Services offered by Centre d’Aide et de Lutte contre les Agressions à Caractère Sexuel

Le CALACS L’ESPOIR des Îles offers diversified services to women 14 years and older years, who have been subjected to sexual aggression.
The services offered by CALACS are confidential and free of charge
986-6111

Direct Aid
• Meetings
• Telephone support line
• Information
• Reference to other services such as, Accalmie, Sentin’Elle, Éclaircie, Centre Jeunesse

Individual Encounters
• Establish a personalized intervention plan that functions best to fit the needs of the person
• Help them to regain confidence in themselves
• Help them to regain the power to take back there lives
• Help them to overcome the consequences of aggression

Support Groups
• Share their experience with other women
• Avoid being alone
• Help them break the feeling of isolation and loneliness
• Understand the impact, the place, and the consequences of aggression
• Help them to decide their objectives and to identify their strengths and resources
• Help break the wall of silence
• Help the victim readapt to their body and sexuality
• Help them regain confidence
• Help them decide what they want to change about their lives and the ways they can achieve this

Accompaniment
Support :
• Explain the judicial process
• Help in the preparation of the victims testimony
• Support and accompaniment through the whole process
The designated center (Hospital)
• Assure first contact for the benefit of the victim
• Give the victim a chance to talk
• Give the victim time to define their needs and to make the appropriate decisions
• Accompany the victim through the forensic and medical exam
• Pass on necessary information to the victim
• Assure a psychological follow-up
Sûreté du Québec (Police Station) :
• Preparation of the victims statement
• Accompaniment with the registration of the statement

Support for the family
• Help the people close to the victim
• Inform the victim the importance to believe
• Listen and support