Our History

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For the past few years, FADOQ – Montreal Island Region has designed a plan of action spanning several years to orient its medium-term goals.  The plan of action serves as a reference source for the Regional Board of Directors, affiliated clubs, members and employees alike.

Plan of Action 2007-2008

The most recent FADOQ – Montreal Island Region Annual General Meeting took place on March 27, 2007.

The Board of Directors for 2007-2008 are:

Chair:                           Cécile Plourde

Vice-Chair:                   Norbert Provencher

Treasurer:                     Yves Lauzon

Secretary:                    André Faubert

Director:                       Jean-Claude Duclos

Director:                       Claude Pelletier

Director:                       Muguette Krebs

Director:                       Louise Daigneault

Director:                       Michel Chevalier

FADOQ – Montreal Island Region has a full team of employees and volunteers at your service.

At our Lajeunesse St. headquarters, we work for you every day.

Anne-Marie Drolet	Executive Director amdrolet@fadoqmtl.org
Jocelyn Laplante	Leisure and Communications Development Officer jlaplante@fadoqmtl.org
Andrée Demers-Allan	Coordinator - Roses d'Or Program ademersallan@fadoqmtl.org
Denise Bernatchez	Receptionist dbernatchez@fadoqmtl.org
Mariette Decelles	Accounting Clerk mdecelles@fadoqmtl.org
Valérie Allard	Recreational Activity Officer vallard@fadoqmtl.org
Cecile Plourde	Volonteer membership coordinator cplourde@fadoqmtl.org

                                              

FADOQ – Montreal Island Region has signed province-wide and regional partnership agreements with well-known businesses, enabling you to enjoy privileges with respect to programs, products and services.

One of the FADOQ membership privileges is a free subscription to Virage,  a quarterly magazine (a publication especially for 50-plus people, containing information and current news).  The magazine includes our newsletter, Le Carrefour, a publication for 50-plus residents of the Montreal Island Region.   This subscription is worth over $15.00.

For more details on our partners’ promotional offers, please refer to the Resources and Partners section of this website.

MEMBERSHIP PROFILE

FADOQ – Montreal Island Region has a current membership of 24,000 people aged 50 and over.

Some members belong to affiliated clubs or associations (municipal or parish clubs, retired former employees of certain corporations, sporting associations, etc.) while others have signed up as individuals.

The FADOQ network united associations for 50-plus people over 35 years ago.  We are all familiar with the local “golden age” clubs that have always formed the base of the FADOQ network and are still very much a part of FADOQ – Montreal Island Region.  However, in addition to these conventional golden age clubs, our membership includes various affiliated seniors’ associations reflecting the specific characteristics of our region.  See below for information about these groups, which, over the past few years, have become part of Montreal’s largest seniors’ association.

These associations include organizations whose missions are clearly oriented towards a specific recreational activity, for example, the “Récréforme” Club, which focuses mainly on physical activity for 50-plus people.  The membership of associations concentrating on this type of activity is usually fairly large because they recruit all over the Island of Montreal (as opposed to clubs reaching out, for example, mainly to older persons living in a specific parish).

The members of these associations all worked for the same company. Retired persons from the same organization (and their spouses) who worked together throughout their professional lives share their leisure time within these associations, and their former careers are what they have in common.  A few examples of such associations are “L’amicale des retraités BNC inc.” and the “Retired Montreal Blue Collar Workers”.

Membership in certain clubs consists specifically of representatives of various cultural communities on the Island of Montreal.  Due to the traditions and activities within the communities they represent, these clubs are often quite different from other types of clubs, and their integration into regional life poses a great challenge to FADOQ – Montreal Island Region.  Among such affiliated associations are those within the Italian, Haitian and Vietnamese communities.

As some are aware, in Montreal, individuals can join FADOQ without being members of a local group; those purchasing a FADOQ membership card directly at the regional level become “individual regional members”.  There are over 15,000 individual regional members in Montreal and this number continues to increase.  Some of these memberships resulted from visits to our website.

Reflecting its region, the distinguishing characteristic of FADOQ – Montreal Island is its highly diverse membership.

ROSES D’OR PROGRAM

Roses d’or is a program that evaluates private residences offering services for older persons living in Quebec.  It has been established in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Lower St. Lawrence, Central Quebec, North Shore, Eastern Townships, Gaspé-Magdalen Islands, Montreal, Laurentian, Laval, Mauricie, Quebec City, Chaudière-Appalaches and Saguenay - Lac St. Jean – Ungava regions, and we have compiled a directory of recognized residences in each of these regions.

By exploring the various sections of our site listed below, you can learn a little more about this program—unique to Quebec—which evaluates the quality of services offered by private seniors’ residences.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any comments or questions you may have.

Andrée Demers-Allan, Coordinator

514-844-6919

History

·         1989:  FADOQ – Mauricie Region launches the ROSES D’OR Program in collaboration with other organizations in the region.

·         1992:  FADOQ – Saguenay, Lac St. Jean and Ungava Region (formerly known as the Golden Age Council in this region) takes the program one step further by designing the revised Evaluation Grid.

·         1992-1997:  Many specialists amend the Evaluation Grid in various ways; for example, they add specific standards, reduce the possibility of subjectivity and design a fair method for weighting the various residence categories.

·         1997:  A ROSES D’OR pilot project is implemented; an implementation guide is produced and the Evaluation Grid is validated.

·         1999:  official launch of the ROSES D’OR Program;

·         1999-2000:  ROSES D’OR Program implemented in three Quebec regions;

·         2000:  New changes to the Evaluation Grid following recommendations issued by Regional and Provincial Advisory Committees, Ad Hoc Committee members and the evaluation consultant associated with the Program;

·         2002-2003:  The expertise of FADOQ – Mouvement des Ainés du Quebec is recognized in the field of seniors’ residence evaluation; agreement between FADOQ – Mouvement des Ainés du Quebec and the Quebec Ministry of State for Social Solidarity, the Family and Children is signed and new modifications are made to the various ROSES D’OR measurement instruments;

·         2003-2004:  the first edition of the Roses d’Or Directory of Residences in the Montreal region is issued;

·         2004:  Launch of the 2^nd edition (2004-2006) of the Directory;

·         2005:  Draft Bill 83 respecting the obligation of private residences for independent and semi-independent seniors to be certified is submitted.

·        To improve the quality of life of older persons living in private residences;

·        To evaluate private residences offering services for older persons, through a validated evaluation grid and a systematic process supported by training and a ROSES D’OR Program implementation guide;

·        To develop a directory that older persons, organizations or the general public can use as a reference source when seeking high-quality residential facilities.

The mandate of this committee is to promote the implementation of the Roses d’or Program by initiating and synchronizing actions that will result in the evaluation of private residences within its territory.

Committee members have committed themselves, via letter of agreement, for a minimum of two years, to supervising the implementation of the Program in accordance with procedures and policies determined for this purpose and with procedures and policies that may be determined at a later date, by agreement.

The Committee develops Program funding strategies for its region.

For 2006-2008, the Committee was made up of individuals representing the following associations:

·         FADOQ – Montreal Island Region

·         Agence de développement de réseaux locaux de services de santé et de services sociaux

·         Association des résidences familiales du Québec

·         Associations des résidences et CHSLD privés du Québec

·         Direction de la santé publique

·         Régie du bâtiment

·         Regroupement des CLSC de Montréal

·         Table de concertation des aînés de l’île de Montréal

·         City of Montreal

FADOQ – Montreal Island Region makes a wide range of activities, offering something for everyone, available to all of its members.  First of all, click on the Schedule of Activities link for general information on our program of activities which have been our badge of success for years (ex: FADOQ.ca Workshops, travel, Montreal Island 50+ Games, etc.) !  Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Valérie Allard, Recreational Activity Officer
Telephone:  514 271-1411, Ext. 229
E-mail:  vallard@fadoqmtl.org

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