New shelter for abandoned kids.The Centre jeunesse de la Monteregie, an organization offering specialized services for youth, has opened La Maison L'Escargot, the 'Snail House', in Longeuil. It is the first resource for lodging, treatment and specialized services for children in abandonment situations and presenting severe attachment disorder at·tach·ment disorder n. A behavioral disorder caused by the lack of an emotionally secure attachment to a caregiver in the first two years of life, characterized by an inability to form healthy relationships. in the Monteregie region of Quebec. The children will receive personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. treatment to help them build up their affective affective /af·fec·tive/ (ah-fek´tiv) pertaining to affect. af·fec·tive adj. 1. Concerned with or arousing feelings or emotions; emotional. 2. security so that they can be placed in an adoptive a·dop·tive adj. 1. a. Of or having to do with adoption. b. Characteristic of adoption. 2. Related by adoption: or foster family. Maison L'Escargot will also be associated with specialists from the Ste-Justine Hospital and researchers from the Institut universitaire du Centre jeunesse de Montreal. The project is jointly run with Sainte-Justine Hospital and Centre jeunesse de Montreal--Institut Universitaire. 450-928-5125 |
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