Searching for Traditional Indigenous Healing

• 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

Person-centred, trauma-informed support for those facing challenges with substance use

Services include:

Addictions Support

• Addiction medicine
• Withdrawal management
• Addiction Counselling
• Safer Use Education

System Navigation and Housing Support

• Housing Applications
• ID Applications
• Financial Support
• Connections to Legal Aid
• Treatment Applications

Mental Health Supports

• Counselling Referrals
• Crisis Support
• Peer Support
• Psychiatry Referrals

Health Care Services

• Wound Care
• Prescriptions
• Vaccinations
• Nursing Assessments
• Screening and Testing

Indigenous Health and Well-being

• Cultural Support
• Traditional Healing and Ceremonies
• Cultural Programs and Activities
• Referral to Indigenous Health Services

• Operates a 20-bed live-in recovery home that provides support services to individuals with a substance use disorder
• Offers pre-treatment services to help stabilize individuals so they may attend a residential substance use disorder treatment program
• Offers post-treatment services to help individuals make the transition to an independent, substance-free lifestyle

• Advocacy and referrals
• Case management
• Peer support group
• Relapse prevention
• Transitional skills
• Traditional healing, counselling services and cultural supports are available from N'doo'owe Binesi's Indigenous Health Team

• Provides cultural awareness, teachings, values and traditions with all individuals accessing Dilico services
• Focus is to connect individuals and families to holistic healing with spiritual guidance, traditional teachings and language through Elders and cultural resources
• Hosts an annual Dilico powwow

• Home visits by an Elder and cultural staff
• Sacred healing circles
• Traditional healing/counselling
• Regalia making
• Spirit Naming ceremonies
• Traditional parenting education based on Anishinabek teachings

• Provides immediate care for non-emergency and uncomplicated situations, with a range of services similar to those provided by a primary care physician's office
• Provides tuberculosis (TB) skin testing for employment or academic placement requirements

• Provides primary care medical clinic
• Provides access to other health care professionals
• Provides tuberculosis (TB) skin testing for employment or academic placement requirements
• Offers clinics in the following areas: footcare, diabetes, lifestyle, COPD, smoking cessation, chronic pain management, well-baby and annual breast screening

• Health promotion
• Health education
• Illness prevention
• Disease diagnosis
• Management and rehabilitation

• Promotes Anishinaabe identity, language, history, and customs and values
• Seeks to revitalize more of the traditional way of life for Fort William First Nation members
• Collaborating currently with the Anemki Mountain Corp to build the Ojibway Interpretive Centre on Mount MacKay to promote own culture to members and visitors

• Conversational Ojibwe language classes
• Drum groups such as Men's Drum Group and Women's Hand Drum Group
• Drum making workshops and drum socials
• Elder's groups
• Pow Wows
• Regalia making
• Sweat lodges
• Trapping, hunting and fishing
• Young Leaders youth program

• Promotes healthy individuals, families and communities
• Focus is for building a healing strategy beginning with leadership and extending to each community member

• Administers a voluntary drug-testing program for community members in leadership roles and posts results on website
• Works to address the root causes of substance use/addiction and the harms associated with it
• Provides information on family violence, strategies to stop it and healthy relationships
• Facilitates group talking circles
• Offers individual peer counselling
• Provides advocacy between individual and organizations and agencies
• Hosts traditional gatherings including traditional teachings and feasts
• Provides referrals to needed community supports and services

• Delivers child care and protection services, and family support services to community members
• Administers protection services in collaboration with Dilico Anishinabek Family Care, a mandated Native Child Welfare Agency in Thunder Bay
• Partners with community police officers and local nursing staff to identify and support troubled families

• Intake
• Referrals
• Assessments
• Planning
• Advocacy
• Support

• 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 struggling with problematic substance use, inadequate housing, schooling problems and after school activities
• Organizes elders meetings that address traditional child rearing methods
• Provides information sessions about understanding substance dependency and resulting family violence, and overcoming oppression by understanding cultural realities

• Provides a support group for individuals struggling with/affected by addictions issues
• Coordinates group sessions for people to share confidentially about their personal issues
• Offers information sessions, guest speakers and education to assist with recovery
• Explores available resources to help with overcoming addictions and recovery
• Provides referrals to supports if requested

• Focus is on improving the overall health and well-being of community members 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
• Problematic alcohol and substance use 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

• Supports reduction or prevention of family and community violence
• Provides culturally appropriate support services, resources, educational materials, and workshops to address community wellness needs
• Promotes a culturally appropriate approach to healing and wellness

• Aboriginal Healing & Wellness Strategy
• Community Food Educator
• Early Childhood Development
• Federal Family Violence Initiatives

• Promotes healthy lifestyles through culturally based programs and healing
• Addresses and aims to reduce family and community violence
• Provides advocacy between individual and organizations and agencies
• Hosts traditional gatherings including traditional teachings and feasts
• Provides referrals to needed community supports and services

• Back to school supplies
• Children's and Elder's Christmas gifts
• Community Christmas party
• Community Tubing event
• Family Fun Days
• Father's and Mother's Day gifts
• Halloween party
• Traditional Pow Wow participation

• Promotes awareness of the risks associated with family violence
• Strives to reduce tolerance and occurrences of family violence
• Develops and implements community activities
• Participates in the annual Traditional Pow Wow

• Focuses on mental health crises and youth solvent abuse
• Works to develop community-based approaches to address mental health and addictions issues and to increase awareness and understanding
• Provides initiatives to address problems of hopelessness, suicide and family violence
• Provides training for caregivers and community members in post treatment

• Assessments
• Counselling services (individual and family)
• Referrals for treatment and follow-up treatment
• Aftercare
• Training of community members and caregivers for post-treatment

• Provides services to promote family and community healing and wellness
• Holds cultural sessions and workshops to empower community members with traditional knowledge and skills
• Acts as the resource person for community workshops

• Advocacy on behalf of community members for treatment centres and counselling
• Refers clients to Dilico for drug and alcohol assessments
• Assists with prevention programs
• Liaises for clients with Dilico, Children's Aid Society and other agencies
• Provides transportation to counselling sessions, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings (Schreiber and Terrace Bay) and Treatment Centre

• 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

• Provides education and support to individuals with addiction issues
• Offers both individual and group services

• Individual counselling
• Assessments and aftercare
• Education, prevention, and wellness
• Referrals for treatment and other healing services
• Ability to incorporate harm reduction approach

The ISRC is dedicated to providing Lakehead students with opportunities to get involved and learn about indigenous teachings, ceremonies, and traditions. Run fun and engaging activities like movie screenings, workshops, and even things like building a birchbark canoe. Committed to education and advocacy around these issues through an anti-colonial framework.

• ​Assists Indigenous women and their families who have experienced family violence
• Promotes a healthy lifestyle, health awareness, and mental health wellness

• Cultural supports and ceremonies
• Emergency support
• Land-based activities
• Prevention of family violence
• Referrals to other services
• Safety planning
• Traditional healing

• Provides services and support for Indigenous women who have experienced violence and for the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW)

• Assistance with understanding the criminal justice process
• Court support
• Crisis and emergency response due to violence/death
• Healing services including talking circles, cultural healing, Elder's guidance and referrals to other services
• Support at meetings with the police, the courts, and other service providers

• Provides support services to Indigenous women and their families who are struggling with mental health and/or addiction issues
• Aims to help improve Indigenous health and reduce family violence

• Access to elders and healers
• Addictions
• Aftercare support
• Land-based therapy
• Mental health
• Traditional counselling
• Referrals to other programs or agencies
• Sharing/healing circles

• Offers a program to families with children and youth who may have been affected by alcohol before birth
• Provides pre and post natal education and support

• Elders and Knowledge Keepers
• Drumming
• Indigenous ceremonies or sweats offered in the community
• Sacred medicines
• Sharing of teachings
• Smudge Shells

• Operates an Indigenous Community Health Centre
• Offers primary health care, clinical services, and health examinations
• Offers culturally appropriate programs and services for Indigenous people, combining traditional healing and Western medical practices
• Offers a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects Project to help support women not to drink alcohol during pregnancy so as to avoid Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) birth defects or Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) birth defects
• Offers Diabetes treatment and management

• Immunization Clinic
• Wholistic Healing
• Life Skills
• Healthy Choices
• Pre/Postnatal Support