JAME
Pairing and Learning
Mission: Education
Formerly known as J'apprends avec mon enfant, JAME is a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the educational success of children aged 0 to 12 in the Greater Montreal area.
Our areas of expertise are:
- family literacy: animations, workshops, training and pedagogical tools for children, parents and participants
- intervention in a multi-ethnic and multilingual environment: winning practices to promote living together, linguistic integration and the educational success of immigrant children
Programmes and activities
Become a volunteer!
Would you like to help a child in his or her school career? Contact us, a child needs you!
A heartfelt thank you to Jacques Goldstyn, our ally and illustrator since 2005, for all his beautiful illustrations and collaborations of all kinds on our projects, year after year! We owe him our logo, our mascot Linoutou and all the drawings you see on this site.
Jacques has been an illustrator for Les débrouillards magazine for many years and is the author of the resulting comic strips. He is also the creator of committed literary works for young people, imbued with poetry and tenderness: Le petit Tabarnak, Le dragon vert,Le prisonnier sans frontières, Jules et Jim, Les étoiles, andmost recently Le tricot.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the magnificent Les Étoiles (TD Canadian Children's Literature Award 2020
Prix des libraires du Québec 2020 - Youth category - 6-11 years old), the very moving Azadah (Governor General's Literary Award in 2017) and the adorable L'Arbragan (Prix des libraires du Québec in 2015, TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2016, Prix du livre jeunesse des bibliothèques de Montréal in 2016, Prix Sorcières Premières lectures 2016, Finalist for the 2014 Governor General's Award - Children's Literature - Illustrated Books category).
Isabelle, volunteer
In September 2016, when I met Liang's mother for the first time, she seemed extremely anxious that her 8-year-old son, because of his problems in French, would miss his primary and secondary schooling, his entry into college, university, in short his life....
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Kristina, parent
I really appreciate the service JAME offers for children with reading difficulties. It is an outstanding programme which I believe enables children to develop not only reading skills but also emotional skills which enrich them personally and socially.
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Children 0-5 years old reached each year
Children aged 6-12 reached each year
Parents supported by our activities
Trained participants and/or using our teaching tools
News
Monitoring report 2021/2022
After 8 weeks of reading with your reader, tell us about your encounters! Your coordinator will be happy to read you! file:///C:/Users/jamem/Dropbox/PROGRAMME-PHARE/VOLUNTEERS/Report%20OF%20SUIVI%202019-2020.pdf
JAME: 30 years of stories
This year marks the 30th anniversary of our organization! What a great achievement! To date, thousands of children and their families have benefited from reading support that has enabled them to be accompanied in their learning! To mark this happy anniversary, we would like to...
Annual report 2020-2021
Adaptation ... That's the word that comes to mind when we think of the school year that has just ended! AGM-Annual Report 2020/2021
