Women's services

Through our partnership with LI-BER-T House, we help women who have experienced addiction problems find permanent housing.

LI-BER-T House provides safe housing solutions and support for women leaving an addiction treatment centre. The Old Brewery Mission receives referrals from LI-BER-T House and helps these women find permanent housing when they are ready.

This partnership aims to prevent homelessness among young women aged 18-24 who are at high risk through Logis Rose Virginie’s housing options.

Logis Rose Virginie is an organization that supports women in precarious situations and keeps them from ending up on the street. It provides another housing option for vulnerable young women supported by the Old Brewery Mission’s prevention service.

The Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion provides an unconditional welcome and a safe place for all women to stay.

Our team of caregivers and psychosocial counsellors provides emergency accommodation services, supporting each woman on her journey to complete and lasting reaffiliation with the community.

Les Colocs du PMP is the final stepping stone for women preparing to leave emergency programs and move into their own home.

Each resident has a private or semi-private room while sharing a fully equipped modern kitchen, living room, laundry room, and bathroom with her roommates. The goal is to replicate the apartment living experience in order to support women along the path out of our emergency shelter services. However, our staff are on hand to offer psychosocial support when needed.

The fourth floor of the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion was converted into a spacious shared apartment in 2012. Ten women live there as part of the Colocs du PMP program.

Étape and Étape+ are housing programs with psychosocial support for women staying at the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion.

Most women who come through our doors for the first time enter the Étape program upon arrival and move on to Étape+ after a month. Our support services are tailored to each woman’s pace, ability and desire in order to help her achieve her personal goals, not to any specific length of stay or set schedule of meetings.

The accommodation provided includes thirteen semi-private rooms, for a total of twenty-six reserved spaces for the Étape and Étape+ programs at the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion.

PRISM-Cogeco (Projet de réaffiliation en itinérance et santé mentale) aims to help people with severe and persistent mental health problems achieve stability and sustainable reaffiliation.

Our intervention team is joined by a multidisciplinary team from the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal. PRISM helps prevent hospitalizations caused by the disorganization of people experiencing homelessness.

The program was launched in 2015 at the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion. Ten spaces are reserved for these women.

Voisines dans la communauté is a private housing support program for women.

It is designed for women leaving homelessness who feel ready to move into their own home but still need some psychosocial support.

Participants receive government subsidies, based on their monthly income, to help pay their rent. The Housing Support Services team meets with residents according to an established intervention plan. This is a sustainable solution for restoring housing stability and ensuring long-term reaffiliation for participants.

Pavillon Lise Watier opened in 2010 in a residential area of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve with 29 transitional units reserved for female clients.

The women live independently but receive psychosocial support to help them reaffiliate and maintain housing stability. Permanent housing options in the private market or in a community project are explored, depending on the resident’s individual situation.

Our on-site intervention and facilitation team organizes a variety of stimulating activities to help create bonds within the group.

The 29 rooms are fully equipped and residents have access to community kitchens and a lounge. The tenants pay 25% of their income in rent.

Les Voisines de la Lanaudière is a 10-room relais apartment for women emerging from homelessness. For many women who have used our emergency services, it is a first step towards housing stability.

The women regain a measure of autonomy and a more orderly life, but receive visits from our intervention teams who provide individualized supportive housing assistance. The women live in shared apartments with common areas, including a kitchen and living room.

This rehousing pavilion owned by the Old Brewery Mission opened in 2018.

Voisines de Lartigue is a rehousing project for women located a stone’s throw from our women’s emergency services pavilion, the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion (PMP).

All residents are assisted by an intervention worker. The proximity to the PMP makes it possible to serve a specific population and offer more intensive follow-up to women who need it.

The building opened in August 2022 with 12 studio apartments providing a secure home for women transitioning out of homelessness.