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Montreal West Island Crisis Center
Centre de crise de l'Ouest de l'Île de Montréal

514-684-6160

To help you get through this


Our approach is focused on respect for individual autonomy. A crisis often brings on a sense of confusion and chaos where everything seems difficult to overcome. People in crisis may feel unable to find solutions because they do not have the energy to make decisions or take action that would permit them to reestablish a sense of well-being. By working together with the person in crisis, our objective is to enable the person to reappropriate their own means with dignity and at their own pace.

In order to understand the crisis that a person is experiencing, we explore the person's life-course as well as their family, social and professional support networks with them. It is important for the person to understand that the crisis is part of his or her life-course and that it has meaning when considered in relation to all the past and present dimensions of the person's life.