This year, Lanaudière is receiving more than $151,000 to improve the care journey for children in the region.
Enfant Soleil helps more than 100 healthcare facilities across the province and provides invaluable support to the four major pediatric centres, which give specialized and sub-specialized care to any child who needs it.
Spotlight on a project promising beautiful things on the horizon
CISSS de Lanaudière
For children under the care of youth protection (DPJ), daily life can bring uncertainty and change. When supervised visits with their parents or extended family are possible, they take on great significance. Setting up visitation rooms in the Joliette, Mascouche and Repentigny service points will allow families to make the most of these precious moments in a warm and accessible setting. Designed to feel like real living spaces, these play-friendly rooms will also support the children’s development, including children with special challenges, with child-sized furniture and stimulating toys and materials.
Thanks to $70,000 in joint funding from Enfant Soleil and Santé Québec*, around 1,500 young people will benefit annually from these rooms, which will help nurture positive parent-child interactions. The spaces will also help social workers provide guidance and support while demonstrating parenting skills in a more spontaneous and calming setting. Above all, the children will have a space in which they can play and express themselves, and simply be children.
*2025–2026 funding made possible through an agreement initiated with the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux.
Helping grown-ups improve young lives
Essential support for the entire pediatric ecosystem
Discover other projects funded in the region
1 one-way mirror for therapy
- Jointly funded by Enfant Soleil and Santé Québec*, a one-way mirror will be installed in a therapy room to allow parents to watch their child’s hearing impairment therapy sessions to be able to better understand the challenges their child is facing and to learn rehabilitation strategies they can use at home.
- This mirror will also allow specialists (speech pathologists, audiologists, psychologists, etc.) to observe the sessions in order to improve diagnostic accuracy and interdisciplinary collaboration.
*2025–2026 funding made possible through an agreement initiated with the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux.
1 continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine
- Jointly funded by Enfant Soleil and Santé Québec*, this machine, adapted for newborns and pediatric patients, will quickly and effectively help children in respiratory distress.
*2025–2026 funding made possible through an agreement initiated with the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux.
1 tympanometer and 1 audiometer
- This equipment will provide quick and easy access to hearing screening for around 20 children each week, so that the intervention team can take action at the first sign of a hearing problem and better refer the children to the care they need.
Frédéric Leclair, Enfant Soleil for Lanaudière
Frédéric and his family are brilliant ambassadors who courageously share their story and reality.
Born so silent that it sent a chill through the room, Frédéric was quickly transferred to the Montreal Children’s Hospital, where he was intubated, placed in an incubator and received cooling treatment for 48 hours to protect his brain from a lack of oxygen at birth. The days that followed were marked by the beeping of machines and the bustle of tests. The results painted a complex picture: Frédéric had a cleft palate, was partially deaf, would likely have a developmental delay and had a chromosome 16 abnormality, which posed risks to his lungs and intestines. Today, Frédéric lives with an autism spectrum disorder, among other conditions, and deals with sizeable challenges, but he keeps moving forward at his own pace. Curious and sociable, he likes to feel useful, help others and make his mark wherever he goes. “It is thanks to equipment funded by Enfant Soleil that our boy is still alive today.” –Stéphanie and Luc, Frédéric’s parents