ABOUT
Carrefour pour Elle
Our mission
Provide shelter and assistance to women who are victims of domestic violence and women in difficulty with their children.
OUR GOALS
Provide physical safety and emotional support to housed women and children, while helping them develop their ability to assert themselves and break free from their experiences of violence, through a process of devictimization.
years of existence
women sheltered
children sheltered
January 6, 1975
Carrefour pour Elle is opening its doors thanks to a grant from the Department of National Health and Welfare of Ottawa and the Congrégation des Soeurs du Bon-Conseil, which offers free furnished premises for one year. A helpline and housing are available. Thérèse Dallaire-Laplante is the founder of Carrefour pour Elle and she has been the director for the first 16 years.
1976
Research is carried out by a sociologist to prove the necessity of the resource. Since then, the provincial government has subsidized Carrefour pour Elle, which was the first shelter for women victims of domestic violence and their children in the province of Quebec.
1986
The Carrefour pour Elle Foundation is created to financially support the shelter.
1987
Carrefour pour Elle becomes a member of the Fédération des maisons d’hébergement pour femmes.
1991
Arrival of the new director.
1993
Establishment of external services for women victims of domestic violence for post-housing and group follow-ups.
1995
Establishment of Pacifix – an external family intervention program.
2005
Establishment of the consultation and prevention of violence in romantic relationships service.
2019-21
Establishment and improvement of the Sans cri ni haine : vers des rapports égalitaires prevention program for young people in high school.
2021
Consolidation of external services for women victims of domestic violence: individual follow-up for unhoused women and local intervention within a multisectoral team (SPAL, CAVAC, CISSS and Entraide pour Hommes).
BOARD MEMBERS
President: G. Pilon
Vice-President: F. Lauzier
Treasurer: D. Asselin
Secretary: M. Leroux
Administrator: I. Richard
Administrator: L. Foisy
Administrator: H. Talbi
Executive Director: Marlène Poirier
For any communication regarding personal information, please contact the person responsible for personal information at the following email address direction@carrefourpourelle.org.
Team
Hosting and External Services
- 11 counselors at the shelter reception
- 1 youth counselor for sheltered mothers and children
- 1 child caretaker
- 2 counselors for sheltered and post-shelter women
- 1 counselor for non-sheltered women
- 1 counselor for follow-ups of women in an external group
- 1 counselor in the external Pacifix program
- 1 youth awareness counselor (Sans cri ni haine vers des rapports égalitaires project)
- 1 outreach counselor for women victims of domestic violence in our territory
Administration
- 1 executive director
- 1 executive assistant director and outreach services manager
- 1 administrative assistant
- 1 housekeeping and material resources officer