Drug Strategy Community Initiatives Fund (DSCIF) Funded Projects - Quebec

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• Ma vie, j'en fais mon affaire!
• Avec l'école... t 'as bonne mine!
• Implantation de formations croisées pour améliorer la continuité des services auprès des jeunes souffrant de troubles concomitants de santé mentale et de toxicomanie
• Programme APTE individuel - Projet de prévention pour les jeunes québécois de 13 à 18 ans à risque de développer un problème de consommation de drogues illicites et autres substances
• Capsules d'informations virtuelles sur le cannabis et l'ecstasy
• Jeunes femmes enceintes et jeunes mères : améliorer l'intégration des services pour mieux prévenir la consommation de psychotropes et ses effets délétères sur le développement de l'enfant
• Outaouais Rural Intervention Program
• Overdose d'imagination
• Approche communautaire par le cœur, l'esprit et le territoire ; intervention auprès des membres des Premières Nations en centre urbain
• Prévenir, un choix de vie!
• Implementation of comprehensive best practice prevention approaches to reduce substance abuse amongst youth
• Libertox

Ma vie, j'en fais mon affaire!

Organization: Dianova Canada

Contact Information:
Mr. Bruno Ferrari
Dianova Canada
1600 Cote de Terrebonne
Terrebonne, QC J6Y 1G8
Telephone: 514-875-7013
Email: dianova@dianova.ca
Dianova Canada Web site

Description
The objective of this 38-month project is to help at-risk youth between the ages of 18 and 25 years adopt healthier lifestyles through the development of skills and competencies in the areas of interpersonal relationships, self-esteem and anger and stress management, and gain a better understanding of the problems associated with the abuse of mind-altering drugs, such as at-risk sexual behaviour and blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections.

Avec l'école... t'as bonne mine!

Organization: Les Oeuvres de la Maison Dauphine Inc.

Contact Information:
Ms. Huguette Lépine
Les Oeuvres de la Maison Dauphine Inc.
14 Dauphine Street
Québec, QC G1R 3W8
Telephone: 418-694-9616 extension 306
Email: huguette.lepine@maisondauphine.org
Les Oeuvres de la Maison Dauphine Inc. Web site

Description
The objective of this 3-year project is to help young people attending École de la Rue adopt healthy lifestyles and develop and acquire the ability to adjust and bounce back to prevent them from becoming victims of drug addiction. The project will give them an opportunity to learn how to resist peer pressure and offers of illicit drugs and develop their ability to assess situations involving illicit drug use. To ensure maximum effectiveness, the prevention approach will focus on the individual and on his or her situation and environment. Prevention activities based on the development of skills will also be adopted for young people already facing illicit drug use problems.

Implantation de formations croisées pour améliorer la continuité des services auprès des jeunes souffrant de troubles concomitants de santé mentale et de toxicomanie

Organization: Institut Douglas

Contact Information:
Mr. Michel Perreault
Institut Douglas
6875 LaSalle Boulevard
Montréal, QC H4H 1R3
Telephone: 514-761-6131 extension 2823
Email: michel.perreault@douglas.mcgill.ca
Douglas Institute Web site

Description
The main goal of this 3-year project is to prevent the risks associated with concurrent mental health disorders and drug addiction by better integrating the continuum of services for young people aged 15 to 30 years, all the way from prevention to intervention.

Programme APTE individuel -- Projet de prévention pour les jeunes québécois de 13 à 18 ans à risque de développer un problème de consommation de drogues illicites et autres substances

Organization: Addiction Prevention Centre (CQLD)

Contact Information:
Mr. Michel Germain
Addiction Prevention Centre
105 Normand Street
Montréal, QC H2Y 2K6
Telephone: 514-389-6336
Email: michel.germain@cqld.ca
Addiction Prevention Centre Web site

Description
The overall objective of this 3-year project is to create an individual prevention program for educational institutions. The program will provide a tailored response for young people with emerging problems identified by means of the most commonly used detection grid in Quebec (DEP-ADO). The prevention program, which will consist of one to five meetings, in accordance with the substance abuse prevention program (APTE), will be based on the young people's beliefs and will respond to the needs of counsellors on the ground who work with young people between the ages of 13 and 18 years who are at risk of developing problems relating to the use of illicit drugs.

Capsules d'informations virtuelles sur le cannabis et l'ecstasy

Organization: Le Centre Option-Prévention toxicomanie-violence-délinquance-sida (TVDS)

Contact Information:
Ms. Pascale Bibeau
Le Centre Option-Prévention toxicomanie-violence-délinquance-sida (TVDS)
615 Provost Street, Office 1
Lachine, QC H8S 1M5
Telephone: 514-898-9805
Email: centretvds@videotron.ca
TVDS Web site

Description
The objective of this 26-month project is to prevent and reduce marijuana and ecstasy use by creating two virtual information capsules that will be included in a virtual e-learning tool targeting young francophones and anglophones aged 12 to 14 years.

Jeunes femmes enceintes et jeunes mères : améliorer l'intégration des services pour mieux prévenir la consommation de psychotropes et ses effets délétères sur le développement de l'enfant

Organization: Domrémy Mauricie/Centre du Québec, Centre de réadaptation en dépendance

Contact Information:
Mr. Jean-Marc Ménard
Domrémy Mauricie/Centre du Québec, Centre de réadaptation en dépendance
440 des Forges Street
Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 2H5
Telephone: 819-374-4744
Email: jean-marc_menard@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
Web site

Description
The objective of this 38-month project is to optimize the integration, effectiveness and consistency of prevention activities provided by the various organizations in the region that deal with the problem of illicit drug use among young pregnant women and young mothers. The approach will involve the development and strengthening of preventive action and the implementation of best practices targeting this client group.

Outaouais Rural Intervention Program

Organization: ENRICH - English Network of Resources in Community Health

Contact Information:
Ms. Kathy Teasdale
Executive Director
ENRICH - English Network of Resources in Community Health
53 Principale
Gatineau, QC J9H 3L4
Telephone: 819-210-3442
Email: enrich.ed@sympatico.ca

Description
The overall objective of this 3-year project is to provide more English-speaking youth in rural Outaouais with a reliable continuity of drug prevention programming that has consistent messaging and allows for short-term immediate intervention.

Overdose d'imagination

Organization: MDJ des Îles de la Madeleine

Contact Information:
Ms. Ghislaine Hamel
MDJ des Îles de la Madeleine
704 Grand Ruisseau Road
Île de la Madeleine, QC G4T 2L6
Telephone: 418-986-4080
Email: mdjiles@tlb.sympatico.ca

Description
The objective of this 38-month project is to inform, educate and raise awareness among young people and their parents about the harmful effects of illicit drug use on their health and on society in general by helping them adopt healthy attitudes and develop skills and competencies aimed at preventing the use of illicit drugs.

Approche communautaire par le cœur, l'esprit et le territoire ; intervention auprès des membres des Premières Nations en centre urbain

Organization: Café-Jeunesse de Chicoutimi

Contact Information:
Ms. Marie-Michelle Rancourt
Café-Jeunesse de Chicoutimi
30 Jacques-Cartier Ouest,
P.O. Box 1533
Chicoutimi, QC G7H 6Z5
Telephone: 418-696-2871
Email: cafejeunesse@videotron.ca
Café-Jeunesse Web site

Description
The objective of this 38-month project is to foster the integration of young Aboriginals living in urban areas who are found in one of the Café-Jeunesse de Chicoutimi intervention setting, with the goal of reducing the risk of their developing illicit drug use problems.

Prévenir, un choix de vie!

Organization: L'Antre-Hulloise Inc.

Contact Information:
Ms. Constance Allain
L'Antre Hulloise Inc.
16 Bériault Street
Gatineau, QC J8X 3A1
Telephone: 819-778-0997
Email: antre.hulloise@bellnet.ca

Description
The objective of this 3-year project is to offer a health promotion and substance abuse prevention program for young mothers and young women, targeted to their specific needs. The project, which will be carried out in vulnerable communities whose populations are impoverished and made up of different cultural groups, will be based on a social empowerment approach. With the assistance of the partner organizations, the project will create synergy among the various players who help young families and young women in the region. Activities will focus on prevention by helping the participants build their personal skills and learn certain types of social behaviour, such as how to resist negative social influences.

Implementation of comprehensive best practice prevention approaches to reduce substance abuse amongst youth

Organization: Côte-des-neiges Black Community Association

Contact Information:
Mr. Michael Gittens
Executive Director
Côte-des-neiges Black Community Association
6999 Côte-des-neiges Road, 2nd Floor, Suite 30
Montreal, QC H3S 2B8
Telephone: 514-737-8321
Email: mgittens@cdnbca.org
Côte-des-neiges Black Community Association Web site

Description
The goal of this 34-month project is to foster public policies, best practice prevention approaches, human service reforms, and social/community development that address the long standing social issues impacting on families at risk for illicit drug use in the Black community. Thus, the ultimate goal will be to help neighbourhoods in Montreal, with significant black populations, build the networks of social, cultural, educational, economic, and psychological supports that promote the healthy development of black families.

Libertox

Organization: Conseil de la Nation Atikamekw

Contact Information:
Sakay Ottawa
Le conseil de la Nation Atikamekw
290 St-Joseph Street, P.O. Box 848
La Tuque, QC G9X 3P6
Telephone: 819-523-6153 extension 101
Email: sottawa@atikamekwsipi.com

Description
The objective of this 38-month project is to strengthen drug prevention activities among young Atikamekw between the ages of 13 and 21 years, in select intervention settings, through the adoption of a global approach to illicit drug use aimed at raising the young people's awareness of the interpersonal and socio-cultural factors that influence illicit drug use and providing them with the means to address the problem.