Our Programs

A Ma Baie Well Baby Clinic

A bilingual team of educators visits the monthly A Ma Baie Well Baby clinic of the Pierrefonds CLSC. There they meet with families and give each newborn a bag of age appropriate books in either French or English depending on the language of the family. If an older sibling is present, he or she is encouraged to pick a book from a supply of books for older children. In the process of meeting with each family, the importance of daily reading is discussed, questions are answered, and story reading is modeled. An average of 100 book bags are distributed to newborns each year depending on the number of births.

Cloverdale Multi-Ressources

In 2004 - 2005 the clinic program was expanded to include working with Cloverdale Multi-Ressources which serves the families in eastern Pierrefonds. There le goût de lire communitaire | community born to read volunteers have provided books for the Visiting Mother program and the five pre-K classes, conducted reading workshops for parents of pre-kindergarten classes, and have arranged field trips to the Pierrefonds Library for staff, children and their parents. We have also provided second hand books for a community book sale.

Mother Goose Rhyme Time

Pierrefonds Community Project

Located in St. Barnabas Anglican Church in Pierrefonds, PCP hosts monthly community luncheons. community born to read volunteers read stories to the children who are then invited to get their parents and choose a book to take home. Parents of young babies receive book bags. Over the course of seven luncheons, we distribute, on average, 90 English and French books and e8 book bags.

community born to read further supports PCP by arranging trips to the library for their pre-schoolers, donating books to enhance the pre-school program, and sponsoring scrap-booking sessions based on well-known children's books for mothers in the community.

Duff Court

In addition to the programs instituted in Pierrefonds, le goût de lire communitaire | community born to read visits the “Duff Court Drop In Centre for Moms and Tots” in Lachine. The volunteers meet with the mothers of newborns to distribute book bags and to model interactive literacy activities for mom and baby.