Vision Care

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).

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

Financial coaching, support and advice.

• Individual or family budget consultation.
• Budget classes.
• Information workshops and training activities: budget, credit and consumption, debt.
• Sud-Ouest mutual assistance loans: occasional financial assistance in partnership with Desjardins (Desjardins Mutual Assistance Fund).
• Assistance with Hydro-Québec's payment arrangements.
• Advocacy of consumer's rights.
• Directory of resources and references: acefsom.ca/en/resources-and-useful-references
• Bonhomme à lunettes service point.

• Protection and promotion of consumers' interests.
• Consumer-related referral and assistance.
• Budget consultation.
• Information and education workshops for groups.
• Non urgent small loans from the Fonds d'entraide de la Rive-Sud.
• Assistance with Hydro-Québec payment arrangements.
• Bonhomme à lunette service point: low-cost glasses.

• Protection and promotion of consumers' interests.
• Consumer-related referral and assistance.
• Telephone assistance.
• Budget consultation, budget courses, conferences for groups.
• Mutual Aid Fund loan.
• Meetings on debt solutions.
• Assistance with Hydro-Québec payment agreements.
• Bonhomme à lunettes service point: low-cost glasses.

Education, information and awareness in matters of personal finance, responsible consumption and housing.

• Budget consultations.
• Defense of the rights of consumers.
• Defense of the rights of tenants.
• Desjardins Mutual Assistance Fund: budget assessment and small loan.
• Help with Hydro-Québec payment agreements.
• Old fridge replacement program with Hydro-Québec.
• Bonhomme à lunette service point: low-cost glasses.

• Members' representation.
• Information to the public.
• Ophthalmologists' directory: www.amoq.org/bottin-des-ophtalmologistes

Professional association.

• Varied online information on eye health.
• Representation and advocacy of economical, professional, political and social interests of members.
• Online directory of Québec's optometrists: www.aoqnet.qc.ca/recherche.php

• Collective kitchens.
• Bistro lunches.
• Coffee meetings.
• FLORAPHIL creations: sewing workshops.
• Choir.
• Bowling.
• Summer day camp.
• Summer activities for adults.
• Leisure outings.
• Advocacy of rights.
• Bonhomme à lunette service point: low-cost glasses.

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.

Raise awareness and prevent illiteracy.

• Levelling up in French, math, general knowledge.
• Francization courses in small groups.
• Workshops and computer troubleshooting: computers, laptops, tablets and cell phones.
• Sewing workshops.
• Bookstore: used books for sale at low prices.
• Bonhomme à lunettes service point: low-cost glasses.

* Lesson support service. * Games library.

• Free game rental.

• Workshops: language stimulation, carpentry, creativity, computer, GYM-AVC, cardio, theatre, cognitive stimulation.
• Mutual aid groups: monthly open group for caregivers, group for people who have had a stroke and their close ones.
• Psychosocial support for people with aphasia and caregivers.
• Support and information, monthly dinners and seminars for caregivers.
• Group outings.
• Bonhomme à lunettes service point.

Nomadic prescription optician.

• Directory of locations and hours: www.bonhommealunettes.org/en/schedule
• Sale and manufacture of low-cost glasses.
• Partnership with community organizations.
• Donations to community organizations for each pair of glasses sold.

• Employability: writing and revising of CVs, interview simulation, job seeking strategies, information on labor market, multi-services room for job search.
• Specialized programs for mothers, young families, young people with less than a high school diploma, immigrants, asylum seekers with work permits and visible minorities.
• Academic and vocational guidance.
• Introductory computer workshops.
• French conversation workshops.
• Bonhomme à lunettes service point.
• Sun Youth Organization service point.

• Popular education.
• Food assistance.
• Community lunches.
• Intercultural and intergenerational collective cooking workshops.
• Collective kitchen.
• Ma boîte à provisions: buying group.
• Citizen involvement and mobilisation.
• Mental health program: socio-professional integration programm for people with mental health issues.
• PASS Action weekly mental health mutual aid group.
• Bonhomme à lunettes service point.
• Christmas baskets for members.

Optics and eyewear trainees supervised by optician teachers for eyewear and contact lens clinic.

• Eye exam carried out by a graduated optometrist.
• Low cost purchase, adjustment and replacement of contact lenses and glasses.
• Advice on the choice of lenses and glasses by students in the Techniques d'orthèses visuelles.

• Complete eye exam by a certified optometrist (outside prescriptions accepted).
• Sale, adjustment and repair of eyeglasses and sunglasses.
• Sale and adjustment of contact lenses.

Food assistance

• Social grocery store: discount food.
• Community gardens.
• Meals on wheels.
• Christmas baskets.

Material assistance

• Family thrift store.
• Bonhomme à lunettes point of service: low-cost glasses.
• Loan of orthopaedic equipment.
• School supplies.

Seniors

• Friendly calls.
• Sécuricab: automatized security calls at home.
• Leisure workshops and socialization activities for people 55 years and over.
• Transport and accompaniment to medical appointments and for shopping.

Community

• Assistance with filling out forms.
• Recruitment, training and coordination of volunteers.
• Tax clinic.

• Promotion of volunteer work.
• Food assistance.
• Meals on wheels.
• Friendly visits and calls.
• Opération septembre: partial payment of school fees for parents in need.
• Thrift store: sale of clothing, dishes, accessories, books, toys and very small furniture at affordable prices.
• Christmas baskets.
• Bonhomme à lunette service point: low-cost glasses.
• Medical accompaniment and transportation, and help with small errands provided by volunteers.