Parenting Resources
References and support from local and national organizations
Here we have listed organizations that can help parents of Quebec students. You can filter these organizations using the two drop-down menus, either by category or by region. Choose the “National” region to find organizations working throughout Quebec. Please feel free to suggest organizations in your area or contact us if you need help.
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Free online resource to help your child learn to read with enchantment.
Resources and tools to support your child in their orientation process.
Action Réussite helps promote academic perseverance, educational success and the achievement of the full potential of young people in Abitibi-Témiscamingue through mobilization, working with partners who work with parents, employers and elected officials to make the culture of education a major regional priority.
The Aidersonenfant.com portal is the largest free French-language platform designed to equip and support parents in the social, emotional, and academic development of their child.
AidezMoiSVP.ca supports teens by helping them stop the spread of sexual photos and videos while supporting them every step of the way, in complete confidentiality.
The Quebec Alliance of Regional Groups for the Integration of People with Disabilities (AQRIPH) is a national organization for the collective defense of the rights of people with disabilities and their loved ones. The AQRIPH is made up of 17 regional groups which bring together more than 400 local organizations of people with disabilities and their relatives throughout Quebec.
Practical and free resources for parents to help them better support their children throughout their school career, from primary to secondary.
AQETA Estrie (Quebec Association for Learning Disabilities – Estrie section) uses its expertise in dyslexia, dysorthography and dyscalculia to ensure equal opportunities for people living with such learning disabilities, to enable them to develop their potential and actively contribute to society.
The AQPEHV brings together parents of children with visual impairments, promoting exchanges and the sharing of experiences, and offers these parents services that complement those offered by the public sector, based on the needs expressed.
To support, assist and bring together parents of children with special needs so that they can fully flourish in their parental role. APED stands out above all for its approach, its openness and its welcome, but also for the diversity of services it offers to families whose children have particular challenges to overcome.
In addition to supporting its members in their professional development, representing them, promoting their interests and fostering their community life, the ADOQ’s mandate is to inform, guide and offer specialized, diversified and quality training in orthopedagogy.
The Quebec Association for Children with Hearing Problems (AQEPA) is a network of regional associations of families, young adults living with deafness and allies, supported by a provincial association founded over 50 years ago.
Through a variety of services and guided by values of collaboration, solidarity and equity, the AQGS works to continuously improve the quality of school daycare services, an important link in the continuum of educational services offered to students.
The Quebec Tourette Syndrome Association is a non-profit organization that works with people with Tourette syndrome, their families, and stakeholders in the health, education, social, and community sectors. The AQST’s mission is to support, inform and empower people with Tourette Syndrome. Support, inform and train the people who live and work with them and raise awareness among the population about this issue.
Thematic atlases are information tools that allow you to discover different characteristics related to the world of education. Topics of interest are interpreted according to different cartographic representations.
A popular literacy organization for those aged 16 and over that helps people with low literacy achieve their personal goals.
Each learner can learn at their own pace and in small groups.
The Coalition of Parents of Children with Special Needs of Quebec (CPEBPQ) is the voice of experts with experience in the educational and social realities of children with special needs in Quebec and hundreds of individual and association members, 81% of whom identify as parents of children with special needs.
A well-established voice of advocacy supported by numerous partners from the worlds of health, education, research, the environment, nutrition and physical activity. The Vital Collective is an initiative of the Quebec Public Health Association.
Promote consultation within the Lanaudière community through mobilization, awareness-raising, support, dissemination and transfer of knowledge, and evaluation to increase the educational success of all.
The Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse is an independent body responsible for promoting and enforcing the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, protecting the interests of children and ensuring equality in employment in public bodies.
Accomplice – School Perseverance Gaspésie-les îles supports local and regional initiatives that improve school perseverance and educational success among young people in the region. By supporting local groups of partners from different sectors working with young people, it advocates a global approach, not just an academic one.
The mission of CRÉPAS is to prevent young people from the SLSJ from dropping out of school. Its work is part of a partnership with the community aimed at maintaining a common vision of the problem and supporting structuring and effective interventions.
COSMOSS is a community of partners who provide services to young people, both in the health and education networks and in the municipal, early childhood, employment and community sectors, which promotes the development of the full potential of young people from a perspective of equal opportunities.
A media outlet specializing in education, École branchée helps foster educational reflection and develop understanding of educational issues through current topics and concrete examples from practice and research.
L’École des Grands is an after-school mentoring program that pairs elementary school students from disadvantaged backgrounds with middle school students. The emphasis is on homework help and scientific awareness. The program supports the educational success of elementary, middle school, and university students
Balancing family life and returning to work or training can be complicated. The Parent School provides parents with the tools they need to develop knowledge, self-confidence and support their children’s academics. It is an excellent starting point for further studies or integration into the job market.
Espace parents was designed to help Quebec parents better understand what their young people are experiencing in their academic and professional orientation by giving them tools to support them in their personal and identity development, throughout their studies.
This initiative supports actions to combat poverty and social exclusion by creating synergy across Nunavik and strengthening actions around education for all learners so that they persevere in achieving their goals.
The Quebec Autism Federation (FQA) is a provincial group of organizations and individuals who share the interests of autistic people, their families and those close to them.
The FQOCF promotes the enrichment of parental experiences and skills as well as the full development of children by offering Quebec parents human and personalized support in the OCFs, for all stages of their family life.
The Bruny Surin Foundation focuses on developing inclusive and supportive spaces in schools to create environments that will enable all young people to discover and benefit from the advantages of a healthy and active lifestyle.
The Jeunes en Tête Foundation prevents psychological distress among young people aged 11 to 18 through its awareness programs. Our foundation works for young people in Quebec and those around them.
The Laurent Duvernay-Tardif Foundation contributes to the development of skills essential to the educational success of young people by offering them programs that combine resources and artistic and sporting activities throughout the year.
The Literacy Foundation supports children and adults in developing and maintaining their ability to read and learn, to promote their well-being and full participation in society and to make Quebec a highly literate society.
The Literacy Foundation supports children and adults in developing and maintaining their ability to read and learn, to promote their well-being and full participation in society and to make Quebec a highly literate society.
Fusion Jeunesse designs and distributes innovative educational programs for primary and secondary school students. A true laboratory for self-expression and teamwork, Fusion Jeunesse programs allow everyone to reveal themselves.
The Neurons Group is a regional consultation body on academic perseverance and educational success (IRC. We work to develop meaningful and mobilizing partnerships that promote the academic success of our students in Northern Quebec.
This Interactive Guide to Copyright in Schools from the Centre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles (CSSMI) is intended to be an essential, easy-to-use and interactive tool, notably through numerous links responding to the various questions raised by staff in establishments and services.
The Capitale-Nationale Regional Consultation Authority (IRC-CN) aims to promote academic perseverance and educational success in the Capitale-Nationale region. This body mobilizes, brings together and engages community stakeholders in order to carry out concerted, targeted and concrete actions with the potential for significant impact on academic perseverance and educational success in the communities.
A group of regional, intersectoral and inter-order partners who wish to work together to promote academic perseverance and educational success for young people and adults in their region.
The Institute for Training and Community Assistance for Children and Families is an organization dedicated to assisting families in difficulty. IFACEF’s multidisciplinary team can help you see clearly and cope with the most difficult moments.
The Learning Disabilities Institute provides information on learning challenges, develops support communities and equips parents and stakeholders in the school and health care systems to enable them to better support learners.
The Learning Disabilities Institute provides information on learning challenges, develops support communities and equips parents and stakeholders in the school and health care systems to enable them to better support learners.
The Pacific Institute develops and implements expertise in conflict resolution and teaching social skills. Equipping children and adolescents towards harmonious relationships, its proven programs and services act on the entire climate of a given environment.
Interligne is a front-line organization which, through its listening, intervention and awareness-raising services, contributes to the well-being of people affected by sexual diversity and gender plurality.
Je raccroche is an organization for reconnecting with school and socio-professional life, aimed at young people aged between 16 and 30. While having support and monitoring adapted to their needs. Young people can register at any time and the duration of their course depends on the time it will take them to achieve their goals.
Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only 24/7 online mental health service, offering free, multilingual, and confidential support to help all young people release their emotions.
The Open School offers a range of resources to the entire Quebec school network; to students and their parents as well as to school staff.
The Open School offers a range of resources to the entire Quebec school network; to students and their parents as well as to school staff.
La Cantine pour tous is a collective that brings together social and solidarity economy organizations that share a desire to work together to help resolve food insecurity and other food issues in their regions.
La Lumiere is an organization located in Bas-Saint-Laurent that helps the loved ones of people living with mental health disorders. The organization advocates a human approach and also offers listening and support to young people.
La Sphère’s mission is to offer a comprehensive, individual-centered support service to people in the Rimouski-Neigette and La Mitis RCMs, to help them develop professionally, academically, and personally.
At Breakfast Club, we believe every student should have access to a nutritious breakfast, an essential resource to give children the energy they need to learn and enable them to dream bigger.
Organization helping young people aged 5 to 17 in the Rimouski-Neigette MRC, particularly those living in precarious and vulnerable situations, to develop their self-esteem and promote their social integration, mainly through a friendly relationship with a significant adult volunteer.
Annual awareness and mobilization meeting highlighting the importance of engaging with young people and encouraging them in their efforts towards success. This week takes place during the 3rd week of February, a decisive moment in the school year when young people may experience a drop in energy and a lack of motivation. The JPS therefore provide a platform for Quebec society to encourage them, value them and listen to their motivations and aspirations.
Maison CALM has developed a definite expertise in matters of separation and conflictual divorce where the primary interest is the well-being and safety of the child and which is based on principles, values and the fundamental belief that the child has the right to have access to both parents despite conflicts.
Born and Grow offers a reliable source of information validated by health professionals. Our site supports parents in their child’s development.
Career counselors are professionals in counseling, guidance, and career development who practice in the fields of mental health and human relations. They support people of all ages, at all stages of their lives.
ParentEstrie.com offers a directory of resources useful to all parents, regardless of where they live, but Estrie resources are highlighted, to equip parents with information regarding their child’s educational success.
Raise awareness, mobilize and engage young people, their families and all stakeholders in the community around academic perseverance and educational success. The PREL unites community stakeholders around academic perseverance and educational success by promoting the importance of developing socio-emotional skills as a lever for young people’s motivation and engagement in their academic careers.
A universal school food program in Quebec so that all school-aged children have equal opportunities to succeed and develop regardless of their socio-economic background.
PAUSE promotes balanced use of the internet and screens to prevent the risks associated with hyperconnectivity. PAUSE is a practical and caring ally to make technology work for us (and not the other way around!) and to remind us of the importance of disconnecting regularly.
PETALES Québec offers various listening, support and accompaniment services, as well as awareness and training activities on attachment issues, attachment disorders and complex trauma.
Place à l’école supports parents in their collaborative approach with the school team as part of their child’s integration and school inclusion process.
The name PRÉCA is an acronym for Partners for Educational Success in Chaudière-Appalaches. As a regional consultation body (IRC), PRÉCA acts as a true crossroads through which partners from different backgrounds engage and mobilize to promote academic perseverance and educational success for young people in the region.
The overall development of Chaudière-Appalaches students is a social and economic priority. Because several factors influence this overall development, several strategies and several actors are necessary to intervene effectively. By acting in a complementary manner, PRÉCA and its partners maximize their impact and continually optimize their actions.
Première Ressource identifies and analyzes the needs raised by parents and provides them with avenues for reflection, taking into account their particular situation and that of their children. The interventions are based on regaining one’s power as a parent, while respecting their values.
Pro-Jeune-Est has a dual mission, educational and social. It translates into the support provided to young people with learning difficulties and school and social adjustment, as well as to their families, in a preventive, continuous and concerted approach in order to improve their overall development, towards well-being.
The National Student Ombudsman is responsible for the complaints and reporting mechanism in the Quebec school system. It protects the rights of students and their parents by allowing them to express their dissatisfaction with the educational services they receive from their public or private school, their school service center or their school board.
The Quebec Committee for Youth with Behavioral Difficulties (CQJDC) is an organization whose mission is to promote the well-being of young people aged 0 to 25 who experience behavioral, social, emotional and academic difficulties, and to improve the quality of the services offered to them.
R3USSIR contributes to educational success and the training-employment match through the mobilization and commitment of the employment sector, school staff, elected officials and municipal staff, government bodies, community organizations as well as health and social services and the early childhood sector.
The Regard 360 project aims to equip professionals, analysts and decision-makers to enable them to develop a better understanding of the assets and challenges present in their territory using an ecosystem approach.
The Regroupement des groupes populaires en alphabétisation du Québec (RGPAQ) works to promote and develop popular literacy groups and their approach, as well as to collectively defend the rights of adults with low or no literacy skills. It represents 78 groups spread across Quebec.
The Laval Group for Educational Success (RLPRE) aims to contribute to the academic perseverance and educational success of young people and adults through intersectoral mobilization acting in concert and continuous actions that are complementary, coordinated and coherent among stakeholders from all environments and sectors concerned with academic and educational perseverance.
The Quebec Network of Alternative Public Schools brings together all stakeholders in Quebec’s alternative schools. Its mandate is to promote the sharing of practices and knowledge between its members, with a view to innovation.
Composed of networks, groups and associations of organizations from various sectors, concerned with the well-being of families, the mission of the Network is to promote and contribute to the implementation of innovations, actions, conditions, measures and policies, collective or organizational, in favor of the development, well-being and quality of life of all members of the family.
The RQRE’s expertise shines through the deployment of mobilizing actions which contribute to increasing the graduation and qualification of young people and which demonstrate the importance of persevering until obtaining a recognized diploma or qualification.
The Montreal Success Network’s mission is to mobilize all partners on the Island of Montreal to be a place of convergence for actions that have a positive influence on young people, parents and stakeholders, with the aim of increasing perseverance, success and school retention.
RAP Côte-Nord promotes academic perseverance and educational success among young people by bringing together stakeholders and partners from different backgrounds who are working together to develop concerted initiatives to contribute together to increasing the region’s graduation rate.
Government source for information on the school governance model and school service centers, on school boards and how to participate in them, as well as on boards of directors and how to participate in them.
The Quebec Society for Intellectual Disabilities works to defend the rights and interests of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. It raises awareness among the public and decision-makers, acts as a spokesperson with political bodies and supports initiatives promoting autonomy and social inclusion.
Regional body for consultation on school perseverance and educational success (IRC) whose mission is to mobilize the driving forces of the community and amplify collective efforts encouraging school perseverance and educational success from early childhood to adult life in Outaouais.
The mandate of this roundtable is to provide a space for consultation for the various partners involved in school environments across the province in order to create environments that are conducive to living together and learning, and therefore free from violence.
A center of excellence, innovative and collaborative, the IRCM brings together and engages stakeholders in the field, supports structuring actions and promotes good practices in academic perseverance and educational success in order to positively influence the educational path of young people aged 0-24 in Montérégie.
The Mauricie Regional Education Table (TREM) is a group of Mauritian stakeholders involved in education, which aims to implement actions to optimize the impact of the various target stakeholders on the education of young people, from early childhood to adulthood, both in educational success and in training.
The Education Dashboard presents key indicators and statistics for preschool, primary and secondary education.
TDAH Estrie offers listening and individual support services for the implementation of adaptive strategies for people affected by attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADHD).
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Vivre Grand’s mission is to promote the quality of life, social inclusion and well-being of people living with intellectual disabilities, autistic people and their loved ones.