Exploring Theme: "Investments in Indigenous Healing Centres"

NationTalk: CRANBROOK – More young people struggling with mental-health and addictions challenges will benefit from a first-of-its-kind Foundry centre in Cranbrook. “Children and youth are facing a lot of challenges, and we are ensuring that supports are available for them to be healthy, both physically and mentally,” said Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Mental Health and...

NationTalk: ReNew Canada – The downtown core in Edmonton will have an improved facility for an essential range of programs and services after a combined investment of more than $45 million from the federal government and the Boyle Street Community Services. Announced by Minister Randy Boissonnault and Jordan Reiniger, executive director, Boyle Street Community Services, this new building space will...

APTN News: Healing can happen in the bush. So says the Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation of Yellowknife, which is celebrating seven years of operation. Its land-based camp has been helping Métis, Inuit and Dene clients from remote communities in three territories who are struggling with addiction. “Four hours sometimes I spend with one person,” says Dene-Métis...

Health services within the new Biindigen Well-Being Centre will have ‘profound impact,’ says DAHC board chair CBC Indigenous: Federal funding announcements aren’t always as emotional as the one Monday morning in Hamilton’s east end. People teared up, hugged and expressed their appreciation for one another’s work on a long-term Indigenous health and housing project.  “To see a...

NationTalk: Evidence-based Treatment Services will be Provided Through Culturally Relevant Programs: Guillemard The Manitoba government is investing $893,000 to implement a new Indigenous-led Rapid Access to Addictions Medicine (RAAM) clinic at the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre (AHWC) in Winnipeg, Mental Health and Community Wellness Minister Sarah Guillemard announced today. “Manitobans are experiencing harms related...

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada: Today, Chief Barry Nikal from the Witset First Nation and the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown−Indigenous Relations, announced the launch of the Witset Youth Healing Lodge Project. The Government of Canada will provide $3,826,659 through the Cultural Spaces in Indigenous Communities Program (CSICP) towards this project. The Witset...

NationTalk: WILLIAMS LAKE – First Nations people living in Williams Lake and the surrounding communities of the Dakelh Dene, Tŝilhqot’in and Secwepemc Nations have access to culturally safe primary care with the opening of a new First Nations Wellness Centre (FNWC) on Oct. 11, 2022, at 281 1st Ave. North. “The First Nations Wellness Centre in...

WawatayNews: Health leaders and advocates gathered at the Keepers Of The Circle Office in Kirkland Lake on September 29 for an open house event. This two part event was meant to showcase the newly renovated and completed Keepers Of The Circle office building and to host the official opening of the Mino M’Shki-ki Indigenous Health...

CTV News – Atlantic: A new health care centre is opening in Halifax on Friday to help promote urban Indigenous wellness. The innovative approach to health care delivery aims to help bridge gaps in health care for Indigenous people in the region, while specializing in the complex health needs of the urban Indigenous population. Known...

It is with great excitement we announce the launch of the Biindigen Well-Being Centre, which will be home to De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre, Niwasa Kendaaswin Teg and Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services. In addition, McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine will be partnering with De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre...

NationTalk: Indigenous Services Canada – The White Buffalo Treatment Centre Board of Directors and staff, in partnership with Indigenous Services Canada, is pleased to announce the grand opening of their permanent facility located on Muskoday First Nation, Saskatchewan. The treatment centre is designed to meet the needs of Indigenous female youth, between the ages of...