Meals and snacks available on-site all day.
• Assistance with procedures related to lease issues.
• Help finding housing.
• Help finding a job and returning to school.
• Clothing donations.
• Donations of hygiene products: soap, shampoo, menstrual products, etc.
• Distribution of naloxone.
• Distribution of contraception.
• Advocacy.
• Promotion and awareness-raising.

Harm reduction approach and personal empowerment development.

• Community meals.
• Distribution of hygiene products.
• Distribution of condoms and other health protection products.
• Distribution of safe consumption material.
• Accompaniment and moral support in the Café Parenthèse environment through informal conversations.
• Accompaniment and support in the completion of administrative procedures (forms, job search, housing search, etc.).
• Men's health and well-being project.
• Storage space (lockers) for people experiencing homelessness.
• Bike-sharing project: access to a free ecological means of transport all year round.
• Warm up your street project: offer of products (sleeping bag, blankets, gloves, mittens, hats, neck warmer, warm socks, etc.) accessible at all times.
• Tapaj project: paid work by day on different work platforms.
• Coordination of a volunteer committee.
• Establishment of a peer helpers project.
• Coordination of a project committee allowing the realization of projects with a social vocation.
• Music workshops and classes.
• Various arts workshops and courses.
• Various activities to socialize, break isolation and create a sense of belonging to the group.
• Conferences, shows, animations related to various issues, including drug addiction.
• Warming centre during cold weather.

Women's centre working towards breaking the isolation of women in Argenteuil, contributing to improving their living conditions, and empowering them.

• Reception, listening, support and referral.
• Mutual assistance and accompaniment in different processes.
• Clothing and used items counter: clothing and children items.
• Freezer and community pantry.
• On-site recovery of used items: women clothing and children items.
• Drop-in day care centre.
• Social breakfasts and lunches.
• Various support groups.
• Various educational activities.
• Recreational and social activities.
• Class actions.
• Advocacy and representation.