Our second language conversation groups were created to be an inclusive space for residents to practice necessary language skills and make social connections with fellow residents. The groups now run 5 days a week with thanks to 5 fabulous volunteer animators who help connecting residents from various background together through a common goal: developing their language abilities.

The Council started working on this issue during COVID. We applied for different funding to create projects in the different HLMs and other social housing in the past three years. We had monthly meetings that bring all actors that work in these projects to better coordinate our interventions and have a space to exchange.

Newsletter:
This newsletter is dedicated to seniors living in HLM's in the NDG neighbourhood. This is one of the ways to keep residents in the building informed of services and connected to the community. 

Nov 2021
Feb 2021
Dec 2020

1. La réalisation d’activités de résilience communautaire par le développement de trajectoires de services, d’outils et d’ateliers et le partage de bons coups en résilience communautaire ;
2. L’élaboration d’une cartographie des communautés et des ressources existantes en regard des clientèles et milieux desservis ;
3. Un repérage de personnes ou de communautés ayant besoin de soutien relié aux déterminants de la santé. Ce repérage permettra d’informer ceux-ci sur des ressources existantes dans la communauté et de les orienter, au besoin, vers des ressources d’aide en utilisant l’outil de la Prescription sociale.

It has successfully created a space where participants feel welcome and supported. It has enabled individuals to form new friendships, gain advice, and access resources to help with their challenges. The Coffee Rencontre program offers a variety of activities, including:

•  Cooking Sessions
• Coffee and Check-In
• Fun Activities
• Basic Technology
• Consultations Access to Neighborhood Services

The NDG Community Council is Launching its second Mural in NDG. 
This Mural is funded by the City of Montreal and our Borough CDN NDG as part of projects that mainly focused on community mobilization, and to create murals that take into account the needs and objectives of local communities. The mural was designed by a local artist and carried out with the involvement of local citizens, businesses, organizations or institutions. This mural is created to pay tribute to the rich history of social housing, gardening and our most recent market at Benny Farm. It is a neighborhood mural with a big heart and great impact. Launch: Making the Farm Bloom

The NDG Community Council is working to improve residents' participation by offering fun accessible ways to have your voice heard. We've started the Get Involved series to expand areas of resident mobilization through Surveys, Lunch Clubs/Communi-Tea and Public Assemblies.

The NDG Community Council benefits tremendously from the contributions of all our committed volunteers to help us achieve our goals. We'd be thrilled if you would like to share some of your time and your skills with us.

Volunteers help us with tasks such as organizing events, translation, and community outreach, and there are always new and interesting ways of getting involved too. If you think you would like to contribute some of your time to the community, fill out the application form below, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. And, if we haven't got an opening for you right away, we can also help refer you to a range of volunteer opportunities with other community organizations in NDG that may match your skills and interests.

In 2019, the Council continued the Community Connectors initiative and offered training and outreach experiences to two groups of residents of NDG. The objective was to create strong partners that can help us connect with the community and to provide capacity building to residents that are interested in being involved in their community. Residents loved their experience and asked for a longer duration of the program with more in-depth training.

Online meetings (ZOOM) for residents, parents, cultural groups, community workers, DIY Tax clinic workshops, Art Hive.

Breaking Social Isolation BSI project
The project is divided into two phases:
1) online conference workshops
2) regularly scheduled phone calls.

2020  - We started planning to adapt to our new way of work, checking on the different online platforms with our volunteers and participants. Our first activity started on April 1, and since then our team has been collaborating with partners and volunteers to animate many activities, some which are listed here.
On average we have had 80 participants per week.
1. Online activities

• Community Workshops and activities Meeting with partners , ArtHive , Groove with Nadine, etc)
• Cultural Workshops (diffrent languages)
• Tax Clinic workshop
• French and English Conversation

This project allowed us to target the technology needs of seniors, offering one-on-one training sessions, tablets for those who needed them, and virtual workshops on various technology skills such as zoom, email, phone calls, and taking pictures.

Through activities and workshops, the development of parenting skills and the father-child attachment bond is promoted in order to improve the quality of life of families in NDG's priority sectors. Initially planned in small groups around the Walkley and St-Raymond Centres.

«Meet Candidates» is a nonpartisan bilingual public assembly moderated by experienced moderators. During this evening, residents will have an opportunity to address their questions about issues that concerns them to the candidates. The NDG Community Council strongly encourages residents to come and participate in number to this assembly.

Project idea submitted by the NDG Community Council - Miyawaki mini forest.

What does it consist of? The project that we are proposing consists of developing a natural mini forest concept inspired by the Miyawaki model for urban forests in urban settings, and to plant them all across the underused green spaces in the city.

The Empress building, located on 5560 Sherbrooke West, is the subject of a public consultation for its requalification in order to meet the cultural and community needs of the neighborhood The Community Council (CCNDG), concerned about the quality and efficiency of cultural services in NDG, invites you to a virtual workshop on Zoom on Tuesday, December 1st at 6:30 pm. The goal of this workshop will be to collect ideas about the re-qualification of the Empress.

Useful links:

https://montreal.ca/en/articles/transformation-empress-7251

https://youtu.be/Z47KLD_poyc

Participants worked in break-out groups, tackling questions such as "What do you like about NDG? What needs to change? and How can we make that happen together?"

2017
https://www.facebook.com/events/418515555189476/

Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/planNDG

Media
https://www.thesuburban.com/news/ndg-quality-of-life-conference-helps-define-community-priorities/article_a2584895-954b-51d7-aa53-592fa9422eff.html