Please Note: Services may be impacted in response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
Please contact any service prior to visiting in person to receive up to date information on changes to their availability (e.g. hours of operation etc.)
Please contact any service prior to visiting in person to receive up to date information on changes to their availability (e.g. hours of operation etc.)
- Description
- Offers a healing program for residential school survivors or their descendants and extended families in a wilderness setting near Wawakapewin community
- Offers counselling and teaches traditional values and lifestyles as healing tools
- Targets individuals affected by residential school abuse and its intergenerational impacts
- Delivers services through a holistic approach
- Provides 4 intakes per year
- Provides services in a wilderness setting for individual families, groups and communities
- Counselling by Elders and/or traditional healers
- Cultural ceremonies, teachings and dialogue
- Transportation, when required
- Eligibility
- On-reserve member of communities belonging to Shibogama First Nations Tribal Council and
- Is a former student of an Indian Residential School (IRS) listed in the 2006 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement or
- Is a family member (spouse or partner, those raised by or raised in the household of a former IRS student, and any relation who has experienced effects of intergenerational trauma associated with a family member's time at an IRS) of a former student
- On-reserve member of communities belonging to Shibogama First Nations Tribal Council and
- Application Process
- Referrals accepted from Resource workers in Shibogama communities or from Regional Service Delivery organizations
- Intake assessment required
- Office
- 807-623-3916 - Thunder Bay Sub-Office
- Sioux Lookout Band Office
- 807-737-2662
- Fax
- 807-737-4226
- Web Site
- http://www.wawakapewin.ca/
- info@wawakapewin.ca
- Mailing Address
- PO Box 477
c/o Healing Program
Sioux Lookout, ON, P8T 1A8
Canada - Languages
- English
- Contact
- Janina Meekis-Hoxha, Band Administrator
Email: janinam@wawakapewin.ca
Phone: 807-738-2922 - Fees
- None
- Documents Required
- Completed intake assessment required
- Accessibility
- Not Accessible
- Topic(s)
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- Agency Information
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- Copyright
- 211 Ontario North
- Last Verified On
- February 24, 2022
- Address
- 207 Archibald St N, Shibogama Sub Office
Thunder Bay, ON, P7C 3X9- Shibogama Sub-Office is located at Archibald St N in Thunder Bay near the Courthouse
- Closest intersection is at Archibald St N and Miles St E
Open in Google Maps - Hours of Operation
- Mon0900 to 1700Tue0900 to 1700Wed0900 to 1700Thu0900 to 1700Fri0900 to 1700
Office: Mon-Fri 9 am-12 noon, 1 pm-5 pm
Program session dates vary; contact Project Coordinator - Service Area(s)
- Kasabonika Lake First Nation
- Kingfisher Lake First Nation
- Wapekeka First Nation
- Wawakapewin First Nation
- Wunnumin Lake First Nation