{"id":21090,"date":"2019-09-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/blog\/le-baobab-familial-une-ressource-pour-relever-une-foule-de-defis\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:21:43","slug":"the-baobab-familial-a-variety-of-family-support-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/blog\/the-baobab-familial-a-variety-of-family-support-services\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baobab Familial: a variety of family support services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe see a lot of little victories, here: children who start to speak French, to socialize, who enter the school system more quickly&#8230;\u201d<\/p><cite><strong>Tamy<\/strong>&nbsp;works for Le Baobab Familial, a Centraide-supported agency. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default has-black-color has-text-color\">\u201cI\u2019m a Montrealer of Haitian descent, and working here allows me to better understand what my parents went through as immigrants. I see it in the children, who immediately blend into Quebec culture, while their parents are still in mourning what they\u2019ve left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default has-black-color has-text-color\">There are many challenges when you arrive, but your kids push you to go for it, to not stay stuck in a corner. We see a lot of little victories, here: children who start to speak French, to socialize, who enter the school system more quickly&#8230; It\u2019s also a kind of respite for parents who are looking for work or who are returning to school. And for me, it&#8217;s also a chance to slip back into childhood, and put aside the burdens of being an adult. I could have ended up as one of those teachers who likes to point accusatory fingers at her students; I\u2019m so glad I get to enjoy dancing and jumping with them!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default has-black-color has-text-color\">\u2014&nbsp;Tamy&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe see a lot of little victories, here: children who start to speak French, to socialize, who enter the school system more quickly&#8230;\u201d Tamy&nbsp;works for Le Baobab Familial, a Centraide-supported agency. \u201cI\u2019m a Montrealer of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"922,920,815,5922,547,819","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[674],"tags":[665,675,680],"content-type":[709],"sector":[183],"class_list":["post-21090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-inclusion","tag-families","tag-refugees-and-newcomers","tag-early-childhood","content-type-testimonials","sector-cote-des-neiges"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 05:37:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23943,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090\/revisions\/23943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21090"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=21090"},{"taxonomy":"sector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sector?post=21090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}