Activities
25th anniversary
In 2023-2024, Relais Famille celebrates its 25th anniversary!
Thanks to Ruba Ghazal, Member of Parliament for Mercier in the National Assembly for her support.
Greeting cards
Relais Famille has launched a "Greeting Cards" project, which has now become a tradition. The goal is to help incarcerated individuals get through the holiday season a little more peacefully by showing them that people are thinking of them with kindness.
Project History
2019
Two hundred cards were made by members of Relais Famille. These cards were distributed to inmates at the CFF Institution. Four cards were also sent to four inmates at the Port Cartier Institution. We would like to thank Chantal Lusignan of the Jean-Paul Morin Corporation, the chaplains at the CFF, and the internal programs manager at Port Cartier for coordinating the distribution of these cards.
2022
Thanks to the dedication and generosity of our members, partners, volunteers, and the Relais Famille team, 2,804 greeting cards were produced. We successfully met a significant challenge: providing a card to every inmate serving a federal sentence in Quebec.
2020
In 2020, 1,274 cards were sent by members of Relais Famille. These cards were distributed to seven federal institutions across the province of Quebec. A special thank you to Chantal Lusignan for coordinating this project.
2023
We were able to distribute 3,003 cards to inmates in the nine federal institutions in Quebec. 930 cards were sent to the Leclerc, Rivière-des-Prairies, and Bordeaux detention centres.
2021
In 2021, 2,750 cards were written and delivered to federal penitentiaries. A huge thank you to our members and to all the individuals and organizations who participated in this tradition. These greeting cards have a real impact on the incarcerated individuals who receive them.
2024
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My dad, a story
A parenting skills program that promotes the strengthening of family ties, this project was made possible thanks to the partnership concluded in March 2019 between Relais Famille, which finances the project, and the John Howard Society of Quebec, which coordinates it.
This activity offers incarcerated men the opportunity to read a story to their child or any other child with whom they have a real and serious bond. This is an activity where a team of volunteers meets with the inmates and offers them to choose a book from a selection, then reads it and records it in mp3 format. The team of volunteers is responsible for preparing and sending a gift package that contains an mp3 player with the voice of the participant reading the story, accompanied by the book that was read. This activity helps maintain a bond between the participant and the child in a context of learning and initiation to reading.
Contact us
1340 Boulevard Saint-Joseph East
Montreal, QC
H2J 1M3
514-419-6632
1-855-419-6632 (Toll Free)