Mental Health and Addictions

Emergency and short-term housing.

• Accompaniment in steps: housing and job search, etc.
• Autonomous access to Internet and to the phone.
• Shower.
• Clothes exchange.
• Identity authentication for the RAMQ.
• Postal service.
• Health services.

• Accommodation for up to 21 days.
• Emergency overnight accommodation.
• Reception and assistance.
• Help with administrative procedures.
• Showers, hot meals, snacks, and coffee for homeless people staying at the shelter.
• Distribution of sterile injection equipment.
• Distribution of naloxone.
• Health prevention and distribution of sanitary equipment.

Stable housing.

• Assistance with daily management skills.
• Social and recreational activities.
• Weekly follow-up or upon request.

Self-help group for adults who grew up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional home.

• 12 steps program.

• Accompaniment.
• Leisure activities.
• Day activities.
• Coffee meet-ups.
• Respite care for teenagers and adults.

• Psychosocial intervention.
• Training on various mental illnesses.
• Awareness program on mental illnesses.
• Assistance in the submission of a psychiatric assessment request.
• Monthly mutual aid group in Châteauguay.
• Conferences, documentation.

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).

Home environment for people living with an intellectual disability or a mental health issue.

• Accommodation.
• Care.

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.

• Helping relationship, support, accompaniment and referral.
• Information on rights and recourses.
• Advocacy of rights, awareness and training.
• Representation and pressure to change certain practices that violate people's rights.

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.

• Organized outings and activities.
• Community meals.
• Group discussion.
• Training and information workshops.
• Social support.
• Board games.

• 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.

• 3 to 6 months intensive outpatient therapy followed by social reintegration.
• Drugs, alcohol and gambling addiction treatment in individual and external follow-up.
• Prevention and education.
• Crisis intervention.
• Psychosocial assessment and follow-up.
• Individual, group or family therapy.
• Case management.
• Workshops: relapse prevention, anger management, self-esteem, etc.

• Prevention in schools for youth.
• Support for parents.
• Themed activities.
• Youth centres and emergency housing.

Self-help group for adults who grew up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional home.

• 12 steps program.
• List of meetings: eada.qc.ca/reunions

Afghan women grouping seeking to empower socially isolated immigrant women.

• Adapted programs, self-development workshops and promotion of team-based projects.
• Courses: English and French, computer, yoga.
• Services for seniors.
• Catering service: Afghan food cooked by a senior women group.
• Accompaniment for new immigrants.
• Intergenerational skill exchange.
• Help for sick people who are in need of a translator in Dari, Pashtu and sometimes in Russian.
• Volunteer opportunities for McGill students in social education engagement to get credits.
• Social worker and social intervention service for newcomers.
• Reception of school supplies donation.
• Tax clinic for participants.

Intervention, prevention and support services aimed to enhance quality of life.

• Mental heath support.
• Counselling for families, couples and individuals.
• Financial education: certain condition may apply.
• Support groups and customized workshops for parents.
• Employment: professional training, employability workshops and job search assistance in partnership with Services Québec: certain condition may apply.
• Employers: assistance to find qualified candidates with specialized skills.
• Immigration: support for newcomers with integration activities and employment assistance.

Social accompaniment service.

• Accompaniment by peer helpers, focusing on social and recreational aspects, on a weekly basis.
• Reception and listening to break isolation.
• Support and follow-up during recovery.