Services provided

• L’Entre-Toit

  • Establish and provide one or many halfway housing locations to promote social stability for adults struggling with both mental health and legal issues and facilitate the social reintegration of offenders with mental health issues put under its care.
  • Provide rehabilitation services to facilitate the social reintegration of the residents. 
    Provide guidance and support through the residents’ Court procedures and with the available services.
  • Help these people to gain a level of autonomy that could allow them to access the usual housing and lodging resources within the community.
  • Make sure that the offenders comply with the legal measures imposed to them.

  Approach

  Through our structured interventions, we help the person in their social reintegration efforts, regardless of the nature of that person’s project, whether they are looking into a preparatory internship, going back to school, or attending social, cultural or athletic activities.

  Clientele

  Our clientele is composed of only males, of 18 years or older, with mental and legal issues. The psychiatric and psychosocial aspect is handled by the client’s sector or the Montreal legal psychiatry centre. Our clientele also exhibit other associated issues, the most common one being drug abuse. Their judicial status is varied: accused, probation, suspended or deferred sentence, order from the Review Board for mental disorder.

  Contact information

  • Tel: 514 846-3202
  • Fax: 514 846-0102
  • http://lentretoit.org

• Home-care dimension

  Type of lodging

  • Group home type of lodging
  • Regular admissions: 9 beds
  • Voluntary admissions: 3 beds
  • Rooms and boarding type of lodging: 8 beds

  Admission process

  Regular admission

  Through the Comité d’accès aux ressources (CAR) for legal psychiatry.

  Voluntary admission

  Upon request of the department of Justice or Public Security, through the client’s lawyer or probation agent.

  Contact information

  • Tel: 514 846-3202
  • Fax: 514 846-0102
  • http://lentretoit.org

• Follow-up in the community division

  The Follow-up in the community division promote social reintegration of offenders with both mental health and legal issues, through clinical follow-ups, referencing, timely monitoring and in collaboration with health care and social services professionals from the criminal justice and community sectors.

  Contact information

  • Tel: 514 846-3202
  • Fax: 514 846-0102
  • http://lentretoit.org

• SAFAP program

  • The mission of the SAFAP program is mainly to support, inform and provide tools to relatives and friends of a clientele with both legal and mental health issues.
  • The main goal is the provide a support network where relatives and friends can get information on the psychiatric justice sector and share a common space to share their experience.
  • This program also provides them with a space to ask specific questions, in complete anonymity, to professionals usually dealing with patients with mental health and legal issues.
  • The SAFAP program is an ongoing service, now taking place on Tuesday nights, at the downtown Montreal YMCA.

  You must call the L’Entre-Toit home-care centre to reserve a place.

  Contact information

  • Tel: 514 846-3202
  • Fax: 514 846-0102
  • http://lentretoit.org