We would like hospitalized patients, their loved ones, and hospital staff to have the opportunity to benefit from free services intended to alleviate stress associated with hospitalization, thus favouring healing and rehabilitation, or an easier acceptance of the inevitable.

	We work closely with medical staff, following their recommendations, while keeping a log of all our visits and communicating our observations.
	To ensure the quality of our services, we are bound by a professional code of ethics.
	In general, we emphasize an atmosphere of tenderness, imagination and fun in hospital environments. The clowns believe that they inspire those qualities, as opposed to being the sole source of them.  We work towards ensuring that the atmosphere lasts even after we have left.
	Disguised as happy and smiley doctors, a pair of therapeutic clowns spends two days a week visiting a minimum of 30 children, 96 times a year, and an average of 25 adult or elderly patients once a week, 48 times a year. We currently have a team of 10 clowns, and expect to introduce more as necessary. Some of the organizations upon which we have modeled ourselves currently employ 40 or more artists, some of whom have been employed in that capacity for up to 15 years.
	We aim for our administrative costs to be the lowest possible and are committed to being fully transparent.  For additional information, click here.
	We are a bilingual organization, and the universal appeal of clowns allows us to offer our services to different ethnic groups. This encourages us to employ individuals in Quebec from various ethnic backgrounds.
	It is our responsibility to provide on-going training to ensure the quality of our services on a long-term basis. This allows us to offer contracts to various artistic trainers. We hope to be able to open these training sessions to other therapeutic artists and Quebec, Canadian, or even international organizations, as well as to health-care workers.
	Our intent is to expose our work to the general public through the use of a website which includes various sources of documentation pertaining to the practice of therapeutic arts, and by means of a series of school activities designed to reach students from primary up to university levels of education.
	“In recognition of [our] outstanding program contribution to persons with Alzheimer disease and their caregivers,” we were presented with the first prize from the Alzheimer Society of Montreal, awarded in the context of the 2003 edition of their “Forget-Me-Not” program.

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