The Institut Raymond-Dewar (IRD) is a public network of health and social services in Quebec. Multiregional center specializing in rehabilitation and subspecialty deafness and communication, IRD is affiliated with the University of Montreal and associated with the University of Quebec in Montreal and at the Cégep du Vieux-Montreal. The IRD's primary mandate is to provide rehabilitation services in the Montreal and Laval for deaf clients, hearing impaired, deaf-blind or have a disability hearing center. In the Montreal area, services are provided to children with dysphasia. In addition, the IRD takes delivery of specific currents psychosocial services to the deaf gesture.
Old Brewery Mission was in its origin a soup kitchen.programs and services have increased with the growing needs of the homeless population in Montreal. Several factors can lead to homelessness: poverty, insufficient income to pay rent, loss of income, a family crisis.