16: Montérégie

Project Name

CSSS Vaudreuil-Soulanges: English Second Language Training
CSSS du Suroît: Language Training Program
CSSS Richelieu-Yamaska: English Second Language Training
CSSS de la Pommeraie: English Second Language Training
CSSS Pierre Boucher: English Second Language Training Course
CSSS Haut St-Laurent: Accessibility and Effectiveness of Services Delivered in English
CSSS Haut-Richelieu-Rouville: Language Training Program
CSSS Haute-Yamaska: CSSSHY – English Second Language
CSSS Champlain: Language Training Customized for Access of English-speaking Communities to CSSS Champlain Services
CSSS Jardins Roussillon: English Second Language Course
CRDI Montérégie-Est: Language Training Program (English)
Hôpital Charles Lemoyne: Client Services: Intake, Referral, Response to Needs, User Instructions

Agency
Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de la Montérégie

CSSS and Partners
CSSS Vaudreuil-Soulanges, CSSS du Suroît, CSSS Richelieu-Yamaska, CSSS de La Pommeraie, CSSS Pierre-Boucher, CSSS du Haut-Saint-Laurent, CSSS Haut-Richelieu-Rouville, CSSS de la Haute-Yamaska, CSSS Champlain, CSSS Jardins-Roussillon, Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille, CRDI Montérégie-Est, Hôpital Charles-Lemoyne, Centre jeunesse de la Montérégie, Les Services de Réadaptation du Sud-Ouest et du Renfort

Target Services
Info-santé, front-line services, mental health program

Target Personnel
Health care services: nurses, client care attendants, visiting homemakers and social services assistants, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists
Social services: human relations officer, social workers and social service technicians, educators and psychoeducators, psychologists, etc.
Intake service: secretaries, receptionists, clerks, selected technicians

Training Organization
Champlain College St. Lambert

Description of Planned Activities
English second language courses having three parts (centralized coordination):
- relevance of training for each target user group (3 types of programs tailored to activity sectors)
- flexible approach for adjusting the program to the situation of each institution within the network (conditions: place, schedule)
- management of changing English language skills of workers participating in the program (pre and post-evaluation, grades, report)
Possibility of six placement levels (beginner to intermediate and advanced)
Customized teaching activities and methods, e.g. workplace simulations, quizzes, exercises, role playing, scenarios, laboratories, dictation, essay writing, discussion groups, etc.

Budget Allocation
$200,000