Are you experiencing domestic violence? Wondering whether to leave or stay? Our counsellors are here to listen and walk with you without judgment, in complete confidentiality.
MFI Β· QuΓ©bec City
418 652-9761
Help in your language
We welcome immigrant women and their children in a multicultural, multilingual space. Our counsellors help you understand your situation, your rights and the resources available to you.
π Call usListening line Β· All of QuΓ©bec
1 800 363-9010
SOS Domestic Violence
Free and confidential service available around the clock. They listen, support you and can connect you with the nearest organization anywhere in QuΓ©bec.
π Call discreetlyEmergency services
911
Police Β· Ambulance Β· Fire
If your life or your children's lives are in immediate danger, call 911. Stay on the line. Emergency services respond immediately, 24 hours a day.
π Call 911All communications with the Maison are strictly confidential.
Guiding us for nearly 40 years
Every decision, every intervention, every word spoken here rests on three commitments we renew each and every day.
"Every woman is the author of her own story."
Domestic violence does not only harm the body. It also takes away words, decisions and self-confidence. Here, we give you back concrete tools: training, financial independence and support to rebuild what violence has taken. You never stopped being capable. You simply needed a space to rediscover that.
"What you have been through will never be questioned here."
The first act of care is believing what you are living. No judgment on the time that has passed. No doubt about your pain. Here, you are welcomed as a whole woman with your history, your dignity and your boundaries that are non-negotiable. You deserve respect. Right now. Exactly as you are.
"You are no longer alone. You never truly were."
Violence isolates. It cuts bridges, shrinks the world down to four walls and one voice. Solidarity is the antidote. It is an active network of women, counsellors and allies who refuse to look the other way. Here, resources, information and mutual support become real tools in the hands of those who need them most.
These values are not just words on a page. They are commitments we renew every day with every woman who walks through our door, and with everyone who chooses to support this mission.
40 years of shared trust
Maison pour femmes immigrantes is not a miracle. It is a collective construction made of chosen acts, donated resources and renewed commitments.
There is the nurse who saw what no one wanted to see, and spoke. The doctor who opened his own pharmacy and said "Take what you need." The police officer who came at three in the morning, without judgment, with precise and gentle actions. The teacher who understood that learning French was also learning to speak up for oneself.
Behind every woman who managed to reclaim her life, there was someone who decided not to look away. This section belongs to them.
Every signed grant, every reinforced policy had a face behind it. The ministries, municipalities and public bodies that chose to invest in this mission allowed doors to stay open when everything else was closing.
The Crime Victims Assistance Centre accompanies women free of charge through legal, psychological and practical procedures. Because surviving domestic violence also means navigating a legal system that is often incomprehensible in a language that is not your own.
Police officers, nurses, doctors and social workers those who arrive first see what an untrained eye cannot. Their training, their listening and their careful actions saved lives before women even reached the Maison.
Teachers who welcomed these women's children understood that school could be a space of stability in a world that had just collapsed. Educating a child in these circumstances sometimes means giving them back their future.
A woman who can speak can defend her rights. A woman who can write can read a contract, a judgment, a protection order. French language programs did not only give a language they gave a voice.
Services provided, training offered, doors opened for professional reintegration. Some gave a quiet donation without asking for recognition in return. Supporting the Maison means deciding together what kind of QuΓ©bec we want to live in.
They trust us
There is something deeply moving about an ordinary person who, on a Tuesday morning, decides to donate to the Maison. Not because anyone asked them at a gala. Not because of a tax credit. But because they read something, felt something and did not want to stand by and do nothing. We do not all know their names. But we know the effect of their generosity. We see it every day, in every woman who reclaims her life.
This circle never closes
Come in. Whether with resources, time, expertise or a donation there is a place for you in what we are building together.