Our Partners

The Digital Literacy Project is pleased to have made partnerships with the following organizations, schools and collectives.

Community Organizations

Carrefour Jeunesse-Emploi NDG’s Jeunes en Action
Representative: Audrey
Youth in Action is a program which is meant to help youth in the Notre-Dame de Grace area achieve their personal and professional objectives with support and guidance offered at the Carrefours jeunesse-emploi.

Carrefour Jeunesse-Emploi Sud-Ouest de Montréal’s Jeunes en Action
Representative: Eric
Youth in Action is a program which is meant to help youth in the South West of Montreal to achieve their personal and professional objectives with support and guidance offered at the Carrefours jeunesse-emploi.

CFAD
Representative: Liam
Family Continuity for Female Inmates and Ex-inmates(CFAD)'s PACE PROGRAM – The Children’s Community Action Program - brings together children ages 6 through 12 for activities, programs, meals, and workshops every Sunday.

Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association
Representative: Nicole
The Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association aims to ensure that Black people of African descent, along with other cultural communities, achieve their fullest social, economic and intellectual potential within Quebec society by providing them with needed services and representation.

Contactivity Senior's Centre
Representative:Mary Stark
The Contactivity Centre is a non-profit community centre for active seniors and retirees. They provide a variety of activities, workshops and courses, as well as interest groups and community lunches.

Head and Hands | A deux mains - Jeunesse 2000
Representative: Neil
Jeunesse 2000 is a youth drop in centre that caters to teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 and offers a secure and welcoming environment free of charge, all year long. Youth can chill with friends, meet people, play video games, watch movies, or take part in our music workshops. All of our activities are planned by youth for youth.

Head and Hands | A deux mains - Young Parents Program
Representative: Madeleine
The Young Parents Program is a place for parents or pregnant women under the age of 25 to meet and connect with other parents in a friendly, casual, and inviting atmosphere.Parents not only get to unwind, but they can share their hopes, fears, and problems with like-minded people in similar situations. A wide array of activities are offered to participate in such as art therapy, dance, and cooking. Snacks and lunch are also prepared for everyone. Workshops exploring parenting issues, health, wellbeing, and other related topics are held free of charge.

HipHopNoPop
Representative: Nantali
HipHopNoPop is a program that teaches youth about the non-violent origins of hip hop. Facilitators visit classrooms across Montreal and Canada to conduct 3-part participatory workshops that connect with youth interests and stimulate their critical thinking.

Innovation Jeunes
Representative: Jenna Smith
In a friendly community setting, the Innovation-Youth Centre encourages artistic and cultural programs to help youth experience greater harmony in their life at school, at home and in their social world. They provide a structured environment of support for youth, 12-24 years old, in downtown Montreal, offering artistic and nutrition workshops as well as academic tutoring.

Parc-Extension Historical Society
Representative: Mary McCutcheon
The Parc Extension Historical Society (SHPEHS) was formed in 2009 as a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting and preserving the memories of Parc-Extension, a multicultural community of more than 30,000 residents, annexed to the city of Montreal in 1910 and since 2002 forming the west end of the Villeray-St Michel-Parc Extension borough.

Project 10
Representative: Carly Boyce
Project 10 works to promote the personal, social, sexual and mental well being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersexed and questioning youth and adults 14-25. Through advocacy and education, using a harm reduction approach, Project 10 aims to facilitate the empowerment of youth at individual, community, and institutional levels with a particular emphasis on supporting individuals and groups who experience multiple and intersecting oppressions.

Quebec 4-H
Representative: Lorelei
Quebec 4-H is about developing self-confidence, learning skills in communications, leadership, problem solving and goal setting but most of all Quebec 4-H is about having FUN! They promote the personal development of youth aged 6 to 25 in agricultural and rural communities.

Reclaim Literacy
Representative: Eric Craven
As a leader in the literacy community, the Reading Council for Literacy Advance in Montreal (RECLAIM), a not-for-profit organization provides free, confidential, English literacy services in reading, writing, and numeracy.

Root.Ed
Representative: Vaughn
Root.ED is a community initiative offering Montreal’s urban youth ways to implement environmental and community mobilizing principles that are PRACTICAL, ACCESSIBLE and RELEVANT to the needs of their culturally-diverse community. Root.ED is dedicated to the fostering of critical thinking development of marginalized youths by promoting self actualization and community inclusion at home and via overseas internships presented through sustainable environmental and social workshops in an inter-cultural setting.

Tyndale St-Georges Department of School Age Children, Youth & Families
Representative: Kim Kidder
Serving over 2,000 people use every year, the programs at Tyndale St-Georges strongly influence the health and safety of the whole community in Little Burgundy.

Westhaven-Elmhurst Community Recreation Association's Skills Link
Representative: Roxanne
Skills Link helps youth facing barriers to employment, such as single parents, Aboriginal youth, youth with disabilities, recent immigrants, youth living in rural and remote areas, and youth who have dropped out of high school.

W.O.R.D. (Writing Our Rhymes Down)
Representatives: Lynn Worrell
W.O.R.D. is a youth-led literacy program that works with marginalized youth in Montreal. Through the use of positive hip hop music and culture, we educate, engage and empower youth; therefore, we facilitate the improvement of literacy and critical thinking skills while providing a safe environment for self-actualization.

Le Y des Femmes de Montreal
Representative: Jade Goldfarb
The goals and objectives of the Leadership initiatives at Le Y des Femmes Montreal are to promote and enhance the overall well-being of girls and women; to stimulate critical inquiry into identity, value systems, and relationships;
to cultivate leadership, social consciousness and solidarity;
and to inspire physical and creative expression.

Yellow Door Elderly Project
Representative: Laura
The goals of the Elderly Project are to promote the kind of relationship between youth and seniors that nurtures a sense of awareness and responsibility toward the aged; to provide a practical community experience for the helping professionals of tomorrow; to counteract the growing isolation and loneliness felt by many seniors; to understand through firsthand experience the personal, social, economic, and political concerns of today’s urban elderly; to enable elderly residents of the inner city to maintain a viable life in the community by working to prevent premature institutionalization; to inform and to empower the elderly, and to uphold their sense of dignity and respect as individuals and as important members of our society.

Schools

James Lyng High School
Representative: Allannah Murphy
As part of an ongoing partnership James Lyng High School, students have participated in video, blogging, and audio recording programs with the DLP.

John F. Kennedy High School
Representative: Ms. Duclos
Ms. Duclos's Ethics class is participating a Gender and Media Literacy workshop, creating videos about gender stereotypes.

Trafalgar School for Girls
Representative: Ms. Litvack and Ms. Jarrett
Grade 11 North American Literature students and grade 10 art students participated in a Gender and Media Literacy workshop.

Verdun Elementary School
Representative: Ms.Warnock
Ms.Warnock's grade 6 class took part in a media and digital literacy workshop in June 2011.

Westmount High School
Representative: Sam Servello
The Drama program worked on a creative project with the DLP in 2008.

Collectives and Media Organizations

Collective Vision
Representative: Erik Chevrier
The Media Awareness trainers at Collective Vision conduct critical media workshops and video training at Montreal schools.

CUTV Concordia University Television
Representative: Catherine Cooper
Tim Kelly from CUTV hosted a Green Screen Workshop for the youth from James Lyng High School. As they grow their mandate to become Montreal's first community television station we are pleased to be able to collaborate on several workshops.

If you are interested in becoming involved in this project as partner please get in touch with us, we look forward to hearing from you.