Health

Organization facilitating access to psychological assessment and treatment services by covering part of the cost.

Guidance and support for people living with or who have experienced cancer and their close ones.

• Information and referrals.
• Individual and group psychological support.
• Multisensory room.
• Support for all bereaved people, regardless of the cause of death.
• Palliative and end-of-life care.
• Monthly workshops: physical well-being and stress management, healthy lifestyle habits, etc.
• Conferences and training: attentive presence, emotional release techniques (TLE), etc.
• Documentation centre: library and video.
• Gym.

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).

• Helpline and information on tinnitus.
• Support helpline.
• Referral to regional professional resources.
• Open mutual aid group every month.

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.

• 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.

Street and outreach work.

• Welcoming, listening, support, assistance and referral.
• Guidance and accompaniment to resources: housing, addiction treatment, food bank, methadone program, etc.
• First aid.
• Bus ticket donations.
• Assistance with mediation between peers and within families.
• Accompaniment to job search assistance resources.
• Housing search assistance.
• Condom distribution and needle exchange.
• Naxolone distribution.
• Distribution of fentanyl test strips.
• Outreach cultural and sports animation work for youth at risk.
• Criminality and criminal gangs recruitment prevention.
• Sexual health, drug addictions, homelessness and violence prevention services.
• Workshops, information and awareness in schools.

Heated or air-conditioned indoor space, depending on the season.

* Clean restroom accessible at all times.

• Chairs and tables to rest.
• Snacks and hot or cold beverages.
• Clothing, shoes and basic supplies available on request.
• Personalized accompaniment: listening, support, referral, information.

• Peer support and accompaniment to appointments at clinics, hospitals, legal offices, court dates and social services.
• Assistance in accessing information regarding legal issues and procedures, such as criminal and penal charges, criminal records, arrest warrants, conditions before court appearances, legal aid, trans-affirmative legal representation.
• Assistance in applying for a change of name and sex designation, refugee status, permanent residency, citizenship, work permits, record suspensions, and compensatory community service work.
• Assistance in understand and evaluating legal risks related to criminalization.
• Monthly community dinner, monthly drop-ins, periodic cultural and educational activities and skill-sharing workshops.
• Referral to trans-affirmative health care (hormone therapy, HIV treatment, and sexual health).
• Distribution of harm reduction supplies (syringes, needles, pipes, filters, kit sniff, filters, condoms and lube), recovery of harm reduction material, distribution of sharps containers, distribution of hormone therapy injection materials, distribution of fentanyl testing kits and distribution of naloxone kits.
• Street and outreach work to trans sex workers' homes, workplaces and community spaces.
• Visit to community members after surgeries or in long-term care homes.
• Substance analysis service, offered by Checkpoint/Cactus.

Meeting place for youth.

• Discussion, information and daily support.
• Music, sports and creative activities.
• Outings.
• Access to equipment: computers, kitchen, music room, sports and circus gear, pool table, ping-pong, foosball, video games, board games, art material etc.
• Homework assistance.
• Popular education.
• Outreach work, intervention and prevention of STDs, violence, addiction and delinquence.

Points of service

• Accès Montréal Office offering information on services and activities: montreal.ca/en/places/acces-montreal-office-ahuntsic-cartierville
• Permit counter: montreal.ca/en/places/permit-counter-ahuntsic-cartierville-0

Information

• Info-collectes: servicesenligne2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/sel/infocollectes
• INFO-travaux for location of infrastructure work: click here
• Consultation of public notices: click here

Services

• Online services: montreal.ca/en/articles/use-our-online-services-4775
• Storage after an eviction: montreal.ca/en/how-to/recover-belongings-storage-after-eviction
• Accès Montréal card subscription.
• Cat and dog licenses.
• Parking licenses.
• Administration of oath.
• Property assessment.
• Information and payment of municipal taxes.
• Ticket information and payment.
• Municipal service intervention requests.
• Low-cost housing application.
• Recovery of dead animals on public and private properties.
• Subsidy for the use of sustainable menstrual products: reimbursement following a minimum $30 purchase of sustainable hygiene products (menstrual cups, washable sanitary pants, washable sanitary napkins and washable inserts).

• Advocacy.
• Sale or loan of specialized equipment for walking.
• Documentation.

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.

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.

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-based healthcare for people living on the margins of traditional healthcare systems.

* Physical and mental health nursing: wound care, urinary tract infections, sore throats and earaches, strep testing, chronic conditions, gastroenteritis, flu-like symptoms, etc.

• Sexual and reproductive health: pregnancy tests, contraception, emergency contraception, STI screening and treatment.
• Vaccination.
• Blood test.
• Psychosocial support.
• Public health harm reduction initiatives: distribution of safe-use supplies, education on safer use, distribution of naloxone, etc.
• Referral to other services within the network.

Various confidential services for youth 12 to 25 years old, with ou without appointment.

* Individual psychosocial follow-up. * Sexual health clinic:contraception, sexually transmitted or blood infections, sexual orientation and gender identity, etc. * Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet. * Housing support: information on housing rights. * Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc. * General legal assistance: understanding of laws and legal support.

Various confidential services for youth 12 to 25 years old, with ou without appointment.

* Individual psychosocial follow-up. * Sexual health clinic:contraception, sexually transmitted or blood infections, sexual orientation and gender identity, etc. * Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet. * Housing support: information on housing rights. * Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc. * General legal assistance: understanding of laws and legal support.

Various confidential services for youth 12 to 25 years old, with ou without appointment.

• Individual psychosocial follow-up.
• Sexual health clinic: contraception, sexually transmitted or blood infections, sexual orientation and gender identity, etc.
• Prevention, education and information on the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and problematic use of the Internet.
• Housing support: information on housing rights.
• Training, employment and finances: educational and professional orientation, help in finding a job, prevention of school drop-out, etc.
• General legal assistance: understanding of laws and legal support.