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Download the tools developed by L’Appui to support winning practices. Explore a variety of carefully selected resources designed to enhance your interventions and encourage reflection. Discover useful links to help you better understand and navigate digital technologies.

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The Needs of Caregivers

Recognizing and expressing one’s needs can be challenging for caregivers. The practitioner’s role is to support caregivers throughout this process by helping them clarify and better understand their needs, while encouraging them to prioritize them and explore ways of addressing them that are appropriate for their situation.

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Exploring the Caregiver’s Context

Exploring the caregiver’s context helps provide more effective support by enabling a better understanding of the challenges they face, highlighting their strengths, adapting support to their specific needs, and making adjustments to respond appropriately to changes that may arise.

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Risk and Protective Factors in Caregiving

Risk and protective factors are elements or conditions that can either promote or negatively affect a person’s health, well-being, and quality of life. Identifying these factors in a caregiving context helps better recognize the specific challenges and needs of caregivers.

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Care Mapping

Caregivers are not always fully aware of all the people around them who may be part of their support network. Care mapping helps visualize the entire network.

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The Fatigue Barometer : Recognizing the Signs

Caregivers may experience periods of fatigue. The Fatigue Barometer is a visual tool that helps practitioners identify and recognize key warning signs.

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Psychosocial Support Services for Caregivers

There are various forms of psychosocial support available to help caregivers overcome the emotional, social, or relational challenges they may encounter in their caregiving role. Each type of support offers specific benefits, as well as certain limitations.

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Respite Services for Caregivers

Respite care is recognized as an essential service that can help ease caregivers’ daily responsibilities and support the maintenance of a healthy life balance. Each type of respite care offers specific benefits, as well as certain limitations to consider.

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Information and Training Activities for Caregivers

Information and training activities help caregivers access accurate, relevant, and tailored information, while strengthening the knowledge and skills they need to better fulfill their caregiving role. Each type of information and training activity offers specific benefits, as well as certain limitations to consider.

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Tools for Caregivers

Three of the tools listed above are also available in versions designed for caregivers. They were developed so that caregivers can use them independently.

Explore Useful and Practical Resources

In addition to the tools developed by L’Appui as part of the Winning Practices project, we offer resources created by collaborators, partners, caregiver support organizations, and public organizations. These resources have been carefully selected to enrich your interventions and stimulate reflection.

Aider les jeunes aidant.e.s à s’épanouir

Proche aidance Québec

The organization Proche aidance Québec has developed intervention tools that present various strategies that can be adopted by healthcare and education professionals, based on the most recent scientific evidence and best practices from around the world.

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Boîtes à outils bientraitance

Proche aidance Québec

The caregiving role can be a meaningful and enriching experience of supporting others, but it can also involve risks of mistreatment. Promoting compassionate and respectful care toward caregivers is a shared responsibility. Proche aidance Québec has developed toolkits on this topic for different audiences.

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Grille de dépistage auprès des personnes proches aidantes

Centre de recherche et d'expertise en gérontologie sociale (CREGÉS)

This screening tool was developed to systematically determine the level of risk associated with a caregiver’s situation and the urgency of intervention required.

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Guide de bonnes pratiques pour l'implication des proches en santé mentale : considérer, intégrer, outiller

Gouvernement du Québec

This guide was developed by the CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale, in collaboration with several partners, for practitioners and managers working with adult mental health populations.

It addresses various clinical, ethical, and legal considerations and aims to support stakeholders in addressing the challenges encountered in practice regarding the involvement of family members and caregivers.

It also aims to support the implementation of clinical practices that promote the involvement and recognition of caregivers in the recovery process of people living with a mental health disorder.

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Guide pratique en technologies éducatives

Association Edteq et CTREQ

This practical, visual, and accessible guide aims to inspire and support educational communities broadly in the thoughtful and responsible use of educational technologies, in order to promote innovative practices that enhance learning and teaching. It is the result of a project led by the Association Edteq in collaboration with the Centre de transfert pour la réussite éducative du Québec (CTREQ).

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L’AIDE-Proches

Centre de recherche et d'expertise en gérontologie sociale (CREGÉS)

The AIDE-Proches tool was developed to provide practitioners with a method for systematically assessing caregivers’ needs.

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La navigation par les pair·e·s : un modèle d’accompagnement novateur pour mieux soutenir les personnes proches aidantes appartenant à un groupe ethnoculturel minoritaire (PAGEMA)

Institut universitaire SHERPA

This guide, developed by the Institut universitaire SHERPA, aims to support managers and decision-makers in the development, implementation, and management of peer navigation programs intended for personnes proches aidantes belonging to an ethnocultural minority group (PAGEMA). It also aims to raise awareness of the realities of PAGEMA caregivers, the role that peer navigation can play within the RSSS, the importance of this type of service in better supporting PAGEMA caregivers, and the issues to consider when implementing these navigation services.

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Le questionnaire de Lou

Laboratoire de recherche et d’actions pour les personnes ayant des problèmes de santé mentale et leurs proches (LaPProche)

The Lou Questionnaire (QL) is the first French-language, self-administered, and illustrated tool designed to help identify school-aged children (7 to 12 years old) who may be experiencing or are experiencing a caregiving situation, and to support timely intervention when needed. Its visual and digital format makes it clear, engaging, and easy to complete.

It was developed and pilot-tested as part of the “Study on Students Supporting a Family Member or Loved One in Quebec” (ESPQ), a research project commissioned by Quebec’s Ministries of Education and Higher Education and coordinated by Aude Villatte and the LaPProche Laboratory team at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO).

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Les grands projets du Regroupement pour la valorisation de la paternité

Regroupement pour la valorisation de la paternité

The Regroupement pour la valorisation de la paternité (RVP) is currently leading four major national initiatives:

A project aimed at supporting the exercise of co-parenting among families with children living with disabilities;
A project focused on supporting community organizations in adapting their practices to the realities of fathers of children living with disabilities;
A project focused on preventing intimate partner violence;
A project aimed at supporting community organizations in adapting their practices to the realities of immigrant fathers.

As part of these various projects, tools have been developed, including training guides, participant workbooks, video capsules, and other resources.

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Outils de sensibilisation – Proche aidance au sein de groupes ethnoculturels minoritaires

Institut universitaire SHERPA

As part of the Government Action Plan for Caregiving (2021–2026), Institut universitaire SHERPA conducted a research project to examine the realities and needs of caregivers from ethnocultural minority groups and English-speaking communities.

To synthesize and share the main findings of the research project, four information sheets were developed. These sheets are awareness-raising tools intended for people working with caregivers. They address the following topics:

Gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) perspective in caregiving;
Facilitators and barriers to accessing and using services;
Support pathways of PAGEMA caregivers;
Caregiving among Quebec’s English-speaking population: profile and needs.

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Reconnaître les personnes proches aidantes comme partenaires pour mieux les soutenir

Gouvernement du Québec

This reference framework is primarily intended for practitioners, managers, and leadership teams within the health and social services network. It aims to equip them with the tools needed to implement practices that support caregivers through a partnership approach during users’ episodes of care and services.

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Répertoire des connaissances en proche aidance

Observatoire québécois de la proche aidance

This directory provides access to reliable, objective, and relevant publications on caregiving in order to encourage action, inform decision-making, and support research. Available in various formats and from Quebec, Canada, and around the world, these publications are intended for all target audiences of the Observatoire québécois de la proche aidance and cover all aspects of caregiving. New publications are added on an ongoing basis.

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Trajectoires de proche aidance

Observatoire québécois de la proche aidance

A caregiving trajectory is a general framework illustrating the different moments and transitions that occur throughout a support relationship experienced by caregivers during one or more caregiving episodes.

The Observatoire québécois de la proche aidance has developed caregiving trajectories to highlight key moments and challenges that may be experienced by different groups of caregivers.

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Stratégies pour accroître l’interactivité des cours en ligne – design et mise en oeuvre

REFAD et CDÉACF

This guide, published by the Réseau d’enseignement francophone à distance du Canada (REFAD) and the Centre de documentation sur l’éducation des adultes et la condition féminine (CDÉACF), is intended for anyone interested in the evolution of technologies used for the delivery of distance education and training.

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Utilisation de la vidéoconférence auprès d'aînés. Résumé des bonnes pratiques en contexte d'interventions de groupe à visée psychosociale

Centre de recherche et d'expertise en gérontologie sociale (CREGÉS)

This document, produced by the Centre de recherche et d'expertise en gérontologie sociale (CREGÉS), provides a summary of best practices for using videoconferencing with older adults during psychosocial group interventions.

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Useful Links to Help Managers Adopt Winning Practices in the Use of Digital Technologies

Demystifying Digital Technologies

MesProcédures.ca

A 100% free toolkit to feel confident with Law 25.

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Programme Transformation numérique des entreprises collectives

A national free training project designed to develop digital skills among professionals and the general public.

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Projet AlphaNumérique

A national free training initiative designed to develop digital skills among professionals and the general public.

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Académie de la transformation numérique (ATN)

The Académie de la transformation numérique (ATN) offers public and private organizations the opportunity to co-create learning pathways tailored to the actual needs of their employees.

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