Administers programs and services to improve the quality of life for urban Indigenous people with a focus on social, educational and cultural development

• Provides a meeting place for urban Aboriginal people and community members regardless of nationality
  
• Hosts cultural events

Provides the following programs:

• Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Program
  
• Indigenous Family Support Program
  
• Indigenous Healing and Wellness Program
  
• Indigenous Healing and Wellness Program, Crisis Intervention
  
• Indigenous Healthy Babies, Healthy Children
  
• Indigenous Prenatal Nutrition Program
  
• Akwe:go Program
  
• Alternative Education Program
  
• Apatisiwin Employment Services
  
• Children's Mental Health Program
  
• Food Bank
  
• Homeless Outreach Program
  
• Life Long Care Program
  
• Native Combined Courtwork Program
  
• Urban Indigenous Healthy Living Program
  
• Urban Indigenous Healthy Living Program for kids
  
• Wasa Nabin Program
  
• Wiinisidotam Adult Literacy Program
  
• Youth Justice Program
  
• Zaagi idiwin Aboriginal Head Start Program

• Provides information on family violence, strategies to stop it and healthy relationships
  
• Facilitates group talking circles
  
• Offers individual peer counselling
  
• Provides referrals to needed community and regional supports and services
  
• Provides education and information about health and wellness issues

Justice Worker

• Offers culturally appropriate supports to help Indigenous people deal with the criminal justice system
  
• Coordinates the justice system within the community

Addresses child and youth mental health and addiction issues by promoting healthy lifestyles and healthy alternatives

• Offers services and programs in an effort to decrease youth involvement in gang activity, violence and drug and alcohol abuse
  
• Provides culturally based supports to reduce family violence
  
• Provides individual and family referrals to other service providers

Services and programs offered:

• Indigenous programs such as Kiizhay Anishinaabe (I Am a Kind Man)
  
• Community and cultural events
  
• Fitness and recreational activities
  
• Traditional healing circles
  
• Peer counselling
  
• Public education on alcohol and drug abuse, gang activity and violence

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 Services
Provides the following services aimed at preventing alcohol and drug abuse problems from reoccurring:

• 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 community based family counselling for children, teens, men, women and families as a group
  
• Provides assessments and case management services
  
• Provides services of traditional healers
  
• Offers community workshops to raise awareness of issues affecting families including substance abuse and family violence
  
• Supports community initiatives that promote family healing such as traditional gatherings

Also offers the following family support services including but not limited to:

• Advocacy and referral to external agencies
  
• Assistance in the planning of child's and family's needs
  
• Emergency financial assistance for basic needs only in cases where the welfare of child/children is at-risk
  
• Home visitation arrangements and supervision to enable parents to visit with their children living in alternative care

• Offers wholistic supports and services for families who have been affected by issues related to unresolved trauma
• Provides healthy coping and stabilization techniques, psycho-education and a therapeutic environment to assist families in the healing process
• Promotes Anishinaabe culture, ceremony and land-based teachings
• Collaborates with other First Nation service providers for program delivery

Program is offered in three phases:

• Pre-treatment/orientation including intake
• Treatment, provided through a 15-day outpatient program
• Post-discharge/aftercare services up to six months

• 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

• Offers community based family counselling for children, teens, men, women and families as a group
  
• Provides assessments and case management services
  
• Provides services of traditional healers
  
• Offers community workshops to raise awareness of issues affecting families including substance abuse and family violence
  
• Supports community initiatives that promote family healing such as traditional gatherings

Also offers the following family support services including but not limited to:

• Advocacy and referral to external agencies
  
• Assistance in the planning of child's and family's needs
  
• Emergency financial assistance for basic needs only in cases where the welfare of child/children is at-risk
  
• Home visitation arrangements and supervison to enable parents to visit with their children living in alternative care

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

• Organizes adequate training and skills development opportunities for member communities
• Collaborates with other departments to ensure that capacity development and strengthening governance activities are relevant and current
• Provides training for individual programs such as development of policies and procedures
• Provides advisory services for Human Resource management personnel in member communities
• Provides assistance to the Finance Department

Workshops and training is provided in areas including but not limited to:

• Aboriginal Taxation
• Analyzing financial statements
• Board of Directors responsibilities
• Canadian Human Rights
• CMHC Builders Workshop
• Developing wills and estates
• Investment education
• Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Power Point
• Running Effective Meeting

• Serves as a non-political Chiefs Council which provides support and advisory services to seven First Nation communities
• Provides technical and professional advisory services and training to enhance the overall management skills and opportunities of the area First Nations in their quest to become self-sufficient
• Consists of Chiefs and Corporate representatives from each community
• Delivers programs and services through local community government
• Provides services that respect and reflect the Anishinabe cultural beliefs, traditions and practices

Advisory services and support are provided in the following areas:

• Economic Development
• Financial
• Fire Prevention
• Ge Da Gi Binez Youth Centre
• Human Resources
• Membership
• Rainy Lake Tribal Area Business & Financial Services Corporation
• Technical Services, Engineering
• Technical Services, Housing
• Technical Services, Operations & Maintenance

• Provides individuals with access to a full range of traditional healing practices
  
• Coordinates referrals for visits to Traditional Healers
  
• Maintains resources on local area elders and healers
  
• Provides education on traditional healing methods

Some activities offered are:

• Aboriginal craft group
  
• Attendance at local First Nations health fairs
  
• Cultural education in local schools
  
• Elder visits and ceremonies at Rainycrest Home for the Aged
  
• Spring medicine walk

• Functions as a withdrawal management and alcohol/drug addictions treatment centre
  
• Offers a 28-day land-based program in an eight-bed co-ed residential treatment facility (also offers two detoxification beds)
  
• Addresses the needs of an individual's spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional health and well-being
  
• Assists individual to gain an understanding of how abuse, relationship dynamics, addictions, self-destructive behavior and family violence affects their life
  
• Supports individual through a journey of self and includes components such as detoxification, stabilization, introductions to food, exercise, and cultural activities and healing practices

Services and programs include but are not limited to;

• Assessment and treatment planning
  
• Medically-supervised detoxification
  
• Individual/group counselling
  
• Nutrition information and guidance
  
• Cultural/recreational activities such as fishing, trapping, snowshoeing, and medicine picking
  
• Health services
  
• Aftercare planning and follow-up
  
• Relapse prevention

Provides a year-round land-based program available to the 10 Tribal Area First Nation communities

Coordinates and administers healing/wellness programs/services which can include but are not limited to:

• Aftercare land-based seasonal programming, requested and driven by the community and no longer than 3-5 days
• Traditional ceremonies and teachings such as sharing circles, full moon ceremony, men's and women's teachings, and Water walks
• Cultural activities such as moccasin making, quill box making, medicine harvesting, hand drum and rattle making, tobacco making and snaring
• Native language workshops to learn Anishinaabemowin
• Counselling services

Provides supports and training for individuals seeking further training and/or employment

• Provides individual employment counselling
  
• Conducts client employability assessments
  
• Offers access to job board with current local job postings
  
• Provides workshops and referrals to training programs

Provides assistance with:

• Writing resumes and cover letters
  
• Completing job applications
  
• Conducting job searches
  
• Improving interview skills
  
• Designing and implementing an employment action plan
  
• Matching job seekers with employers

Provides information about:

• Local, provincial and national job markets
  
• Small business and proposal development
  
• Training opportunities

Offers a methadone maintenance program for opiate addicts based on an intensive outpatient model, over a 12-24 month period
Services include:

• Initial intake screening procedure
• A signed treatment contract
• Focused medical examination
• Appropriate lab tests
• Initial as well as ongoing supervised urinalysis
• Weekly group and individual therapy
• Regular medical follow-ups and supervision
• Regular daily Methadone dosing
• Treatment of addiction related illness and/or diseases (such as Hepatitis C and HIV infection)
• After care program

Also offers onsite, in partnership with the Northwestern Health Unit:

• Needle Exchange Program
• Naloxone Overdose Response Program - a lifesaving medication that can quickly restore the breathing of a person who has overdosed on heroin or prescription opioid pain medication

 

• Offers a wide range of community-based and culturally appropriate programs and services to Métis people
  
• Participates in community development activities that promote cultural diversity and partnership development with other Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal agencies
  
• Offers hall rentals to community organizations

Addresses the needs of Métis people by providing the following programs and services:

• Education and Training Branch, Education Program
  
• Education and Training Branch, Employment and Training Program
  
• Healing and Wellness Branch, Community Support Services
  
• Healing and Wellness Branch, Community Wellness Program
  
• Healing and Wellness Branch, Food Bank
  
• Healing and Wellness Branch, Métis Family Wellness Program
  
• Healing and Wellness Branch, Métis Healthy Babies Healthy Children
  
• Lands, Resources and Consultations Branch

Council

• Provides advocacy and deals with political issues for Sunset Country Métis Nation
  
• Assists individuals and families with issues such as membership and genealogy

Ontario Telemedicine Network

• Provides video-conferencing suites on-site which use the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)
  
• Allows psychiatrists and other health care specialists to have a remote connection to patients and clients
  
• Reduces the need to travel to receive care

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

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