Projects, Spaces and
Working Committees
Four foundational projects were
selected during the strategic planning process
The Carrefour
Alimentaire Project
The Carrefour Alimentaire, in the field of food security, is one of the four foundational projects selected during the social development strategic planning process. Predominantly funded through phase 2 of Centraide’s Collective Impact Project (CIP), it follows the “path” to the ultimate goal, “In 3 years, citizens will have better living conditions”.
It includes three streams:
• Emergency food assistance
• Skill development
• Development of the food environment
In phase 2 of the CIP, the project mobilizes, unites and empowers key players who act as intervention vectors. This project aims to create a local, sustainable food system.
Discussions concerning this project take place at TDSL facilities and are co-hosted by the TDSL and the Nutri-Centre LaSalle, a key food security resource in LaSalle.
Showcasing
our Resources
During the strategic planning process, LaSalle stakeholders quickly identified the need to get to know and acknowledge each other, and to make LaSalle resources better known and more accessible. This is clearly expressed in the strategies on shared knowledge, knowledge acquisition, better collaborative work, and cooperation.
A number of proposals were put forward. Among these, the idea of creating a portrait of LaSalle emerged as a priority. This project involves several stages and the development of various tools.
Several steps have already been completed, including the creation of a stakeholder map, which involved the following four steps:
- Drawing up a list and typology of the stakeholders involved in the LaSalle consultation process
- Defining the mandate or mission, territory or scale of intervention, service offering, and type of clientele targeted by LaSalle stakeholders involved in concerted actions
- Identifying local and organizational obstacles, challenges and social and territorial concerns of LaSalle stakeholders involved in concerted actions
- Identifying the local social, territorial and organizational perspectives or aspirations of LaSalle stakeholders involved in concerted actions
This first phase of the portrait can be considered innovative, given what it offers to the community. Collaterally, it will serve the objective of laying the groundwork for a common awareness of the area and promote solidarity between stakeholders around the social development plan’s vision of change. This plan was adopted by the Table de développement social de LaSalle in November 2024. The Table plans to use the data from this mapping exercise during roundtables and panels to raise awareness, train or share knowledge with local stakeholders, in order to better support the next strategic planning process.
The committee supporting this project is the TDSL strategic planning steering committee, also known as the PIPO (portrait steering) committee. It should be ready to submit a portrait of LaSalle to members in 2026.
Face Time
During the strategic planning process, partners expressed the need for training, access to documentation, networking, and formal and informal meetings to gather people around consultation forums and common projects. This initiative takes many forms, and since its launch, the Table has explored a number of avenues:
Creating and coordinating a physical setting at Espace Prismez-vous to provide formal and informal opportunities for organizations to share Starting work on a calendar of monthly events (training sessions, workshops, presentations, etc.) to be held in this space
Organizing fun activities that bring people together to celebrate success
This project also ensures that the team at the Table prioritizes outreach and information sharing for the LaSalle committees and projects it takes part in, whenever possible.
Through these communication activities, the Table seeks to highlight the achievements of its members, including through its social media accounts.
Les discussions et le suivi spécifique du financement du PIC 2 de Centraide, se passent à son comité de coordination, appelé PICTOU.
Welcoming Newcomers and Facilitating their Integration
During the strategic planning process, the issue of welcoming and integrating newcomers to LaSalle quickly emerged as a collective concern. In the plan’s strategy for change, there is a distinct path towards the three changes regarding this issue.
Initially, the project objective was a better life for newcomers, and it seemed clear that ongoing discussions were needed to better identify the most promising project for advancing this change.
Since implementing the strategic plan and this project, the team at the Table has been working on testing and documenting practices. To this end, it leverages strategies aimed at reaching a shared understanding of our neighbourhood as well as collecting data on collaborative work in this area and the need to learn to co-create, cooperate and better coordinate to improve togetherness.
In 2024, a Facebook page entitled IntégrAction was created to offer newcomers simple and timely access to news, activities and essential resources to facilitate their integration.
In 2025, a service guide for newcomers was also created by the TDSL team, and discussions are underway to share it widely.
From the start of the 2025 school year, discussions on the deployment of the project will revolve around a new workspace, Espace IntégrAction.
Additional Spaces
Shack Communautaire at Ménard Park
This project was not initially part of the strategic plan. However, as we kept members regularly informed of strategic plan and project advancement, we also collectively decided to adapt the plan to emerging needs and opportunities. The project emerged from this consensus.
In keeping with the real issues facing local residents, the members asked the TDSL team to:
- Defend the use of buildings and land belonging to private, public, institutional or community interests
- Promote collective projects developed on these sites and support involvement in these projects
The team came back with a proposal for a simple short-, medium- and long-term work plan concerning premises in LaSalle. The first step of this plan was to develop service hubs in existing facilities, an undertaking which does not require important investments. The Shack Communtaire project at the Ménard Park welcome centre is the first step of this plan for a better use of premises on LaSalle territory.
To this end, we helped our partners with:
- Coordinating the use of the Ménard Park welcome centre
- Reclaiming a space to make it a safe living environment, and a place for community sharing and solidarity
- Offering youth and families various activities related to the environment and food security
“The stone has no hope of being anything other than a stone. But, by collaborating, it assembles and becomes a temple.”
La table de développement
social de LaSalle (TDSL)
8700, Hardy Street
LaSalle, Québec H8N 2P5
info@tdslasalle.org
514-367-6340
