Status of Women committee  I didn't quite understand your question. Did you want to know what is being done in this regard in Quebec or rather what we are doing at Carrefour pour Elle?

Status of Women committee  Those women have to be reached as quickly as possible when they arrive here. That's why we have focused so much on francisation courses. We generally meet with them less than six months after they arrive in Canada. Those courses give us an opportunity to meet with them. We tell t

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your questions, Mrs. Sellah. You said many things. Funding is the most important issue for a community organization like ours. We need to have more workers on the ground. I think our internal services work well. We have been providing housing for 40 years, but I th

Status of Women committee  It was my pleasure.

Status of Women committee  That's a very good question. Generally speaking, families are not recruited as such. Women first participate in a support group. Afterwards, we ask them whether they want to participate in the PACIFIX program. It's important to point out that, in most cases, the women are separa

Status of Women committee  We try to establish a relationship with schools we go to. We provide age-specific activities for students. We deliver workshops for students in secondary II, III and IV. We speak to all students, but we then invite those who need assistance to contact us by telephone. We have a y

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes, exactly.

Status of Women committee  The schools themselves decide in what classes our presentations will be made—for instance, it may be during a French course or a religious ethics course. It depends on the school. Our presentations are intended for mixed groups. We think it is important to reach both the boys and

Status of Women committee  Those are two different things. The first training, which is intended for newcomers, is called “Quand on s'aime, on s'aime égal”. We co-facilitate these sessions with community police. We provide those 2.5-hour presentations in francisation classes and talk about what constitutes

Status of Women committee  Exactly. That's exactly why we have done this, and the initiative is called “Couper court à la violence”.

Status of Women committee  That comes from the Community Action Program for Children, which is a federal initiative.

Status of Women committee  Carrefour pour Elle is mainly funded by Quebec's health and social services department, but we also receive a $60,000 federal subsidy. Be that as it may, we deliver most of our outreach services and awareness-raising programs thanks to the Carrefour pour Elle foundation. That's w

Status of Women committee  We have the PACIFIX program. Otherwise, it's really high school students that we work with. Currently, our project—“les couloirs de la violence amoureuse”—is really very interesting. The idea is to get youths involved through a multimedia labyrinth that shows them what dating vi

Status of Women committee  Yes, Pacifix.