Association of Montreal Inc. Montreal of Association 2021 By Jamaica Jamaica By We are pleased to present a Directory of Services and helpful links available in DIRECTORY OF SERVICES the Montreal area as well as in Canada and the Caribbean. Please note that the information for each Organization was taken directly from their websites. Also, this document and will be updated on an ongoing basis. Jamaica Association of Montreal Inc. 4065 rue Jean-Talon O., Montreal, QC., H4P 1W6 Telephone: 514-737-8229 Email: [email protected] Category Organization Website List of Services Contact Info Notes Cette liste a été créée en réponse à une vague de This list was created in response soutien au mouvement Black to a wave of support to the Lives Matters suite au Black Lives Matters movement meurtre de George Floyd. following the murder of George Anti- Pour éviter de perpétuer Floyd. To avoid perpetuating Black/RacismResour https://docs.google.com/d «l'activisme performatif», “performative activism”, we ces MTL/QC ocument/d/1d2uk0kINCne See website for more nous espérons offrir un outil Advocacy hope to offer a tool for those Ressources pour VcSThtTybYJvpsrPJKlfUqw5 information à ceux qui souhaitent agir who wish to take action in one contrer le racisme dwpC7-H0/edit d'une manière ou d'une way or another. Systemic racism Anti-Noir autre. Le racisme systémique does exist in Montreal and in existe à Montréal et au Quebec, therefore this list is an Québec, donc cette liste est attempt at sharing Montreal une tentative de partager and Quebec centric resources. des ressources propres à Montréal et au Québec. 1. Black Led Organizations in 3600 Jeanne-Mance, Quebec We Can Support #470 https://coco- Right Now Montreal, QC, H2X 2K5 net.org/black-led- Advocacy COCo Net 2. Organizations Fighting Mon to Thurs organizations-in-quebec- Police Violence 10 AM to 4:00 PM we-can-support-right-now/ 3. Organizations Building Up Phone: 514-849-5599 Black Communities Email: [email protected] • Canada’s longest running Black• 432 – 3680 Jeanne- theatre company committed to Mance Black Theatre Workshop is Arts & Black Theatre reflecting Black culture & Montréal, QC, H2X 2K5 • blacktheatreworkshop.ca an award-winning English- Entertainment Workshop community by developing • Phone : 514-932-1104 speaking theatre company &providing visibility for Black • Email: based in Montreal, Quebec Canadian artists info@blacktheatreworksho p.ca Last Updated: 29 June 2021 Page 2 of 44 Category Organization Website List of Services Contact Info Notes • • QBBE serves multicultural and intercultural families, elementary and high school students in the French, English (514) 481-9400 and private sectors [email protected] QBBE provides customized engaging, Quality instruction 5165 Rue Sherbrooke Quebec Board of Ouest, Suite 317 Black that is in alignment with the Black Educators Montréal, QC H4A 1T6 Education national curriculum (QBBE) QBBE.ca 1. Elementary Programs Hours: 2. Secondary Programs Monday to Friday 3. Family Programs 9 am – 4 pm 4. High School Preparation Program 5. Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Personal Development Program Programs: 1. Entrepreneurship 2. Education 1950 St. Antoine W. Desta supports Black youth 3. Employability – Tech Buro Montreal, QC., H3J 1A5 aged 18 to 35 in reaching DESTA – their educational, Black Re-Entry & Support Services: Education for Black Youth https://destabyn.org/ employability and Available to individuals Telephone: 514-664- Black Youth Network entrepreneurial goals currently incarcerated and 5042 through a holistic and preparing for release, Email: individualized approach transitional housing, or who [email protected] have a history of criminal justice involvement Last Updated: 29 June 2021 Page 3 of 44 Category Organization Website List of Services Contact Info Notes The QBMA has constituted a charitable trust, known as the QBMA Research and Education Fund. Its main objectives are to: - Fund projects to promote and contribute to public education and understanding of the medical sciences; - Fund projects to enhance the quality of public, medical or social services provided to 2021 Avenue Atwater disadvantaged persons suite 180 Quebec Black Black Health Montreal, QC, Canada Medical Association QBMA.ca - Fund grants for Black students from deprived economic or Tel : 514-937-8822 cultural backgrounds to pursue studies in the medical sciences; and - Provide grants to Black students who have demonstrated leadership, past or potential academic achievements, community or extra-curricular involvement, allowing them to pursue studies in the medical sciences Last Updated: 29 June 2021 Page 4 of 44 Category Organization Website List of Services Contact Info Notes The list includes information such as: the name of the professional, their professional title, their services, whether they are currently taking new clients, If you contact a their email, their phone professional and they are number, their ethnicity, their no longer working in language(s), whether they Montreal, or if you have identify as LGBTQ, whether See website for a list of mental any questions/concerns, they reQuire a referral, their Black Mental BIPOC Mental https://bipocmentalhealth. health professionals of colour in please contact: address, the accessibility of Health Health tumblr.com/list Montreal their space, their cost and thelavendercollective.ca@ whether insurance is accepted gmail.com (in this order). A French version will be available soon. This is a project being completed by The Lavender Collective’s directors: Jodie- Ann Muckler T.S.; S.W. and Ayan Mahdi; and began at Project10 in Montreal Directory of Black Services See website for a list of Black Black Services BlackMontreal.com http://blackmontreal.com/ Community Associations and Blackmontreal.com Black Services community_associations__ Organizations orga.htm Violet Reveira Tel : 514-572-3764 Email : Black Black Therapists Therapists [email protected] Earlyn Sharpe 514-566-5477 or 855-669-7005 Last Updated: 29 June 2021 Page 5 of 44 Category Organization Website List of Services Contact Info Notes BCRC provides and 6767 Chemin Cote-des- implements professional Black Youth Black Community 1. Information and Referrals Neiges, Suite 497 innovative support services Support Resources Centre 2. Support to Schools Montreal, QC., H3S 2T6 which meets the needs of https://bcrcmontreal.com/ Services 3. Documentation Centre English speaking youth, which (BCRC) Phone: 514-342-2247 4. Workshops include: socio-cultural, Email: educational and economic [email protected] type support Learn how to avoid common errors that can cause delays in processing your application to 1. Immigration come to Canada (video) 2. Citizenship 3. Permanent Residence https://www.canada.ca/en/im migration-refugees- https://www.canada.ca/en 4. Passport Services citizenship/news/video/save- /services/immigration- 5. How to send a complete time-send-complete- citizenship.html immigration application application.html Steps to become a Canadian Canadian Immigration & Canadian citizen: https://www.canada.ca/en Citizenship Sponsor your: (1) Apply for citizenship Government /immigration-refugees- Services 1. Spouse Who can apply, how to apply, citizenship/services/applic 2. Common-law partner forms, fees and processing ation/application-forms- times guides/guide-5289- 3. Conjugal partner 4. Dependent child (2) Citizenship test and sponsor-your-spouse- interview common-law-partner- Who has to take the test and conjugal-partner- go to the interview, what to dependent-child- study, what happens on test complete-guide.html day (3) Oath of citizenship and ceremony Who must attend, what happens at the ceremony Last Updated: 29 June 2021 Page 6 of 44 Category Organization Website List of Services Contact Info Notes 1. Advise you on the right Canadian immigration program for your specific circumstances, Live, Study, Work or do Business in Canada Andrea Pierce, with strategies to increase your RCIC, M.B.A, PMP likelihood of success. Regulated Canadian 2. Act as your personal legal Immigration Consultant representative with your country's (RCIC) Visa Office, and Immigration Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Email : 3. 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