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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.)
Indigenous Healing and Wellness Program
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-8541
427 Mowat Ave
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3N1
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3N1
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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National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-0441
204 Frog Creek Rd
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M3
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M3
Short Description
Provides services and support for individuals and families struggling with addiction issues
Provides the following services aimed at preventing alcohol and drug abuse problems from reoccurring:
- 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
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
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National Native Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program
Emo (38km)
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Office: 807-482-2479
6 Manitou Rapids Dr
Emo, ON, P0W 1E0
Emo, ON, P0W 1E0
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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Family Support Services
Emo (38km)
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Office: 807-482-2479
6 Manitou Rapids Dr
Emo, ON, P0W 1E0
Emo, ON, P0W 1E0
Short Description
- 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
- 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
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National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program
La Vallée (20km)
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Office: 807-486-3407
RR 1
La Vallée, ON, P0W 1C0
La Vallée, ON, P0W 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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Family Support Services
La Vallée (20km)
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Office: 807-486-3407
RR 1
La Vallée, ON, P0W 1C0
La Vallée, ON, P0W 1C0
Short Description
- 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
- 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
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Healing and Wellness and Justice Worker Program
La Vallée (20km)
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Office: 807-486-3407
RR 1
La Vallée, ON, P0W 1C0
La Vallée, ON, P0W 1C0
Short Description
- 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
- Offers culturally appropriate supports to help Indigenous people deal with the criminal justice system
- Coordinates the justice system within the community
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Family Healing Program
Devlin (16km)
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Main Office: 807-274-3201
WFS Office: 807-486-1618
71 McTavish Rd
Devlin, ON, P0W 1C0
Devlin, ON, P0W 1C0
Short Description
- 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
- Pre-treatment/orientation including intake
- Treatment, provided through a 15-day outpatient program
- Post-discharge/aftercare services up to six months
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Family Well Being Program
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation (11km)
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Office: 807-274-2188
108 Main St
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, ON, P9A 3M9
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, ON, P9A 3M9
Short Description
- 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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National Native Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation (11km)
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Office: 807-274-2188
108 Main St
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, ON, P9A 3M9
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, ON, P9A 3M9
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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Family Support Services
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation (11km)
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Office: 807-274-2188
Crisis: 807-274-3201
108 Main St
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, ON, P9A 3M9
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, ON, P9A 3M9
Short Description
- 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
- 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
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Aboriginal Healing and Wellness
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation (11km)
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Office: 807-274-2188
108 Main St
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, ON, P9A 3M9
Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, ON, P9A 3M9
Short Description
- 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
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Health Access Centre
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-3131
1460 Idylwild Dr
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M3
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M3
Short Description
Provides a primary health care clinic for Indigenous individuals and families
- Coordinates professional services through Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses, Health Educators, Registered Dietitian, Mental Health worker and Traditional Ojibway healers
- Offers culturally appropriate programs and services combining traditional healing methods and Western medical practices
- Provides treatment of illnesses and chronic disease management
- Provides referrals to other service providers and specialists
- Performs some diagnostic procedures including electrocardiograms and specimen collection
- Publishes a monthly newsletter available online
- Collaborates with Riverside Health Care Facilities and Fort Frances Family Health Team for consultations, diagnostic imaging and laboratory analysis
- Administers various health-related programs
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Children's Mental Health Program
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-8541
427 Mowat Ave
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3N1
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3N1
Short Description
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
- 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
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Traditional Healing Program
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-3131
1460 Idylwild Dr
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M3
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M3
Short Description
- 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
- Aboriginal weekly 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
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Administration
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-788-1003
1455 Idylwild Dr, GCT3 Satellite Office
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M3
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M3
Short Description
- Carries out all administrative duties for Grand Council Treaty 3
- Assists all member communities in their quest for inherent jurisdiction, sovereignty, nation-building and traditional governance
- Advocates to improve quality of life for all members in areas of education, lands and resources, health, governance, and justice
- Child care
- Culture and citizenship
- Economic development
- Education
- Health
- Housing/infrastructure
- Internal and external relations
- Justice
- Natural resources
- Social services
- Territorial Planning
- Trapping
- Youth and recreation
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Chief's Council
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-8531
1455 Idylwild Dr
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M8
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M8
Short Description
- 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 in the areas of administration, finance, economic development, education, membership, health and technical services through local community government
- Operates the Ge Da Gi Binez Youth Detention Centre
- Owns and operates Rainy Lake Tribal Area Business & Financial Services Corporation
- Provides services that respect and reflect the Anishinabe cultural beliefs, traditions and practices
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Human Resources
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-8531
1455 Idylwild Dr
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M8
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M8
Short Description
- 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
- 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
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Residential Treatment Facility
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-2042
Intake: 807-271-0194
Withdrawal Management Services: 807-274-7373
Fire # 1107 Mishkiki Miikan Rd, Hwy 11
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M3
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3M3
Short Description
- 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
- 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
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Waasodii Omii'e Program
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-2042
Crisis: 807-271-0212
Intake: 807-274-2042 Ext 4238
601 King's Hwy
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 2X1
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 2X1
Short Description
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:
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
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Métis Council Administration
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-1386
426 Victoria Ave
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 2C3
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 2C3
Short Description
- 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 Indigenous and non-Indigenous agencies
- Offers hall rentals to community organizations
- Addresses the needs of Sunset Country Métis people by providing and administering various programs and services
- Provides advocacy and deals with political issues for Sunset Country Métis Nation
- Assists individuals and families with issues such as membership and genealogy
- 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
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Community Wellness Worker Program
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-1386
426 Victoria Ave
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 2C3
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 2C3
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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Apatisiwin Employment Services
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-8541
427 Mowat Ave
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3N1
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3N1
Short Description
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
- 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
- Local, provincial and national job markets
- Small business and proposal development
- Training opportunities
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Friendship Centre Administration
Fort Frances
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Office: 807-274-8541
427 Mowat Ave
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3N1
Fort Frances, ON, P9A 3N1
Short Description
- Administers social, cultural, economic or recreational programs for Indigenous people in the Fort Frances area
- Provides a meeting place for urban Indigenous people and community members regardless of nationality
- Works to build a bridge of understanding between Native and non-Native people
- Hosts cultural events including Pow Wows and community barbeques
- Participates in various community events such as hosting an annual Remembrance Day and co-sponsoring a Christmas Toy Drive
- Offers crisis intervention, drop-in, advocacy, and other supports
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Community Wellness Program
Emo (38km)
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Office: 807-482-2479
6 Manitou Rapids Dr
Emo, ON, P0W 1E0
Emo, ON, P0W 1E0
Short Description
- Promotes healthy individuals, families and communities with regard to family violence
- Provides culturally appropriate support services, resources, educational materials, and workshops to address community wellness needs
- Provides cultural teachings and direct traditional activities such as sweat-lodges, medicine picking and drumming
- Alcohol, street drug and solvent abuse
- Bullying and cyberspace
- Family violence
- Grief and loss
- Healthy relationships
- Healthy families and surviving responsibilities
- Prescription drug abuse
- Self esteem
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