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To help build a more inclusive society by developing the social participation skills of people with intellectual disabilities, while strengthening their ability to function independently and as part of a group.
allows a member to take part in the Opening Doors to Montréal program for 12 weeks
allows a member to participate in the Summer Skills Day Camp for one week. $250 allows a member to enjoy a two-night weekend in the country.
allows a family to participate in the Sexual and Emotional Relationships discussion group (3 sessions)
$250 allows a member to enjoy a two-night weekend in the country.
The 37th edition of our major fundraising event will take place on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at the Jean Duceppe Theatre with the play Consentement by Nina Raine.
Raise funds to enable the MAIH to offer low-cost activities to members with intellectual disabilities and their family members. To participate in this evening and support the MAIH, several choices are available to you. Discover the new formula Sparkling Wine and Sweets which will follow the play Consentement written by Nina Raine and staged by Frédéric Blanchette.
For more information contact Émilie Thierry at communication@amdi.info.
The MAIH throws a party for its members every year during the holiday season. The party is a special occasion for seeing friends, having fun and winding up the year.
The MAIH RBC Challenge is a sporting event to walk or run 5 km as part of the Montreal Marathon to raise money for the MAIH. All participants who represent the MAIH will meet at the starting line of the [...]
The MAIH Corn Roast is an annual event to kick off the fall session at the MAIH. Whether it’s for running into old friends or meeting new acquaintances, or to experience an easy and fun registration process while signing up [...]
Our biggest fundraiser of the year, this event has been in place since 1983. It is held at the end of January every year at Théâtre Jean Duceppe at Place des Arts. The evening event consists of a cocktail buffet [...]
The EnCirquez-vous Gala! will carry you off to a magical imaginary world through a unique show presented every year by the graduating class of the École Nationale de Cirque circus school. Held at TOHU, Montreal’s prime venue for the circus [...]
The MAIH throws a party for its members every year during the holiday season. The party is a special occasion for seeing friends, having fun and winding up the year.
Our members look forward to this event, with more than 150 turning out every year to celebrate the holidays in style. Good food, presents for all, and dancing in a festive ambiance ensure that the MAIH party for the holiday season is a tremendous success!
The MAIH RBC Challenge is a sporting event to walk or run 5 km as part of the Montreal Marathon to raise money for the MAIH. All participants who represent the MAIH will meet at the starting line of the 5 km to take up the challenge together, running or walking! In partnership with RBC, the 2018 Challenge aims to raise funds for the Broaden your Horizons program to allow the MAIH members to travel to New York City in April 2019.
The MAIH Corn Roast is an annual event to kick off the fall session at the MAIH. Whether it’s for running into old friends or meeting new acquaintances, or to experience an easy and fun registration process while signing up for the Fall activities, the MAIH Corn Roast Party is the place to be on the Saturday after Labour Day. On the program: reunions with friends, face painting, performances, music… and the corn roast!
Our biggest fundraiser of the year, this event has been in place since 1983. It is held at the end of January every year at Théâtre Jean Duceppe at Place des Arts. The evening event consists of a cocktail buffet before the play and a sparkling wine and sweets party after the play.
In 1983, Mesdames Lee Garant, Danielle Cousineau and Denise Tonelli made up the first organizing committee of the Soirée Théatre Janine-Sutto on behalf of the Association de Montréal pour les déficients mentaux (renamed the Montreal Association for the Intellectually Handicapped, or the MAIH, in 1987). Thanks to their hard work, more than 650 tickets were sold, and proceeds of over $7,000 were raised. The wine and cheese party (former sparkling wine and sweets) was a success thanks in part to the involvement of two members of the Board of Directors – Messieurs Pierre Desmarais and Maurice Bleau – and of a number of public figures in the business community.
In 1986, encouraged by the success of its French-language theatre event, the MAIH organized an English-language theater evening at the Centaur Theatre.
Through the efforts of all the volunteers and salespeople who have helped organize this event since it first began, nearly one million dollars of proceeds have been raised thanks to the involvement of the Montreal business community. Without the commitment of its honorary chairs, the Janine-Sutto Theatre Evening would never have met with such success:
Mister Georges Groulx
Actor
Mister Gilles Pelletier
Actor
Mister François Richard
Director advisor of Caisses Desjardins de Montréal et de l’Ouest du Québec
Mister Réjean Lévesque
Vice-president Montreal West region, National Bank
Mister Jacques Deschênes
President and CEO of Groupe Deschênes Inc. (1995-2004)
Mister Martin Deschênes
President and CEO of Groupe Deschênes Inc. (2005-2018)
The EnCirquez-vous Gala! is MAIH’s second biggest fund-raising event of the year after the Janine-Sutto Theatre Evening. Introduced in 2013, its aim is to immerse guests in the world of the circus for an entire evening, beginning with special acts presented during the cocktail buffet right before the end-of-year show of the graduating class of the École Nationale de Cirque. We truly hope that guests attending the event enjoy themselves as they join together to help raise funds for the MAIH and its many different projects. This two-part evening provides a networking space in the context of a warm cocktail buffet and the opportunity to take part in an amazing circus show. Each year, the event makes it possible to fund a different MAIH project, with direct benefit to our members.
Discover our new ambassador for the year 2018-2019! Jean-Simon has been a member of the MAIH for two years and motivated to represent the MAIH at best. Dynamic and sparkling, it is also part of the committee members, a committee that was set up in the summer of 2018 and allows members of the MAIH to bring new ideas and directions for the services they want.
Through this video, Liliana Tano, Social and Community Development Coordinator at MAIH and Guillaume Labelle, a member of AMDI since 2015, tell us about the benefits of Opening Doors to Montréal. “An idyllic work from the MAIH that allows members to have a blast in Montréal because the activities are really fun !”. Discover the importance of these workshops by watching the video!
Janine Sutto has been a spokesperson at the MAIH for more than 40 years. Her departure was difficult for many people but she has brought a happiness of great value to the members of the association and will remain forever in our hearts. This video pays tribute to her.
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