Le Havre

What Le Havre does

Groupe d'entraide Le Havre (operating as Le Havre) is a nonprofit community organization headquartered at 327 rue Labbé, Thetford Mines, Quebec, in the MRC des Appalaches region. Its mission is to improve quality of life for individuals living with mental health problems in that territory by breaking isolation, stimulating mutual aid, and supporting social and professional reintegration. The organization delivers services free of charge to its users and members.

The service portfolio comprises six interconnected offerings delivered directly to participants at their own pace: educational, social, sports, and manual activities (including bingo, self-esteem workshops, canvas painting, collective cooking, and self-management workshops); referral and accompaniment to public services such as housing, legal aid, employment, and health and social services; documentation assistance for government forms; volunteer-driven transportation to out-of-region healthcare facilities (with at least one week's notice required); individual meetings and telephone listening based on counselor availability; and the social-professional integration support service (SSIS) covering needs assessment, job search support, integration follow-up, individual interventions, and self-management workshops. There is no proprietary technology platform, no mobile application, and no AI component; service delivery is human-centered, in-person, and volunteer-supported.

The business model is that of a small grassroots non-profit: services are free, there is no disclosed pricing or revenue, no enterprise customers, and no headcount is reported. Revenue, to the extent it exists, is presumably derived from community grants (with disclosed historical Bell Let's Talk funding in 2016 and 2018), donations, and likely provincial/regional health and social services funding, though none of these are quantified in the source material. Distribution is exclusively direct, in-region, via a single physical office plus a Facebook presence ("L'organisme Le Havre") that functions as the only disclosed marketing and awareness channel. The organization's competitive positioning rests on community-rooted values (solidarity, mutual aid, confidentiality, open-mindedness, inclusion) and on the non-judgmental, peer-led character of its interventions rather than on any technology or scale advantage.

Name

Le Havre

Legal name

Groupe d'entraide Le Havre

Website

https://entraidelehavre.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Le Havre is a nonprofit community organization in Thetford Mines, Quebec, that provides free peer-based mental health support services, including activities, referral accompaniment, documentation help, transportation, telephone listening, and social-professional integration, to individuals living with mental health challenges in the MRC des Appalaches region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mental Health Support Services

NAICS

Social Assistance (624), Other Individual and Family Services (62419)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Mental Health & Crisis Support Services (BPAGACAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Health & Health Equity Organizations (BPAGACAL)

Keywords

• Mental health support
• Peer support services
• Community mental health
• Social integration services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation

Headquarters

HQ city

Thetford Mines

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Le Havre is a nonprofit community organization that provides free mental-health support services to people living with mental health problems in the MRC des Appalaches region of Quebec. Its offering is centered on mutual aid and includes group activities (educational, social, sports, manual), referral and accompaniment assistance, documentation help, volunteer-based medical transportation, individual meetings and telephone listening, and a Social-Professional Integration Support Service (SSIS) covering needs assessment, job search support, and integration follow-up.

Product overview

Le Havre is a mental health support organization providing community-based services to individuals living with mental health challenges in the MRC des Appalaches region. The organization offers a single unified service model centered on mutual aid, with six interconnected support services: activities (educational, social, sports, and manual), referral and accompaniment assistance, documentation help, transportation for medical appointments, individual meetings and telephone listening, and social-professional integration support services (SSIS). Services are delivered at the client's pace with non-judgmental support to break isolation, stimulate mutual aid, develop skills, and promote social and professional reintegration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Activités (Activities) Diverse educational, social, sports, and manual activities such as bingo, self-esteem workshops, canvas painting, collective cooking, and self-management workshops, offered to people with mental health challenges in the MRC des Appalaches.
• Aide référence et accompagnement (Referral and Accompaniment Assistance) Assistance and accompaniment to help users and members access external services such as housing board, consumer protection office, legal aid, employment centre, and health and social services within the Appalaches territory.
• Aide à la documentation (Documentation Assistance) Help completing government or other documents such as housing allowance, taxes, and income security forms, provided by appointment to registered users and members.
• Transports (Medical Transportation) Volunteer-based transportation for users to external healthcare facilities outside the region, with requests required at least one week in advance.
• Rencontres individuelles et écoute téléphonique (Individual Meetings and Telephone Listening) One-on-one meetings and telephone-based listening support for registered users and members, available with or without appointments depending on counselor availability.
• Services de soutien à l'intégration socioprofessionnelle (SSIS) - Social-Professional Integration Support Services Social-professional integration support including needs assessment, information and referral, job search support, integration follow-up, individual interventions, and self-management workshops, aimed at helping members achieve social and professional reintegration.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Regional players

• Pacte Bois-Francs: Quebec community organization supporting mental health and psychosocial reintegration in the Centre-du-Québec region. Comparable as a small regional Quebec nonprofit delivering mutual aid, activities, and integration support to people living with mental health challenges.
• Centre de prévention du suicide de Québec: Regional Quebec organization providing suicide prevention hotlines, intervention, and postvention services. Comparable as a regional peer offering crisis and mental health support to a defined Quebec catchment area similar in scale to MRC des Appalaches.

Direct peers

• AMI-Québec (Action on Mental Illness): Quebec mental health mutual-aid organization supporting individuals and families living with mental illness through peer support, education, and community programs — overlapping directly with Le Havre's peer-support and accompaniment mandate.
• Revivre: Quebec-based mental health mutual-aid organization running peer support groups and recovery programs across the province. Directly comparable to Le Havre in mission, mutual-aid operating model, and Quebec mental health nonprofit structure.

Broad incumbents

• Canadian Mental Health Association – Quebec: National mental health umbrella organization with a Quebec division providing broad community-based mental health programming, advocacy, and resources. Comparable as a larger, established incumbent operating in the same Quebec mental health support space.

Emerging players

• Association québécoise de prévention du suicide (AQPS): Quebec association coordinating suicide prevention, intervention training, and postvention services. Comparable as a Quebec nonprofit addressing the adjacent crisis-support dimension of mental health that Le Havre also touches through its crisis listening services.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/lorganismelehavre

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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