Services & Supports for children and their families!
Find free activities and workshops for families with young children on a full range of topics, including legal information, starting kindergarten, developmental skills, and more. We also offer mental health and wellbeing check-ins and referral service for parents needing help accessing health and social services within the Outaouais.
Information & Referral Services
Our Playgroup program provides a social-support network for English-speaking parents of young children (0-5 years) that includes health promotion activities and information.
Connect with us to find out more and register for our next get-together!
Our series of Parent-Child Workshops are facilitated by Speech Language Pathologists who offer hands-on support for families whose child may have a speech or communication delay or disability. This series of workshops is based on CHEO’s First Words program.
Find out more about these workshops and how to register!
Meet with other parents and talk about real-life parenting experiences. Learn and develop the best parenting strategies to support your child and about available community services and resources. Find out more!
Our Family Resources Series offers a wide range of topics for families with children, and the professionals who work with them. Special guests include professionals from the CISSS de l’Outaouais, school staff at the Western Quebec School Board,, social workers and Speech-Language Pathologists. Find out more!
You can now borrow one of our Let’s Play & Talk Kits from from community partners throughout the Outaouais region.
The Kits include speech & language resources, games and children’s books. Find out more!
Our Aylmer office now hosts a minibiblio! A little library brought to you through our partnership with the Fraser Hickson Library in Montreal. This initiative, part of the minibiblioPLUS project, is designed to make books more accessible and promote a love of reading within our community. Find out more!
Find online tools, a webinar on The First Transition to School with special guests from the WQSB and information about our School Transition Kit. Learn more!
Family with a special need or disability? Check-out our Online Directory for families with children, youth and adults with special needs. We are continually adding more resources. Find out more!
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Explaining the Law in Plain Language
Find a list of legal information resources, including community organizations based in the Outaouais, who offer free to low-cost legal information, services and supports.
Daycare Services
Quebec has established its own unique approach to daycare for children 0-4, with subsidized and recognized Child Care Centres (CPEs) and Subsidized Family Home Daycares where spaces are offered at reduced contribution for infants through school-age children.
Community Resources for Women
Find useful health and social service resources including support groups, shelters, crisis & non-crisis supports, and more!
Financial Supports for Children, Youth and Adults with Special Needs
Find various financial supports available from different levels of government and non-profit organizations.
