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Located near Cochrane
Distance: 100km
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Healing and Wellness Program
Cochrane
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705-272-4497 Ext 228
190 Third Ave
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Short Description
- Provides information to raise awareness of family violence and strategies to stop it
- Facilitates group talking circles to promote inner healing of family members
- Offers individual peer counselling
- Provides advocacy between individual and agencies
- Provides referrals to needed community supports and services
- Offers education about healthy and unhealthy relationships
- Hosts traditional gatherings including traditional teachings and feasts
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Traditional Healing Program
Timmins (69km)
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130 Wilson Ave
Timmins, ON, P4N 2S9
Timmins, ON, P4N 2S9
Short Description
- Offers traditional healing methods for individuals, families and communities through Traditional Healers, Elders and Medicine People
- Provides cultural programs to individuals on probation in the justice system
- Aboriginal Orientation (10 justice circle sessions)
- Ceremonies such as Fasting Camps, Naming and Colours
- Individual counselling
- Medicine-making workshops
- Sweat lodges
- Turning Full Circle (13 justice circle sessions)
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National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program
Wahgoshig First Nation (96km)
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360 Penatuche Rd
Wahgoshig First Nation, ON, P0K 1N0
Wahgoshig First Nation, ON, P0K 1N0
Short Description
Provides services and support for individuals and families struggling with addiction issues
- Offers Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings when required
- Provides transportation to all meetings and workshops upon request
- Provides public seminars/meetings to raise community awareness of alcohol, drug abuse and gambling addictions
- Coordinates cultural and spiritual events
- Facilitates recreational activities and social events
- Provides individual and group discussions
- Offers cultural and spiritual gatherings
- Counselling, sharing circles and support groups
- Regular phone calls and home visits
- Referrals to band services, social services, detoxification and treatment centres and medical assistance
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Indigenous Mental Health Services
Black River-Matheson (71km)
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507 8th Ave
Black River-Matheson, ON, P0K 1N0
Black River-Matheson, ON, P0K 1N0
Short Description
- Offers counselling and support services for Indigenous individuals with mental health issues
- Integrates contemporary intervention with a holistic traditional healing approach that promotes spiritual, emotional, mental and physical wellbeing
- Advocacy
- Assessment and supportive counselling
- Referrals to other community agencies including cultural, traditional resources
- Help in navigating the health care system
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Timmins Métis Council - Community Wellness Worker Program
Timmins (70km)
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347 Spruce St S
Timmins, ON, P4N 2N2
Timmins, ON, P4N 2N2
Short Description
Operates as a program under the Healing and Wellness Branch
- Promotes healthy lifestyles through culturally based programs and healing
- Aims to reduce family violence
- Sharing of appropriate information with related health and social agencies and providing referrals
- Crisis intervention education and workshops
- Illness prevention and wellness planning, information and education
- Traditional sharing circles
- Community outreach education to promote cultural awareness
- Assistance with completing forms of any kind
- Accessing existing programs and services
- Peer counselling for any identified concerns
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Health Services, Wabun Youth Gathering
Timmins (70km)
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313 Railway St
Timmins, ON, P4N 2P4
Timmins, ON, P4N 2P4
Short Description
Organizes an annual event that addresses the health and wellness of Wabun youth
- Provides programs and services for junior and senior youth over a two-week event
- Focus is assisting youth to connect/reconnect with their traditional Native culture
- Provides an opportunity for youth to become acquainted with other youth in Wabun First Nation communities
- Offers many of the programs and services with the assistance and guidance of Wabun elders
- Drumming circles
- Traditional teachings
- Sessions and workshops in areas such as drug and alcohol issues, suicide and social youth issues, and life skills
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Indigenous Community Mental Health Program
Timmins (70km)
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179 Kirby Ave
Timmins, ON, P4N 1K1
Timmins, ON, P4N 1K1
Short Description
- Works to end stigma regarding mental health and addictions
- Strives to raise awareness of mental health and addictions issues
- Provides cultural events and other activities for community members free of substances or gambling
- Community lunches
- Kiizhaay (I Am a Kind Man)
- Sacred fires
- Sharing circles
- Street outreach
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Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy Program
Timmins (70km)
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179 Kirby Ave
Timmins, ON, P4N 1K1
Timmins, ON, P4N 1K1
Short Description
- Promotes growth and healthy living for Indigenous people through culturally appropriate services
- Works to reduce family violence and promotes healthy lifestyles
- Advocacy
- Family violence workshops
- Grief counselling
- Peer counselling
- Referrals
- Substance abuse counselling
- Referrals
- Ceremonies
- Feasts
- Language
- Talking circles
- Teachings
- Support groups
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Circles of Care
Timmins (69km)
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145 Wilson Ave
Timmins, ON, P4N 2T2
Timmins, ON, P4N 2T2
Short Description
- Provides support services to Indigenous women and their families who are experiencing violence and are involved in the child welfare system
- Works to meet the needs of women involved with both the Child Welfare Systems (CAS) and Violence Against Women Sectors (VAW)
- Advocacy support
- Crisis management
- Cultural and traditional supports such as holistic teachings, sharing circles, ceremonies and guidance from Elders
- Information and education provision for mothers on their rights and responsibilities
- Systems navigation
- Work with families and Children's Aid Society (CAS) to resolve conflict
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Indigenous Mental Health Services
Iroquois Falls (41km)
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58A Anson Dr, Family Health Team Building
Iroquois Falls, ON, P0K 1G0
Iroquois Falls, ON, P0K 1G0
Short Description
- Offers counselling and support services for Indigenous individuals with mental health issues
- Integrates contemporary intervention with a holistic traditional healing approach that promotes spiritual, emotional, mental and physical wellbeing
- Advocacy
- Assessment and supportive counselling
- Referrals to other community agencies including cultural, traditional resources
- Help in navigating the health care system
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Health Outreach Program
Cochrane
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190 Third Ave
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Short Description
- Assists Indigenous individuals and families to access traditional healers and midwives as well as mainstream health providers
- Acts as a liaison for individuals and families requiring support
- Promotes healthy lifestyles through home visits, circles, workshops and public education
- Develops and obtains Indigenous health promotion materials
- Promotes traditional culture-based family healing
- Provides referrals to appropriate health programs and services
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Family Well Being Program
Taykwa Tagamou Nation
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Lot 3, Concession 3, Brower Township
Taykwa Tagamou Nation, ON, P0L 1C0
Taykwa Tagamou Nation, ON, P0L 1C0
Short Description
Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) initiative to assist each Indigenous community to design and deliver their own holistic, prevention-focused services/programs and cultural supports to promote a healthy community and support families as needed in the community
- Focus is on improving the overall health and well-being of communities and to empower families to build healthy relationships
- Works to eliminate family violence, the number of youth involved in the justice system and the number of children in care
- Activities that revitalize Native language
- Alcohol and drug abuse prevention and intervention
- Community events such as feasts
- Family circles, counselling and child/youth support groups
- Referrals to other programs and services
- School programs
- Traditional land-based healing events
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Child and Family Services
Taykwa Tagamou Nation
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Lot 3, Concession 3, Brower Township
Taykwa Tagamou Nation, ON, P0L 1C0
Taykwa Tagamou Nation, ON, P0L 1C0
Short Description
- Delivers child care and protection services and family support services to community members
- Administers services as a satellite office for Kunuwanimano Child and Family Services
- Provides one-on-one counselling in areas such as bullying
- Educates children, families and community about rights and responsibilities under the Child and Family Services Act
- Advocates on behalf of clients and their rights in regards to the legal system
- Offers a variety of parenting programs
- Teaches parenting skills and assisting children through difficult times
- Develops and administers healthy social and recreational programs for families
- Hosts community forums to address issues such as youth drug abuse, inadequate housing, schooling problems and after school activities
- Organizes traditional healing circles with elders for women and youth
- Provides information sessions about understanding substance dependency and resulting family violence, and overcoming oppression by understanding cultural realities
- Provides referral services to local and outside service providers including treatment and healing centres
- Provides assistance with voluntary/customary care placements
- Provides support and counselling services to children in care
- Provides consultation and advertising in areas relating to customary care and foster care procedures
- Provides preventative services including awareness on child welfare matters including roles and responsibilities of the customary care/foster care worker
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National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program
Taykwa Tagamou Nation
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Lot 3, Concession 3, Brower Township
Taykwa Tagamou Nation, ON, P0L 1C0
Taykwa Tagamou Nation, ON, P0L 1C0
Short Description
Provides services and support for individuals and families struggling with addiction issues
- Offers Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings when required
- Provides transportation to all meetings and workshops upon request
- Provides public seminars/meetings to raise community awareness of alcohol, drug abuse and gambling addictions
- Holds educational sessions in schools
- Coordinates cultural and spiritual events
- Facilitates recreational activities and social events
- Provides individual and group discussions
- Offers cultural and spiritual gatherings
- Counselling, sharing circles and support groups
- Regular phone calls and home visits
- Referrals to band services, social services, detoxification and treatment centres and medical assistance
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Indigenous Mental Health Services
Cochrane
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233 8th St, Centre de Santé Minto Health Centre
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Short Description
- Offers counselling and support services for Indigenous individuals with mental health issues
- Integrates contemporary intervention with a holistic traditional healing approach that promotes spiritual, emotional, mental and physical wellbeing
- Advocacy
- Assessment and supportive counselling
- Referrals to other community agencies including cultural, traditional resources
- Help in navigating the health care system
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Community Wellness Program
Cochrane
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173 Railway St
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Short Description
Develops, provides, facilitates and/or coordinates a variety of community and culturally based programs geared to the prevention of individual abuse and family violence, including the following:
- Violence awareness and prevention education
- Programming for women survivors of abuse or violence
- Individual support, case management, advocacy
- Access to traditional healing practices/resources
- Coordination of a variety of workshops including but not limited to cooking, bannock making, health and nutrition, sewing, painting and self-defense techniques
- Referrals to required services such as police services, counselling, social and mental health services
- Opportunities to participate in community education campaigns and activities in local settings (such as schools) or at local community events such as powwows and health fairs
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Cultural Resource Program
Cochrane
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190 Third Ave
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Short Description
- Ensures traditional cultural knowledge and support are available for Friendship Centre community members
- Promotes and coordinates traditional teachings and ceremonies
- Coordinates access to Elders and Traditional people as needed
- Traditional Native healers
- Healing circles
- Talking/sharing circles
- Sweat lodges
- Smudging ceremonies
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Community Mental Health & Addiction Wellness Program
Cochrane
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190 Third Ave
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Short Description
- Provides a holistic approach in meeting the needs of urban Aboriginal people with addictions and mental health issues
- Promotes addictions-free lifestyles and positive mental health through assessments, individualized counselling, planning, and evaluation of services provided to the recipient
- Provides advocacy on the client's behalf as needed
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Children's Mental Health Program
Cochrane
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190 Third Ave
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Cochrane, ON, P0L 1C0
Short Description
- Provides a holistic approach in meeting the needs of Indigenous children with mental health issues
- Identifies and assesses children in need of healing and wellness services
- Intervenes in crisis situation and provides follow-up and support
- Promotes addictions-free lifestyles and positive mental health through individual counselling, self-help programs, alternative activities programming and aftercare
- Offers traditional ceremonies and healing
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Family Well Being Program
Wahgoshig First Nation (96km)
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360 Penatuche Rd
Wahgoshig First Nation, ON, P0K 1N0
Wahgoshig First Nation, ON, P0K 1N0
Short Description
Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) initiative to assist each Indigenous community to design and deliver their own holistic, prevention-focused services/programs and cultural supports to promote a healthy community and support families as needed in the community
- Focus is on improving the overall health and well-being of communities and to empower families to build healthy relationships
- Works to eliminate family violence, the number of youth involved in the justice system and the number of children in care
- Activities that revitalize Native language
- Alcohol and drug abuse prevention and intervention
- Community events such as feasts
- Family circles, counselling and child/youth support groups
- Referrals to other programs and services
- School programs
- Traditional land-based healing events
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