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Welcome to Grossesse‑Secours

Grossesse-Secours' mission is to offer anyone affected by a planned or unplanned pregnancy a listening ear, support, information and referrals, while fully respecting their reality, personal choices and values.

Grossesse-Secours offers a helpline and chat service, in-person meetings, free urine pregnancy tests, workshops and sex education booths, abortion support and a contraceptive prescription service.

A short history of Grossesse-Secours...

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Grossesse-Secours was founded by women who wanted to help women for whom pregnancy isn’t always good news.

Hiring of a coordinator to supervise the listening service provided exclusively by a team of volunteers.

Awareness-raising visits to schools on preventing teenage pregnancy.

Creation of the clothing counter.

Opening of the daycare centre for children aged six months and over.

Acquisition of the triplex on Beaubien Street in Montreal.

Opening of an lodging service for young mothers.

“5 à 7” workshops for teenagers begin at Grossesse-Secours.

Conversion of the part-time daycare centre into a full-fledged daycare centre.

Closing of the daycare centre

Creation of a community thrift shop (formerly the clothing counter).

1. Closure of the lodging service.

2. Development of sex education workshops with a focus on reproductive and sexual health.

Opening of the chat service.

Expansion of the helpline service, Monday to Sunday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Closing of the community thrift shop.

Expansion of chat service, from Monday to Sunday, from 9 AM to 9 PM. (in French and English)

Board of Directors

  • Mariève Talbot-Savignac, Chair
  • Mathilde Lefebvre, Vice-Chair
  • Laura Pelland-St-Pierre, Secretary
  • Valérie Francoeur, Treasurer
  • Laurie Fradette-Drouin, Director
  • Marianne Verreault, Director
  • Vanessa Mejia Morales, Director

Work team

  • Josiane Robert, Director
  • Andrea Rocha, Community Worker
  • Romina Salinas-Munoz, Community Worker
  • Frédérique Blanchet, Sexology Consultant
  • Jeanne Laplante, Sexology Consultant
  • France Désilets, Nurse
  • Jasmine Sarzo, Communications Project Manager