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BBBS UPDATES ON RESPONSE TO COVID19

✔️ Mentoring Services – Still active
✔️Clothing drive Services – Still active

The situation caused by Covid-19 can generate great distress for youths and families. We truly hope that each one of you receives the appropriate support necessary. In order to add our services to the aforementioned support, we are actively trying to provide solutions to keep the match relationship functional while respecting the confinement policies set forth by the government.
Our priority is your security and the safety of our volunteers. As a result, our directives will rely on the government’s recommendations concerning public health in order to flatten the curve.
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In order to comply with the norms established by the Public Health officials of Quebec and Canada and frequent changes, please refer to your Mentoring Manager or member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Montreal team.

Resources

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Everyone is facing difficulties at the moment, especially families. Thus, in addition to the services offered by Big Brother Big Sisters of Greater Montreal, we wanted to provide some other references that could be helpful.
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– Suicide prevention center (Suicide Action Montréal): 1-866-APPELLE (277-3553)
– Kids Help Phone: 1 800-668-6868
– Government telephone line providing general information about Covid-19: 1-833-784-4397
– Quebec’s government information for the people line regarding COVID-19 : 1 877 644-4545
– Parents’ line : 1800-361-5085
– Psychosocial phone service ‘Info-Social’ : 811
– SOS violence conjugale : 1 800 363-9010.
– Tel-Jeunes : 1-800 263-2266
– Tel-Aide : 514-935-1101

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ALLOPROF
Exercises, online games, virtual library and applications. Some teachers are also available to help and answer students’ questions. You can call, chat or text. This website is in French.
LES DEBROUILLARDS
This website contains a wide range of suggestion for homemade scientific experiments which are often explained with small explanatory videos.
BIBLIOTHEQUES
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec : youth books available on line. This website is only available in French.
COMIC BOOK
Free printable comic book for kids explaining what is the coronavirus
KHAN ACCADEMIE
Organization promoting education. They offer schedules, worksheets, podcast, book recommendation and much more.
EXPLORE
Live nature camera and documentary film channel. If you enjoy watching and learning about animals this is the place.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR KIDS
National Geographic for kids, allowing them to learn facts about animals, science, history and many other subjects. They also have fun games.

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Online therapy services. This resource is not free.

Domestic abuse resource

Directory for domestic abuse survivors

Domestic Abuse

INSPQ
More resources for survivors. This website is in French but a lot of the resources provided offer services in English.

ACTIVITY IDEAS

  • Vision boards : create vision boards that include ideas for future activities or goals that you’d like to accomplish with your little. You can also put up your own aspirations and dreams. Sharing positivity is a good remedy against isolation.
  • Draw portraits of each other and share them.
  • Make up a game with materials you both have in your homes.
  • Create Easter crafts together or any other crafts.
  • Movie club: watch a movie together while on the phone and have a discussion about it afterwards.
  • Learn a language together.
  • Take a virtual tour of a museum or National park.
  • Watch concerts live together.
  • Book club: read books together and discuss them afterwards.
  • Listen to audio books – Free at stories.audible.com
  • Listen to a podcast.
  • Fitness challenges (i.e. first to do 15 burpees, hold a plank for 30 seconds, etc.).
  • Practice or invent dance moves together (i.e. through TikTok, etc.).
  • Host virtual dance parties.
  •  »Chopped Challenge » : You and your little decide on 5 common ingredients. Individually, you will create your own recipes, with those 5 ingredients as the main focus of the culinary dish. You will have 2 hours to create your meals.
    Then you can present your recipes to each other virtually.
  • Bake cookies or cupcakes and decorate them.
  • Create a playlist (songs that you like or that remind you of each other). You could also give them themes like ‘’Best memories’’ or ‘’Reminds me of you’’.
  • Sing or Create music together (i.e. Garage band, household items such as pots, spoons, real instruments, etc).
  • Join Twitch – platform where you can stream online while playing video games.
  • Utilize technology and social media in order to keep the lines of communication open. Examples include but are not limited to:
    – Share pictures on Instagram
    – Perform a Tiktok dance together
    – Take pictures of your pet(s) with SnapChat
    – Call your little on WhatsApp or Skype
    – If internet is limited or there are restrictions regarding data, call, text or send a vocal text to your little.
  • Learn how to use free photo editing software (i.e. GIMP or Darktable, etc).
  • Paint or draw together using an online tutorial or platform (i.e. through YouTube or Aggie.io)
  • Virtual scavenger hunt : create a list of challenges for the week (i.e. a yoga pose, wear a funny hat, take a photo of a family member sleeping, etc.). In order to get the points, you’ll have to send each other photos of the completed challenges. The one with the most points win! What do they win you might ask? Well, that’s up to you!
  • Engage in any online tutorial together (i.e. via YouTube).
  • Loup Garou online. If you like this idea let us know and we could organize a game with multiple players!
  • One selfie per day where you both are engaged in different tasks – then you can send them to each other at the end of the week.
  • Play games together online.
  • Watch videos together.
  • Watch a documentary together about your favourite animals (i.e. through YouTube, Netflix or National Geographic Kids).