Disability Resource Directory

Communicaid for Hearing Impaired Persons: CHIP/CAPA (click link) is a registered charity serving the anglophone community. Promotes awareness of this invisible disability, provides speech/lip reading classes, demonstrates assistive devices, and has a social club with frequent activities and outings.

Aim Croit (click link.) Rehabilitation centre, orientation and work integration in all job sectors. Services offered in French, English, Spanish, Creole, Arabic, Hebrew and LSQ. Skill assessment, resume building, interview accompaniment, assistance with adapted equipment and grants. Free for both job seekers and employers, subsidized by Emploi Quebec.

Association québécoise interuniversitaire des conseillers aux étudiants en situation de handicap: AQICESH (click link) assists students with disabilities in accessing university facilities, services and academic accommodations. Promotes inclusive volunteering and mutual aid in Montreal’s East End. Managed by a board of directors composed mainly of people who use its services or live in the community it serves.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (click link) is wheelchair accessible, and admission is free for people with mobility issues and their caregivers at all times.

NDG Food Depot (click link) is fully wheelchair accessible, including the washroom.

Action Réfugiés Montréal (click link) provides support for people detained for immigration reasons and their families, as well as twinning opportunities between settled immigrants and new refugees. 

The Human Rights Commission of Quebec will hear your complaint if you have been discriminated against or harassed in an area covered by the Charter of Rights (click link)

Association Sportive et Communitaire du Centre Sud: ASCCS and Père-Ambroise Public Library (click link) in Ville Marie, close to the east side of Parc LaFontaine, are in the same building. The pool has a disability ramp, but you have to go into the family room for the accessible change room---why do pools across Canada do that? There is minimal parking outside, with two disability spots. The one at the front doors has a level entrance, the one at the side door faces steps (why?). The elevator will take you up to the library

National Educational Association of Disabled Students: NEADS (click link) is a consumer-controlled, cross-disability charitable organization that supports full access to education and employment for post-secondary students and graduates with disabilities across Canada. 

The Quebec Association for Equity and Inclusion in Post-Secondary Education: AQIEPS (click link) advocates for equal education opportunities for post secondary students with disabilities. 

Kéroul (click link) provides information about physically accessible cultural and tourism sites.

Horizon Travail (click link) is a non profit that provides employment counselling and assistance for people with vision impairments and mental health issues.

L’ETAPE (click link) offers employment counselling and integration services. Offered in French and in English. For deaf and hard-of-hearing persons, we communicate in sign language (LSQ/ASL) and the oral technique.

Atwater Market (click link) and adjoining mall: 138 Atwater Avenue.  All spaces should be fully accessible, but until they are, we'd like to point you towards places that are presently easy to navigate. Atwater Market boasts many flower and produce stalls, including organic. There is paid street parking alongside, but most wonderful is the huge free parking lot across the road, by Super C, SAAQ and Pharmaprix. Ignore the inaccessible ticket machine; staff no longer check cars for tickets. Enter via Duvernay, off Levis or Atwater Streets. There is a well marked crosswalk to the Market, and traffic seems to respect it. However, there is not as yet an audible signal.

The Market is about 10 minutes walk or roll from the fully accessible Lionel Groulx Metro. Buses #1 and #107 stop about 10 minutes away.

These stores have accessible entries. You may be annoyed with Super C's flexible bars at the entrance, but they push aside easily. I have had no trouble entering through the Exit doors. Atwater's stalls are accessible around each produce stand and some of the food stands, though you will have difficulty navigating with an assistive device through some of the narrower floral aisles. I found staff universally eager to bring you floral samples and otherwise assist. 

Not sure whether to place BanQ, the Quebec National Library (click link), under Resources or Barriers. While the STM map shows the nearby Berri Metro as accessible, it is in fact only accessible from street level. If you have to transfer, you will face stairs. The library itself has a "hidden" parking lot in the back lane, with disability spaces by the accessible elevator. There are accessible washrooms inside the entrance and throughout, and elevators to each floor. However, if you attend an event in the auditorium and cannot climb stairs, you will be forced to sit in the back row, at the top of a steep flight. You will barely be able to see the stage. This is contrary to the library's posted accessibility statement. It is unlike other venues throughout Canada, where people with disabilities are admitted to the front row via an accessibility door. 

The Americans with Disabilities Act, the ADA, has been in place for three decades. It will unfortunately take time for the Canadians with Disabilities Act to make accessibility standards clear, and enforce them. Click this link for the ADA's specific guidelines for accessibility, with a checklist.

General information on government and NPO services for mental health.
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MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

Anxiety

Bipolar Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

Depression

Eating Disorders

Hoarding

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Psychosis

Schizophrenia

Self-Injury

Suicide

Day Centres for people experiencing mental health issues (click link). Meals, socializing, peer and counsellor support, referrals, work skills training.                             

Support for Additional Challenges:

Addiction, Substance Abuse, Dual Diagnosis

Learning/Intellectual Disability

Sexuality and Sexual Orientation

Victims of Crime (including sexual assault)

Violence/Anger/Abuse