YMCA Homelessness Assistance – Dialogue

A frontline intervention service that guides and supports people and helps them find and access relevant resources. We also offer training and respond to reports from the community to promote social cohesion in public spaces and raise public awareness about homelessness issues.

• Contact an outreach worker in Montréal:  514 971-7802 or 438-229-5285

The team adapts its intervention practices to the reality of its participants and also works with Indigenous communities. In fact, Dialogue has been an active partner in the Pôle d’intervention du Square Cabot near the Atwater metro station since 2014. 

• Contact: 438 994-9658

A service that promotes social integration and overall health through accessible and inclusive opportunities to play sports under the supervision of a community worker. This program is offered at the Downtown YMCA.

• Contact a community worker in Montréal: 514-826-5507.

Established in 2018, the aim of this service is to prepare and support people incarcerated at the Montreal Detention Facility and the Rivière-des-Prairies Detention Facility who might otherwise have no place to live upon their release, in order to avoid creating cycles of homelessness. Efforts are undertaken starting at the detention facility and continue once the person has been discharged. Our holistic approach focuses on the individual needs of each person.

To contact the team:

• Supervisor (for any information requests regarding the service): 514 239-6055
• Agent: 438 220-5290 or 438 225-9143

The purpose of this service is to build a safety net around young people, aged 16 to 25, in or at risk of being in situations of vulnerability, by offering them psychosocial support and personalized guidance to resources that meet their needs. We work in partnership with the different organizations in their neighbourhoods and act as a pivotal resource. We also offer workshops on the realities of youth homelessness in organizations frequented by young people, as for example youth centres, schools, and other youth resources.

• Contact an outreach worker in Montréal: 438 227-3943

• Montréal Centre-Ville
• City Montréal
• Ville-Marie Borough
• Fonds de soutien à la réinsertion sociale de l’Établissement de détention de Montréal
• Ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec
• Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale du Québec

The Saint-Roch YMCA’s Dialogue program is a frontline intervention service that aims to promote social cohesion in Saint-Roch’s public spaces and raise public awareness about the issues surrounding homelessness. This is done by creating opportunities for constructive and positive dialogue with and between the people who live and spend time in the neighbourhood. 

The Dialogue team works in partnership with local community and institutional resources and acts as a pivot point, referring, connecting, and guiding people to the appropriate resources (residents, businesses, people experiencing homelessness, etc.).

Our goal is to foster a constructive and positive dialogue to help us solve certain issues.

We are the intermediary of choice for numerous community players. We are here to guide and support you in your approach to improving the social cohesion of the neighbourhood.

Concerned about certain social or urban issues? Our services are free and offered to anyone in the downtown area. Please write to dialogue.sr@ymcaquebec.org or call us at 418-454-3625 or at 418-454-0449.