Our mission
Our main mission is to enable each child to develop their full potential, in compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Argenteuil Community Social Pediatric Center (ACSPC)
is a bilingual non-profit organization whose main mission is to enable each child to develop to their full potential, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This consists of supporting the growth and optimal development of children from 0 to 18 years of age in a situation of great vulnerability residing on the Argenteuil territory by offering them integrated social medicine services, as well as quality legal services responding to their needs and interests.
Our Center is a warm, familiar and accessible place for the Argenteuil community. The child and the important people around them are welcomed by a dynamic team, made up mostly of health and social services professionals, as well as a team of volunteers and an impressive network of partners in the community, including our schools, the Argenteuil sector of the CISSS des Laurentides and the community.
The role of the Argenteuil Community Social Pediatric Centre is to orchestrate the mobilization and cooperation of caregivers around the needs of children in vulnerable situations, notably by identifying these children and the complex problems that place them in difficulty and then intervening directly on these difficulties through the strength of the network.
A community social pediatrics center
Language stimulation
These incredible years
Psychosocial follow-ups
Medical follow-ups
Group activities
Music therapy
of the professionals
Family Physician or Pediatrician
The Pediatrician or Family Physician specializing in social pediatrics acts as a conductor to heal what may be injured in the child's body, heart and soul due to difficult living conditions. They work in tandem with a psychosocial worker and the child to establish the diagnosis and action plan.
Social Worker
The Social Worker plays a pivotal role in complementing the medical assessment with a psychosocial assessment of the child. They coordinate access to a range of adapted and integrated care and services to implement the action plan that emerges from the clinical assessment.
Specialized Educator
The Specialized Educator ensures the harmonious development of the child or youth participating in the activities. Their main and daily function is to create a stimulating environment that is conducive to the physical, psychomotor, cognitive, language and socio-affective development of the participant, according to their age.
Language Stimulation Agent
The Language Stimulation Agent intervenes with children with communication disorders (language, speech, voice) in order to implement the treatment and intervention plan determined by a Speech-Language Pathologist for the purpose of prevention, screening, rehabilitation or re-education of children who have or are likely to have language, speech and voice disorders.
Number of interventions in various departments
In 2022-2023
- In 2022-2023, 204 children were seen by a doctor, 30 more than the previous year.
- Additionally, some children were seen for language stimulation and individual follow-up. In all, 242 children were seen this year by our professionals.
- A total of 3,694 interventions were carried out during the year, for an average of 19 interventions per child.
- In September, we increased the number of clinic days from five to seven, then in November it was increased to eight clinic days per month.