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A passionate, skilled team dedicated to children.

Abilio is first and foremost a team, and each of its members provides important support and contributes to its success.

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Our team

To mobilize childhood knowledge, Abilio relies on the skills of a passionate, experienced and dedicated team.

Staff

Isabelle Vinet

Executive Director

Isabelle holds a master’s degree in psychoeducation from the Université de Montréal with a main focus on the prevention of violence. Over the last 25 years, she has focused her professional activities on knowledge transfer on the optimal development of young children. Notably, she has helped develop and implement promising violence and school dropout prevention programs: Fluppy and Brindami. In turn a trainer and a training manager for CPEQ, she then took on the role of CEO in 2012. As such, she also coordinates the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, the organization that produces the Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development (www.child-encyclopedia.com), a unique and international online reference tool that compiles the most up-to-date knowledge in the world on the development of young children and practices in this field. The Encyclopedia is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.

Dominique Tambosso

Director, Content and Development

Dominique holds a master’s degree in psychoeducation from the Université de Montréal. In collaboration with colleagues and researchers, she developed the “friends” component of the Fluppy program. She then worked as a psychoeducator at the CISSS de Laval, where she worked with vulnerable families and facilitated parenting support meetings. A professor at UQÀM since 2014, she will officially join the CPEQ team in June 2021 as Assistant Director. Drawing on her experience and recognized for her innovative ideas and efficiency, she develops new training programs and supports trainers in their various mandates. It is with great pride and pleasure that she contributes to promoting Abilio’s mission by ensuring that the content of the various training courses offered is developed according to best practices. With a view to continuously improving the organization’s processes and expertise, Dominique analyzes customer needs, liaises between researchers and practitioners, and proposes various development and dissemination strategies.

Stéphanie Justavino

Stéphanie Justavino

Operations Assistant

Stéphanie has been at the heart of CPEQ’s operations since January 2022. All activities inevitably pass through her at one time or another. Trained in the Brindami program and studying for a certificate in psychosocial intervention at UQÀM, she is an important asset to the team. Her sensitivity and understanding of prevention and promotion issues are matched by her thoroughness and the quality of her customer service.

Kristell Le Martret

Operations director and customer service manager

Kristell holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Since the early 2000s, she has been active in the field of early childhood research, applying her experience in knowledge transfer to various dissemination activities related to the Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development. Eager to respond effectively to the objectives and expectations of our partners, she collaborates with enthusiasm, care and dedication on the various projects entrusted to her. As Abilio’s Director of Operations and Customer Service, she is committed to responding effectively to customer needs, ensuring continuous improvement of processes to make the overall client experience optimal.

Valérie Bell

Encyclopedia coordinator

With a background and experience in communications and child care, Valérie started working on the Encyclopedia project from its inception in the early 2000s. She became Encyclopedia Coordinator in 2010. Within Abilio, she will also take on the role of Project Manager.

Isabelle Poulin

Webmaster and documentalist

Graduated in natural sciences and in library and information management techniques, Isabelle has been contributing to the Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development since 2002. With exemplary rigor and a keen sense of analysis, she is passionate about research and information. As a webmaster, Isabelle has become an essential collaborator in our digital projects, implementing her creativity and adapting to the evolution of the Web to ensure the quality and accuracy of our online content. Her dedication and expertise remain significant assets within Abilio.

Aristeea Dobrinescu

Administrative assistant

Since 2006, Aristeea has held the position of Administrative Assistant within the organization. Supporting all Abilio’s activities, she carries out the many tasks entrusted to her with rigor, efficiency and unrivalled organizational skills. As the primary contact with customers, Aristeea contributes to the organization’s notoriety through the quality of her service and the efficiency with which she responds to various requests. She is an essential asset to the Abilio team!

Trainors

Dany Massé

Holding an undergraduate degree in psychoeducation from the Université de Montréal, her professional career started at the Centre Rosalie-Jetté with teenagers mothers. There, she assessed parental skills, accompanied and supported mothers in developing these skills and facilitated stimulation workshops to promote parent-child attachment.

She then worked as a psychoeducator in a CLSC with the Family-Childhood-Youth team where she continued to support parents and helped them develop parental skills. She facilitated several training courses on validating the father’s role for various Health and Social Services Centers in addition to training future facilitators in the “Nobody’s Perfect” program.

She has been a trainer at CPEQ for the Minipally program, a program on the development of social skills and self-control in children ages 0 to 5 years old. She facilitates other training courses intended for early childhood educators, such as collaboration with parents. Finally, she offers conferences for parents on the development of self-control as well as the development of social skills.

Julie Benoit

Maître en psychoéducation et membre de l’Ordre des éducatrices et éducateurs de la petite enfance de l’Ontario, Julie Benoit a œuvré pendant plusieurs années comme éducatrice et directrice dans différents centres éducatifs à l’enfance. Fondatrice et coordonnatrice d’un camp de jour francophone pour filles pendant plus de 10 ans, elle est maintenant professeure au Programme Éducation en services à l’enfance au Collège La Cité d’Ottawa. Au fil des ans, Julie a développé une expertise en matière de développement de l’enfant et de gestion des comportements d’enfants présentant des troubles d’adaptation ou des retards de développement. Elle est auteure de plusieurs formations qui ont été offertes notamment à l’Association francophone à l’éducation des services à l’enfance de l’Ontario, à la Faculté de médecine de l’Université d’Ottawa, au Ministère de l’éducation du Québec et de l’Ontario et dans différentes commissions scolaires et conseils scolaires en Ontario et au Québec. En 2006, elle remporte le Prix d’excellence en enseignement de La Capitale nationale pour la qualité de son enseignement, son enthousiasme, sa créativité et son dynamisme contagieux. Elle collabore avec le CPEQ depuis 2008 en tant que formatrice.

Marie-Michèle Brossard

Marie-Michèle holds a bachelor’s degree in criminology and a master’s in psychoeducation from the Université de Montréal. Thanks to her professional experience, she has developed an expertise in post-traumatic stress in children with attachment disorders and adults who have experienced different types of traumatic events. In her interventions, she favors a systemic approach based on empowerment and attachment. She also uses complementary approaches based on the adaptive capacities of an individual and the importance of family, social and community networks. Her passion for psychoeducation has also led her to develop a great interest in international collaboration. Her work and volunteering experience in various countries such as Ireland, India and Haiti led her to see the importance and richness of the different approaches to interventions. Finally, for the last three years, she has taught psychoeducation as a lecturer at the Université de Montréal.

Roxanne Morency Weir

With a master’s degree in psychoeducation from the Université de Montréal, Roxanne is passionate about human connections. In her training, she favors a participatory, experiential and motivational approach aimed at bringing out the power to act in professionals.

Over the years, Roxanne has gained a lot of experience in psychoeducational support, including for children, adolescents and families in the context of protecting youth. Through her community and professional engagement, she has guided work teams and various clients in rediscovering their sense of balance in daycare environments, life and hobbies.

Involved since 2016 in the international cooperation organization Psychoéducation Sans Frontières, Roxanne was inspired by psychoeducation to work creating spaces for sharing psychosocial and educational support in cultural communities both in Quebec and abroad. At the same time, she is pursuing a short graduate program in participatory intervention to deepen the effect of her relational posture on her practice.

France Capuano

France Capuano, PhD, is a full professor with the Département d’éducation et formation spécialisées of the Université du Québec à Montréal’s Faculté des sciences de l’éducation. She holds an undergraduate and a graduate degree in psychoeducation and she holds a doctorate in psychology from the Université de Montréal. She also holds the Robert Sheitoyan Chair in violence and delinquency prevention.
Her research mainly focuses on the prevention of behavioural problems in preschool-aged children. She has created and evaluated several prevention programs such as the Fluppy program, which has been implemented in the kindergartens of several regions of Quebec since 1990. For the last 30 years, she has worked closely with child care workers, school staff and health and social services workers to implement and evaluate promising practices for children with behavioural problems. She has extensive experience training and advising this personnel.

Sellina-Anne Faucher

Sellina-Anne has always shown great interest in early childhood and the helping relationship. Following different work and facilitation experiences with children in Quebec and abroad, she earned her bachelor’s degree in psychoeducation in 2012. Well before her studies, and still to this day, Sellina-Anne remained in the early childhood environment (childcare centers) as a childhood educator. After a professional break leading to her travelling for several months, she began her career as a human relations officer with youth centers. Following her maternity leave, she continued her studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal with a DESS in behavioural intervention with persons with ASD and discovered a passionate interest for special education in schools. Known as a cheerful, dynamic and creative person, Sellina-Anne joined the CPEQ team in 2016.

Pauline Ladouceur

Pauline Ladouceur taught in primary school for 25 years as a teacher for regular classes as well as a remedial teacher. A visiting professor for five years at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) for the school adjustment module, she was responsible for the 1st year and 4th year bachelor program internships. She worked for five years at the Fédération des syndicats de l’enseignement (FSE-CSQ) as an educational records advisor, including for records of struggling students (EHDAA).
In 2011, she had the honour of being the recipient of the Prix de l’Internationale de l’éducation and to be named Personnalité de la semaine by the Montreal newspaper La Presse. Since 2013, Pauline has been a trainer with CPEQ.

Nathalie Vanier

Nathalie Vanier, who has worked in the field of early childhood education since 1991, developed an expertise in establishing training programs for early childhood social skills and overall stimulation. After earning her bachelor’s degree in academic and social adjustment in 2002, she has worked on several research projects at UQAM, such as the coordination, development and establishment of a program called La forêt de l’alphabet, which seeks to prevent learning difficulties with reading in preschool. She has also worked on translating and adapting the peer tutoring program, Apprendre à lire à deux, intended for the first year of primary school. In addition, she has assisted several school teams in developing effective literacy and social skills. Furthermore, she has worked as a remedial teacher in underprivileged and allophone communities, has given courses on remedial reading instruction at UQAM and has worked as an education consultant in school adjustment in liberal adult education. Ms.Vanier is currently the deputy director of a liberal adult education and francization centre.

Émilie Cloutier

Émilie is one of our Fôrest de l’alphabet trainor.

Jacinthe Dumont

With a master’s in psychoeducation, Jacinthe Dumont was a clinical advisor with youth centers, schools and local community health centers. Then, as a self-employed worker, she became a trainer and researcher for different rehabilitation centers in the metropolitan area. A lecturer for UQAC since 1993 and for the Université de Sherbrooke since 1994, she is also a professor at Cégep de Jonquière. From 1999 to 2014, Jacinthe was the early childhood records custodian at the Agence de la santé et des services sociaux du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. She worked to support the integration of programs that are recognized to be effective in promoting child development and parental skills. This last experience combined with her work at the Institut national de santé publique (INSPQ) contributed to her strong interest in the development of young children. With this background, she became a trainer at CPEQ where she teaches the Minipally training course. She also offers private professional consultation for psychoeducators and early childhood centres, as well as family and individual counselling.

Marie-France Côté

Détentrice d’un baccalauréat en enseignement en adaptation scolaire et social (primaire) à l’UQAM qu’elle complète en 2009, Marie-France Côté poursuit immédiatement ses études à la maîtrise au département des didactiques des langues. Par la suite, elle entame ses études au doctorat à l’Université McGill dans le département de psycho-éducation. Tout au long de ses études, elle réalise des contrats en orthopédagogie dans divers milieux scolaires ainsi qu’au privé. De plus, elle participe à plusieurs projets de recherche en lien avec l’apprentissage de la lecture et de l’écriture chez les élèves en difficulté du primaire. Ses recherches personnelles portent plus précisément sur le transfert des apprentissages des élèves qui éprouvent des difficultés et sur les méthodes d’enseignement visant à favoriser l’apparition de ce dernier. Marie-France Côté est formatrice pour le Sentier et la Forêt de l’alphabet depuis 2013 pour le CPEQ.

Sophie Gilbert

Resource teacher by training since 1995, Sophie Gilbert earned her bachelor’s degree at UQAM, where she specialized in psycholinguistics. She began her career as a language teacher for dysphasic students in preschool and primary school, a position she held for eight years. She then became a remedial teacher for preschool and primary school students of underprivileged communities for the following seven years. Sophie Gilbert has been an education consultant in preschool education since 2010 for the Rivière-du-Nord school board.
She is particularly interested in preventative action in early childhood and respect for a child’s overall development. Sophie Gilbert is convinced that La forêt de l’alphabet training offers a balanced approach while introducing the fundamentals of an effective and preventative global response in the field of early learning in reading, all while respecting a preschool education program and children’s overall development. It is in this context that Sophie Gilbert joined the CPEQ training team to provide training with La forêt de l’alphabet. She has been with the team since 2013.

Clara Groulx-Swinnen

Clara will soon graduate from the master’s program in psychoeducation from the Université de Sherbrooke. Clara is conducting a study on the relationship between how well a family functions and oppositional defiant disorder in children. During and after her bachelor’s studies in psychoeducation, Clara was and will be involved with several clients: children in childcare centres, children placed with foster families, adults with mental health issues, students with autism spectrum disorder, adolescents in exploration of vocational training programs and children and adolescents with behaviour disorders and internalizing disorders. Finally, she is currently completing her final internship with the Santé Mentale Jeunesse team at the CSSS La Pommeraie in Cowansville.

Julie Fraser

With a master’s degree in psychoeducation that she received from the Université de Montréal in 1995, her thesis focused on the evaluation of a drug addiction prevention program for children at the end of primary school. Prevention has always interested her. She was the first author of an article about a survey of addiction prevention programs published in Science et Comportement. At the beginning of her career, she was an educator in a youth centre for adolescents with adjustment difficulties. At the same time, she worked on a helpline and trained volunteers for Grossesse Secours. Adventurous and unafraid to take on new challenges, she intervened for Inuit clientele in the Far North of Quebec. She has been an educator since 2002 with the Centre de Psychoéducation du Québec and trains daycare educators to use the Minipally program. Julie says that this gives her the energy to continue intervening in schools to help struggling children. She uses the Fluppy and Minipally programs daily in her work and she sees the playful faces of children fascinated by the characters telling them stories. In her work in primary schools, she leads workshops on managing anger and stress, and solving problems. She acts as an advisor for school administrations and teachers who are intervening with struggling students. Besides her work in schools, she leads workshops for parents on developing parental skills and gives conferences to parents on preparing for preschool and handling stress.

Our board

Board of Directors

André Rémillard

Chairman of the Board

France Capuano

Vice-president

France Capuano, PhD, is a full professor with the Département d’éducation et formation spécialisées of the Université du Québec à Montréal’s Faculté des sciences de l’éducation. She holds an undergraduate and a graduate degree in psychoeducation and she holds a doctorate in psychology from the Université de Montréal. She also holds the Robert Sheitoyan Chair in violence and delinquency prevention.

Her research mainly focuses on the prevention of behavioural problems in preschool-aged children. She has created and evaluated several prevention programs such as the Fluppy program, which has been implemented in the kindergartens of several regions of Quebec since 1990. For the last 30 years, she has worked closely with child care workers, school staff and health and social services workers to implement and evaluate promising practices for children with behavioural problems. She has extensive experience training and advising this personnel.

Jean-Daniel Côté

Treasurer

Michel Boivin

Administrator

Richard E. Tremblay

Administrator

Nicole Gervais

Administrator

 

Isabelle Vinet

Administrator

Isabelle holds a master’s degree in psychoeducation from the Université de Montréal with a main focus on the prevention of violence. Over the last 25 years, she has focused her professional activities on knowledge transfer on the optimal development of young children. Notably, she has helped develop and implement promising violence and school dropout prevention programs: Fluppy and Brindami. In turn a trainer and a training manager for CPEQ, she then took on the role of CEO in 2012. As such, she also coordinates the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, the organization that produces the Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development (www.child-encyclopedia.com), a unique and international online reference tool that compiles the most up-to-date knowledge in the world on the development of young children and practices in this field. The Encyclopedia is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.

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