Services provided

• CRC La Relève

  The centre guides the client towards accountability through individualized monitoring. A relapse prevention program is also offered to individuals with a drug abuse issue.

  Services

  • Lodging
  • Cafeteria service
  • Individualized treatment plan
  • Job search support
  • Work options programs

  Clientele

  Men under federal and provincial jurisdiction

  Capacity

  19 spots

  Admission requirements

  • Case assessment before admission
  • Structured release plan
  • The candidate agrees to actively take part in the resource’s program

  Exclusion criteria

  Heavy psychiatric cases

  Additional information

  The Centre also welcomes intermittent sentences from provincial institutions. Service contract with the CSC and the Correctional Service Branch.

  Opening hours

  24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

  Contact information

  • Tel: 418 543-6123
  • Fax: 418 543-6123
  • Email: infolareleve@videotron.ca
  • http://acsmsaguenay.ca/

• Centre Ressac

  The Centre Ressac is a psychosocial rehabilitation program working towards the social and professional reintegration with a cognitive-behavioural approach through the development of autonomy and accountability towards the criminal and mental health issues of a mental health-justice clientele.

  Services

  • Lodging with cover
  • External follow-up
  • Individualized monitoring depending on the issue
  • Group workshops (functional autonomy, social abilities, art-therapy, leisure activities)

  Clientele

  Men with justice-mental health issues

  Capacity

  13 spots

  Opening hours

  24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  

  Contact information

  • Tel: 418 690-0256
  • Fax: 418 690-9687
  • Email: acsmsressac@videotron.ca
  • http://acsmsaguenay.ca/

• Work Options Program

  This program provide citizens who cannot pay a ticket with an alternative to imprisonment that allows them to pay their debts through unpaid work within a public or community organization.

  Services

  Provide participants with the opportunity to pay their debt to society through unpaid work.
  Provide the hosting organizations with positive staff who can accomplish different tasks.
  Support citizens in need by helping them on their journey.

  Clientele

  Adult offenders unable to pay a ticket, mostly following a traffic regulation infraction. However, since April 1999, Article 736 C.cr. was added.

  Admission requirements

  Being referred by a ticket collector.

  Opening hours

  Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to noon and 1 pm to 4:30 pm.
  

  Contact information

  • Tel: 418 549-0765 or 543-5992
  • Fax: 418 549-7568
  • Email: acsmsaguenay@videotron.ca

• Macadam

  Intervention and assertive community treatment program for individuals with mental health and judiciary issues, or at risk, to facilitate and maintain their psychosocial integration.

  Services

  • Assertive community treatment
  • Trust income management (if necessary)
  • Housing maintenance support
  • Psychosocial monitoring and helping relationship
  • Guidance
  • Helping relationship on a regular basis
  • Intervention in crisis situation

  Clientele

  Adult men and women with mental health issues and in trouble with the law, or at risk.

  Exclusion criteria

  Nonvoluntary individuals

  Opening hours

  Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to noon and 1 pm to 4:30 pm
  

  Contact information

  • Tel: 418 549-0765 or 418 545-1448
  • Fax: 418 549-7568
  • Email: acsmsaguenay@videotron.ca
  • http://acsmsaguenay.ca/