Searching for Traditional Indigenous Healing And Wellness

• 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

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 problematic alcohol, drug use and gambling
• 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 problematic alcohol and drug use 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

Promotes the development of good mental health and provides services for individuals with mental health issues

Provides information and awareness activities including but not limited to:

• Depression
• Family violence
• Stress management

Services include:

• Counselling services for children, youth and families
• Cultural activities and crafts
• Recreational activities
• Wellness activities

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
• Provides referrals to counselling, legal services, and treatment centres
• Organizes and facilitates community events in school, powwows, and health fairs to promote a healthy lifestyle and prevention of family violence

Offers workshops/education including but not limited to the following topics:

• Alcohol, street drug and solvent abuse
• Bullying and cyberspace
• Family violence
• Healthy relationships
• Healthy families and surviving responsibilities
• Prescription drug abuse
• Self esteem

• 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

• 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

Offers workshops including but not limited to the following topics:

• Alcohol, street drug and solvent misuse
• Bullying and cyberspace
• Family violence
• Grief and loss
• Healthy relationships
• Healthy families and surviving responsibilities
• Problematic prescription drug use
• Self esteem

• 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 problematic alcohol, drug use and gambling
• 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

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 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

• 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

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

• 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 problematic alcohol and 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

Provides services and support for individuals and families struggling with problematic alcohol and substance use 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 problematic alcohol and substance use, and gambling issues
• 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 problematic alcohol and substance use issues 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

Works to address the needs and to improve the in-hospital experience of Indigenous individuals and families

Services include but are not limited to:

• Advocacy for the client
• Coordinate for language translation if needed
• Assistance for in-hospital patients to understand what is happening
• In-hospital visiting
• Arrange for cultural requests such as smudging, traditional medicines, and offering tobacco
• Arrange for Elders, Healers and Knowledge Keepers upon patient request
• Liaise with health representatives such as Community Health Nurses and Health Directors at Band level
• Assistance with hospital discharge and out-of-hospital follow-up and support

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

• 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 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

• Functions as a withdrawal management and problematic alcohol/substance use 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, problematic alcohol and substance use issues, 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

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

• 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