History
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montréal (CRIR) began its activities in April 2000. CRIR is funded and recognized by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé and the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture.
A multi-CISSS/CIUSSS and multi-university centre
The organisation of CRIR is multi-CISSS/CIUSSS (Centres intégrés de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) and the Centres intégrés universitaires de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS)) and multi-university (McGill University, Université de Montréal and UQAM). It boasts an interdisciplinary approach to scientific planning, and transdisciplinary and intersectoral research across the biomedical and psychosocial fields, for people of all ages and encompassing all physical disabilities (motor, auditory, visual, language and communication). In addition, since July 2015, CRIR has been the research centre for the Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM) and its partners.
CRIR is operated by the Comité de gouvernance du CRIR (CGC), which is an association of four administrator CISSS/CIUSSS. Among the facilities grouped in the various CISSS/CIUSSS, four offer services to people living with a motor impairment:
- Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital of the CISSS de Laval
- Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM) of the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal (CCSMTL)
- Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre of CIUSSS West-Central Montreal
- The Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille of the CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre serves clientele with visual impairments and the IURDPM – Raymond-Dewar of the CCSMTL serves clientele with auditory impairments. All facilities, with the exception of the Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille, also offer services in the area of speech and language.
CRIR also has two other CISSS partners: the CISSS des Laurentides and the CISSS de Lanaudière, which now include the Centre de réadaptation en déficience physique (CRDP). These two CISSS serve the four types of clients living with a physical impairment (motor, auditory, visual, and speech and language) and people of all ages.
