Fondation de l’Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont

Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, which serves 27% of Montreal’s population, is home to the Clinique pédiatrique transculturelle. This clinic is aimed at both practitioners and immigrant families. Practitioners are social workers, psycho-educators, psychologists, specialised educators and doctors. They work in CLSCs in various youth programmes, in schools, in hospitals, for youth protection services or in community organisations serving a refugee or culturally diverse population.

The Clinique pédiatrique transculturelle offers consultations for referring practitioners in the form of case discussions in which young people’s mental health and/or psychosocial problems are analysed through the lens of their migratory journey, their cultural references and their beliefs. It also offers families psychotherapeutic sessions with a cultural mediator interpreter.

The Clinic will be setting up an action-research project to assess the impact of these 2 services, with a view to improving the quality and accessibility of mental health services for immigrant children and their families in Quebec, while equipping healthcare professionals with the tools they need to navigate in culturally diverse contexts.

Gift granted in Septembre 2024
$300,000/60 months
Specific Program: the action-research project