A passionate, skilled team dedicated to children.

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.

Jeanne holds a master’s degree in psychoeducation from the Université de Sherbrooke and is a member of the Ordre des Psychoéducateurs et Psychoéducatrices du Québec (OPPQ). Her academic career is punctuated by several honorary mentions. She diversifies her field of practice, between university and professional teaching, the media and clinical work. She approaches her various projects with scientific rigor, always with the aim of promoting connection between individuals.

Alain Desrochers was a full professor at the University of Ottawa until July 2017. He then served as the Scientific Director of the Institut des troubles d’apprentissage in Montreal until January 2019. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa and an associate professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His professional expertise focuses on the following aspects of literacy learning: learning models, teaching models, the development and assessment of literacy skills and resource management models aimed at preventing learning difficulties.

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.

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.

Geneviève holds a bachelor’s degree in psychoeducation from the Université de Montréal. She has extensive experience spanning over 20 years in providing intervention services to children and their families in school, community, and health and social services network contexts. Geneviève has worked with families in crisis and at high risk of breakdown, as well as in psychosocial interventions addressing diverse issues such as attention deficit disorder, anxiety and opposition, family discipline, and violence prevention through the implementation of social skills training programs.

Geneviève has also facilitated several parental skills groups, including one for parents of children diagnosed with ADHD. Since 2021, she has served as the coordinator of a school promotion and prevention team within the Public Health Directorate of Laval. Geneviève has been a trainer at Abilio since 2022.

Since a young age, Maria Lucia has been passionate about the world of education. Her curiosity and enthusiasm led her to the field of early childhood, where she gained rich experience as an educator working with children aged 0–5 years. In her daily life, she interacts with various clienteles, including children with ASD, ADHD, behavioral disorders, and language disorders. Currently, Maria Lucia is a pedagogical advisor and supports different early childhood professionals in their educational approaches. In parallel, she is completing her bachelor’s degree in education at UQAM and holds a certificate in pedagogical support for early childhood educational services.

With over 10 years of experience working with families, Paula embraces a comprehensive and holistic view of individuals facing adaptive challenges. She guides parents in the developmental support of their children aged 0 to 8 years. Her approach is based on fundamental needs, emotion regulation, attachment, and parenting styles. She invites you to reconnect with basic needs, emphasizing kindness and curiosity.

Paula’s professional experience as a psychoeducator has enabled her to work with diverse clienteles of varying ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. In fact, she has practiced psychoeducation with youth experiencing severe behavioral issues, learning difficulties, attachment disorders, developmental delays, autism spectrum disorder, and more. Additionally, she has had the opportunity to explore various settings such as hospitals, schools, and community organizations.

Chairman of the Board

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.

Treasurer

Administrator

Administrator

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.

Administrator

Isabelle Ouellet-Morin is a professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Criminology. She holds the Canada Research Chair on the Developmental Origins of Vulnerability and Resilience, and is a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. Researcher at the Research Centre of the Montreal Mental Health University Institute and at the GRIP, she examines the biological, cognitive, emotional, and environmental mechanisms underlying the vulnerability and resilience of youth facing adversity, which may lead to mental health and behavioral issues. She is the scientific co-director of the Centre d’expertise en technologie de l’information en santé mentale, dépendance et itinérance (CETI-SMDI) and leads the Social Innovation division of the Observatory for Child Education and Health (OPES), where she supports the implementation of (techno)social innovations aimed at fostering optimal development and mental health. She is delighted to join the Board of Directors of Abilio.