Areas of action

• Supporting community organizations to provide groups with the tools they need to carry out their mission.
• Supporting the development of local communities to improve their social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental situations.
• Supporting action on the social determinants of health to better meet basic needs such as food, housing, education, income, transportation, etc.
• Supporting the links between communities and the Centre intégré de santé et des services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais to promote complementarity of resources and to raise awareness of the needs and realities of the communities.

Who is it for?

• Community organizations
• Networking groups
• Municipalities
• Citizens
• Departments of the CISSS de l’Outaouais

Areas supported

• Pontiac
• Gatineau
• Papineau
• Vallée-de-la-Gatineau
• Collines-de-l’Outaouais

Examples of community interventions

• Assisting community organizations (ex. general meetings, by-laws, internal policies, human resources, action plans, funding and incorporation).
• Setting up committees with partners to improve living conditions and encourage citizen participation from ethno-cultural communities or families in a vulnerable situation.
• Working with municipalities and networking groups to mobilize communities around social issues, such as housing, social isolation of seniors and persons with a disability.
• Developing collective projects to promote food security, social inclusion of people experiencing homelessness and for the positive mental health of the population.
• Exploring with the departments of the CISSS de l’Outaouais, ways of responding to the needs of communities using a population-based approach.

Values

• Respect
• Solidarity
• Democracy
• Common good
• Social justice and equity
• Empowerment and autonomy

Professional roles

• Analyze
• Raise awareness
• Mobilize
• Connect
• Accompany

 Professional actions

Facilitation, consulting, assessment, training, information-referral, mediation, organization, writing.