Activities
25th anniversary
In 2023-2024, Relais Famille celebrates its 25th anniversary!
Merci à Ruba Ghazal, députée de Mercier à l'Assemblée nationale, pour son soutien.
Greeting cards
Relais Famille has set up a "Greeting Cards" project, which has now become a tradition. The goal is to help incarcerated people get through the holiday season a little more peacefully by showing them that people are thinking of them with kindness.
Project History
2019 200 cartes ont été confectionnées par les membres de Relais Famille. Ces cartes ont pu être distribuées aux détenus de l'établissement CFF. Également, 4 cartes ont été acheminées à 4 détenus de l'établissement de Port Cartier. Nous tenons à remercier Chantal Lusignan de la Corporation Jean-Paul Morin et les aumôniers du CFF ainsi que le gestionnaire des programmes internes de Port Cartier pour avoir coordonné la distribution de ces cartes.
2020 In 2020, 1,274 cards were sent by Relais Famille members. These cards were distributed in 7 federal institutions across the province of Quebec. A special thank you to Chantal Lusignan for coordinating this project.
2021 In 2021, 2,750 cards were written and delivered to federal penitentiaries. A huge thank you to our members and to all the people and organizations who responded to this tradition. These greeting cards have a real impact on the incarcerated people who receive them.
2022 Thanks to the dedication and generosity of our members, partners, volunteers and the Relais Famille team, 2,804 greeting cards were made. We have successfully completed a great challenge: offering a card to every inmate serving a federal sentence in Quebec.
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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 recorded 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)