About us
Our free and confidential services are offered 365 days a year, 24 hours a day
The shetler
Le Parados' mission is to welcome and shelter women who have experienced violence and their children. In addition to providing a safe place to live, we ensure their immediate needs are met, facilitate their social integration, study, promote, protect, and develop their economic and social rights and interests in every possible way.
Our values
Respect (for oneself, for others and for the resource)
Have consideration and recognition, for oneself and others, even when faced with differences.
Autonomy
Believe, use and develop your potential and personal power.
Reflect, make decisions and act by and for yourself.
Solidarity
In our common interest, develop the bonds that bring us together for our collective and individual well-being.
Our approach
At Parados, the intersectional feminist approach is at the heart of our interventions. We prioritize taking into consideration each womans particular experience, values, culture, religion, language, sexual orientation and everything that may impact them as woman... As professionals, who are aware that our personal experiences may color our perceptions we attempt to, we support our clients in a process of devictimization in order to restores a sense of power over their lives.
The Parados approach focuses on the needs and priorities of the women and promotes the understanding of domestic violence as a social phenomenon rather than in terms of family or relationship conflict. Based on the concept of empowerment, our interventions attempt to give women power over their situation, their lives, their bodies, both collectively and individually. The bond of trust established with women aims to better equip them to strengthen, enhance and restore their self-esteem following the violence they have experienced.
Average clientele per year
52
Sheltered women
83
Sheltered children
51
Women benefited from our external services
29
Children benefited from our external services