Searching for Traditional Indigenous Healing And Wellness

• 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

Programs and services can include:

• 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)

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

Prevention

• Provides public seminars/meetings to raise community awareness of alcohol, drug abuse and gambling addictions
• Coordinates cultural and spiritual events

Intervention

• Facilitates recreational activities and social events
• Provides individual and group discussions
• Offers cultural and spiritual gatherings

Aftercare provided for preventing reoccurrence:

• 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

• 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

Offers assistance through the following services:

• Advocacy
• Assessment and supportive counselling
• Referrals to other community agencies including cultural, traditional resources
• Help in navigating the health care system

Operates as a program under the Healing and Wellness Branch

• Promotes healthy lifestyles through culturally based programs and healing
• Aims to reduce family violence

Provides assistance for individuals to identify areas of concern and to develop action plans to address concerns through the following:

• 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

Also provides:

• Assistance with completing forms of any kind
• Accessing existing programs and services
• Peer counselling for any identified concerns

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

Activities and events can include:

• Drumming circles
• Traditional teachings
• Sessions and workshops in areas such as drug and alcohol issues, suicide and social youth issues, and life skills

• 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

Events can include:

• Community lunches
• Kiizhaay (I Am a Kind Man)
• Sacred fires
• Sharing circles
• Street outreach

• Promotes growth and healthy living for Indigenous people through culturally appropriate services
• Works to reduce family violence and promotes healthy lifestyles

Services offered include:

• Advocacy
• Family violence workshops
• Grief counselling
• Peer counselling
• Referrals
• Substance abuse counselling
• Referrals

Traditional services include:

• Ceremonies
• Feasts
• Language
• Talking circles
• Teachings
• Support groups

• 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)

Aims to create a safe and supportive means of living through collaboration with other community services and the provision of culturally based services including:

• 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

• 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

Offers assistance through the following services:

• Advocacy
• Assessment and supportive counselling
• Referrals to other community agencies including cultural, traditional resources
• Help in navigating the health care system

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 and programs provided can include but are not limited to the following:

• 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

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

Prevention

• 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

Intervention

• Facilitates recreational activities and social events
• Provides individual and group discussions
• Offers cultural and spiritual gatherings

Aftercare provided for preventing reoccurrence:

• 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

• 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

Offers assistance through the following services:

• Advocacy
• Assessment and supportive counselling
• Referrals to other community agencies including cultural, traditional resources
• Help in navigating the health care system

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

• 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

Healing alternatives and traditional ceremonies can include but are not limited to:

• Traditional Native healers
• Healing circles
• Talking/sharing circles
• Sweat lodges
• Smudging ceremonies

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 and programs provided can include but are not limited to the following:

• 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