Housing & Accommodation Needs for Autistic Adults: Results and Projects

Needs, Expectations, and Preferences of Autistic Adults for Housing and Living Accommodation in Quebec

Invitation to our event to present our results, and the next steps of our projects

Thursday the 16th of February 2023, 5 to 7 pm

Hybrid formula: in person at Concordia University, and virtually on the Zoom platform

It is our honor to invite you to the presentation of the results of our Survey on the Housing Needs of Autistic Adults in Québec.

We wish to bring together autistic people and their families as well as actors of the non profit, philanthropic, research, and health sector communities to tell you about our results and speak about our short video testimonial project.

The project

In December 2020, the Transforming Autism Care Consortium Network (TACC) and the Autism House organized a roundtable named Towards a better quality of life for the autistic adult community: Housing needs and services. After this event, the Autism House as well as researchers Baudouin Forgeot d’Arc (M.D., Ph. D.) and Isabelle Courcy (Ph. D.) joined forces to create a community-research partnership.

The project born from this alliance aimed to document the needs, expectations, and preferences of autistic adults in Quebec in regard to housing and living accommodations.

Along 2022, this Survey has been shared by over 150 organizations and filled out by over 400 people throughout Quebec.

And now?

Afterwards, with support from the TACC network through the Partners for Change program, a committee with parity between autistic people and non autistic people was created. This committee created the concept of a short video testimonial project wishing to give a voice to autistic adults wishing to communicate their needs or aspirations towards housing or living accommodations.

By joining these testimonials to research data, we wish that the realities, needs, and aspirations of autistic adults from Quebec be largely known. This in the goal of raising awareness to the public, but also to the multitude of actors implicated in housing and accommodation solutions

Important information

This event will be hold at District 3 in Concordia University, situated on 1250 Guy street, office 600, Montreal (Quebec) H3H 2L3

Food and non alcoholic drinks will be offered on arrival.

This event will not be fully bilingual, please check the agenda to see which sections will have English translations or not.

The event will start with a word of welcome, followed by presentations of the survey results and of the short video testimonial project. The Autism House will then announce the next steps of their housing project.

This will be followed by an open-mic moment (not accessible virtually) for present autistic adults to talk about the questions of housing and accommodations, by sharing their personal situations, their aspirations, and their dreams.

The event will conclude, for those who wish, with some informal networking.

The agenda of the event will be as such:

5 pm: Welcome and Introductions (Bilingual)

5:05 pm: Results presentation (French only)

5:50 pm: Presenting our next steps (Bilingual)

6:05 pm: Autism House’s project (Bilingual)

6:20 pm: Guided Open Mic (Bilingual)

6:50 pm: Networking and Catering (Bilingual)

It will be possible to be in person, or to follow the event on Zoom.

It will be a privilege to count on your presence for this event.

If you know other partners, if the autism community or not, that could be interested in participating, thank you for sending us their coordinates, or sharing the link so they can sign up.

Host or Publisher La Maison de l'autisme / The Autism House