Emergency

Accueil is a housing and support program for men experiencing homelessness for the first time. From the moment they arrive at the Old Brewery Mission, they receive psychosocial support and start developing a plan to leave homelessness behind.

For someone who has never experienced homelessness before, living on the streets can be shocking and overwhelming. Most of them are unprepared for the stark reality of an emergency shelter, and entering this environment without the proper support can put them at even greater risk of falling into chronic homelessness.

The Accueil program aims to break the cycle of homelessness before it really begins.

This psychosocial support program is made possible by financial support from the CDPQ.

Les Colocs du PMP is the final stepping stone for women preparing to leave emergency programs and move into their own home.

Each resident has a private or semi-private room while sharing a fully equipped modern kitchen, living room, laundry room, and bathroom with her roommates. The goal is to replicate the apartment living experience in order to support women along the path out of our emergency shelter services. However, our staff are on hand to offer psychosocial support when needed.

The fourth floor of the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion was converted into a spacious shared apartment in 2012. Ten women live there as part of the Colocs du PMP program.

The Old Brewery Mission Mobile Clinic, powered by TELUS Health, was launched in spring 2023 to meet the needs of clients living outside our walls.

The Mobile Team offers people experiencing homelessness in Montreal cohabitation and reaffiliation support services, including tax clinics, legal clinics and referrals. It reaches people who don’t come to emergency shelters and engages with them in public spaces. Other partners, such as the Mobile Legal Clinic and McGill University’s Ingram School of Nursing, provide complementary services to support long-term reaffiliation for this population.

• Physical health care and psychosocial support, including preventive examinations, harm reduction services and referrals to other health services.
• Cohabitation and reaffiliation support services, including referrals to local support, legal services, and assistance with paperwork such as RAMQ enrollment.
• Rehousing assistance, including tax return preparation, access to identification documents and housing applications.

The clinic is on the move Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., mainly in the Ville-Marie district.

Étape and Étape+ are housing programs with psychosocial support for women staying at the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion.

Most women who come through our doors for the first time enter the Étape program upon arrival and move on to Étape+ after a month. Our support services are tailored to each woman’s pace, ability and desire in order to help her achieve her personal goals, not to any specific length of stay or to a pre-established schedule.

The accommodation provided includes thirteen semi-private rooms, for a total of twenty-six reserved spaces for the Étape and Étape+ programs at the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion.

Café Mission Keurig is known as the place to go for comfort in freezing cold and sweltering heat. Over time, it has become a linchpin of our support services for people experiencing homelessness in Montreal.

At Café Mission, our intervention teams connect with the vulnerable individuals who walk in the door and help them transition to rehousing.

Showers, laundry facilities and Internet access are available to visitors at Café Mission. Snacks and coffee are provided.

The respite has a capacity for 55 people. Café Mission is open 24 hours a day from Monday to Friday, and at night on Saturdays and Sundays.

The Pause-Santé emergency housing program is for unhoused men leaving a healthcare facility and in need of medical care.

Participants are already under the care of a multidisciplinary treatment team or are followed when they arrive. The program enables them to receive appropriate medical care in a safe, stable environment for the duration of their treatment. Psychosocial support is provided by our intervention teams with the aim of helping them find housing when their health permits.

The Pause-Santé program has 14 spaces at the Webster Pavilion.

This psychosocial support program is made possible by financial support from BMO.

PRISM-Cogeco (Projet de réaffiliation en itinérance et santé mentale) aims to help people with severe and persistent mental health problems achieve stability and sustainable reaffiliation.

Our intervention team is joined by a multidisciplinary team from the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal. PRISM helps prevent hospitalizations caused by the disorganization of people experiencing homelessness.

The program was launched in 2013 at the Webster Pavilion and in 2015 at the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion.

13 spaces are reserved for these clients at the Webster Pavilion, and 10 at the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion.

The shuttle carries people experiencing homelessness to where they want to go in the evening.

It goes to the places frequented by people experiencing homelessness and to partner organizations to facilitate people’s access to places and resources.

The shuttle is a complementary service that supports effective coordination of shelter spaces and safe transit for people experiencing homelessness.

The shuttle service is provided during the evening, 7 days a week.

Suivi intensif en itinérance (SII) is a program specifically for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness who have mental health issues.

A hallmark of SII is that the Old Brewery Mission’s intervention team meets individuals wherever they are in their journey: on the street, in an encampment, in a shelter.

15 spaces are reserved for participants in the program at the Webster Pavilion.

The Urgence et transition program is mainly for our chronic and episodic clients.

Unlike most of our housing programs, it does not address specific issues or challenges. Clients work with our intervention team to draw up an individualized reaffiliation plan with a view to finding a rehousing solution adapted to their needs.

The majority of our emergency shelter spaces are reserved for this program. There are 98 spaces for the Urgence et transition program at the Webster Pavilion and all 100 spaces at the Le Royer Pavilion (Hôtel-Dieu Hospital).

This psychosocial support program is made possible by financial support from Power Corporation.