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The years spent at the head of CPIVAS since May 2018, have been filled with significant challenges, great satisfactions, and beautiful encounters! At the heart of this action is my deepest wish to fight sexual violence and offer women, men, teenagers, and their loved ones struggling with such experiences, the support, comfort and tools to regain power over their lives. I believe prevention is a powerful way of educating people of all ages about issues such as sexual violence. I have stepped up my efforts to consolidate our prevention and intervention team. As a result, we’ve gone from 7 to 16 employees in just a few years, not counting the trainees who come to lend us a hand on a regular basis! Growing an organization like ours is certainly one of my most significant accomplishments! I’m proud to lead a team of competent and dedicated professionals and to act as liaison with a skillful and dynamic board of directors.

I joined the CPIVAS team in June of 2019. I had worked for a municipal organization for 30 years. My job there was completely different. When I came across the CPIVAS job offer, I was drawn to it because of its human aspect and sensitivity to a cause so close to my heart. The Administrative Assistant position was new to me and filled with exciting challenges. My role is to support the General Manager and the CPIVAS team. For me, customer service is paramount, and my role, welcoming our clientele, is crucial. I like to see their and our team members’ well-being. An Administrative Assistant should be thorough, autonomous, organized and a good listener. I greet our clientele with warmth and kindness and try to reassure them… I take these responsibilities to heart, and it’s my way of helping people.

I’ve been working at CPIVAS since 2002. Driven by values of justice, equality, and solidarity, it is with compassion that I accompany victims of sexual violence every day so that they can regain power over their lives, improve their quality of life and achieve overall well-being. I also work with loved ones to help them become resilient guides, helping victims bounce back and rebuild their lives after experiencing sexual assault. In addition to helping create change on an individual level, my involvement with CPIVAS is also motivated by the need to participate in transforming the social norms that support sexual assault. To that end, I work to dismantle the rape culture by raising awareness about the attitudes and prejudices that trivialize and normalize sexual violence, promoting fair and equal relationships between sexes and cultivating a culture of consent.

I’m delighted to join the CPIVAS team as a sexologist and psychotherapist. Having worked with a vulnerable clientele for many years, I have a passion for psychosocial intervention in all its forms and for psychoeducational tool creation. It’s a real privilege to accompany people through their healing process and witness them regain power over their lives. An activist at heart, I’ve always identified with the values of feminist intervention. I am proud to take part in the fight for equality, respect, and social justice as part of a dynamic and passionate team.

The way I see it, working for CPIVAS allows me to put into practice everything I’m made of. That is my training as a sexologist, my experience facilitating prevention workshops and my feminist activist side. The best part of my job is having access to discussions with children and teenagers on preventing sexual violence. Together, we talk about a sensitive and taboo subject to collectivize the issue and provide an egalitarian society to all. What I appreciate all the more is having the chance to create prevention tools that raise awareness among young people on a broader scale. Finally, being a member of the CPIVAS team provides me with the best opportunities in a stimulating and enriching environment.

My bachelor’s degree in criminology led me to work as a rehabilitation educator in a youth centre. Those 13 years have taught me to accompany better children and teenagers dealing with issues such as behaviour and adjustment disorders, neglect, violence in a family setting, abandonment, mental health, emotional management, substance abuse, sexual offences, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. My background also includes 5 years teaching English in Japan, which introduced me to educational content design and project management. CPIVAS now welcomes me to take part in its challenge to prevent sexual violence through its workshops in elementary and high schools promoting respect, caring, and gender equality. I’m proud to be able to contribute to their mission. I’m convinced that prevention is at the heart of bringing about positive and lasting change in society.

I’ve been working at CPIVAS since 2006. I completed both my university internships within the organization, and I just plain and simply fell in love with it!

People often ask me, “How have you managed working in the field of sexual violence for such a long time…?!” I’ve been asked this question so many times over the years! But my reply remains the same: I love working at CPIVAS because it allows me to be a privileged witness to that crucial moment when a person chooses to take back power over their life (i.e., the moment when they decide to transition from a life of survival to simply living their life without fear, without being a victim, among other things).

Despite the numerous and often disabling consequences associated with sexual violence, I’ve met an impressive number of people committed to taking back power over their lives and … getting better. As far as I’m concerned, having the privilege of supporting/accompanying our clientele throughout this process is a significant, critical, and inspiring experience. As you can see, this work nourishes me from the inside, connecting the heart with what is essential.

I have been working in prevention as part of the CPIVAS team since 2019. With the aim of preventing sexual violence, the essence of my role is to design educational and playful activities to acquire knowledge and develop attitudes and relational skills conducive to the healthy psychosexual and social development of children and adolescents.

The multidisciplinary team at CPIVAS enables me to evolve professionally and make a tangible contribution to building a better world.