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• Teachings: Cultural teachings delivered by Knowledge Keeper to provide Indigenous peoples access to traditional knowledge​
• Fires: Fire program is open 5 days a week to Indigenous families who seek to gather with their family around a fire.
• Sharing Circles: Offered on a bi-weekly basis dependent on community needs. Sharing Circles provide people with peer support to overcome specific challenges.
• Spirit Building Workshops

• Counselling
• Referrals
• Cultural Activities

A culturally safe and appropriate space for Indigenous people to access housing supports and connect with peers in a community-based setting. Access meals, connect with elders and knowledge keepers, access traditional medicine, and meet with housing workers.

• Criminal Court Worker - assists offenders to better understand their rights, options, and responsibilities when appearing before the court. Assists adults and youth charged with criminal offenses to navigate the court processes
• Combined Court Worker - helps navigate Indigenous youth, adults, and families through criminal court, family court and child services
• Indigenous Healing and Wellness - assists individuals to access services, provides crisis intervention, offers traditional support, and provides peer counselling to community members impacted by violence. Services are available on a one-to-one basis or in a group setting
• Cultural Resource Coordinator - provides access to cultural knowledge by fostering positive Indigenous identity essential to well-being and resilience. Services are culturally reflective and prevention-focused, with a focus on maintaining cultural connections to identity, knowledge, traditions, ceremonies, education, training, and traditional support. THIS PROGRAM IS CURRENTLY ON HOLD
• Apatisiwin Program Worker - provides services to youth and adults in employment counselling, job preparations (application processing, resume/cover letter assistance, referrals to agencies, etc), purchase of training, apprenticeship skills training, and training supports
• Mental Health and Wellness Coordinator - provides a holistic and positive approach to support the needs of mental health and addictions for Indigenous people and their families. Implements programs to improve the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of both clients and their families that are culturally based and foster the learning of self-respect and identity
• Mental Health Peer Support Coordinator - provides networks of support and mentorship to Urban Indigenous people under community supervision orders as they seek to improve their mental health, reduce any harms associated with their behaviours, avoid justice system recidivism, and pursue a Good Mind

Aims to improve the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of Aboriginal children and their families by offering a wide range of events and activities that focus on cultural awareness, physical activities, arts and crafts, life skills, and strengthening family relationships.

• cultural and recreational program
• traditional teaching
• drumming circles
• talkin circles
• one on one, group and peer informal counselling
• community referrals

• housing
• education
• health
• mental health
• legal
• employment
• life skills
• personal goals & well being

• Six Nations Sports & Cultural Memorial Centre (arena)
• community hall
• softball diamonds
• sports fields
• running track
• splash pad
• Dajoh Youth & Elders Centre, includes a double gym

• outreach support to Indigenous seniors
• social safety visits and reassurance check
• congregate dining
• friendly visiting

• personal care
• housekeeping
• transportation
• shopping assistance

• emphasis on Native culture
• arts and crafts
• Ojibwa and Mohawk children and adult language classes
• Cedar basket, gift shop
• drumming, singing, language, cooking, craft online workshops
• Dodem Kanonhsa Cultural Facility in partnership with Inidigenous Services Canada
  
• women and men's circles
• teaching circles
• visiting Elder, mental health counsellor

• information and referral
• advocacy
• urban orientation
• meeting space for rent
• volunteer opportunities

• administers the "Indian Act"
• provides registration services and information on Treaty and Status rights
• Certificates of Indian Status (Status Cards)

Deliver various programs and services for Metis people * education & training, healing & wellness, intergovernmental relations, lands, resources & consultations

Education and Training - Offer a range of supports and services for the educational success of all Métis across Ontario beginning in early childhood, continuing through elementary school, middle school, and high school through to post-secondary education and into adulthood

Healing and Wellness - Facilitates and coordinates programs, services, and activities to address the holistic needs of Métis people in Ontario at the provincial, regional, and local levels

• Assistance with emergency problems
• focus on Native cultural and spiritual awareness

• drop-in
• social programs and events
• crafts and hobby groups
• meal program

• transportation
• friendly visiting
• congregate dining
• Aboriginal support
• security reassurance
• life skills outreach in the community

• information, peer and cultural counselling and referral
• self-help groups

• parenting group
• prenatal nutrition program
• community kitchen
• cultural teachings and activities
• health and physical development
• educational support including tutoring

• individual support
• mentoring
• tutoring and homework help
• nutrition and healthy lifestyles workshops
• snacks and meals
• cultural teachings and activities

• academic upgrading
• basic computer training

• Facilitates the discussion, planning, implementation and evaluation of all local, regional and national matters affecting the First Nations people of Ontario
• Serves as a political forum and secretariat for collective decision-making, action, and advocacy for 133 First Nations in Ontario
• Maintains a directory of First Nations communities on website
• Governed by the Political Confederacy (PC), composed of the Grand Chiefs of the four political territorial organizations and a representative of the independent First Nations, overseen by the Regional Elder and chaired by the Ontario Regional Chief

• Aboriginal Healthy Babies Healthy Children
• Indigenous Families First Program
• Indigenous Healing and Wellness Program
• Ka'nikuhli:yo - Good Mind Support

• provides information and support on how to apply for 'Registered Indian Status Cards
• provides guest speakers who will discuss Indigenous issues and topics
• community engagement events happen throughout the calendar year
• Programs Include:
  • Indigenous Healthy Babies/Healthy Children Program
  • Indigenous Family Support Program
  • Indigenous l Health Outreach Worker
  • Life Long Care Program
  • Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Program
  • Akwe:go Program
  • Wasa-Nabin Program
  • Hunger To Hope Program
  • Urban Indigenous Healthy Living Program
  • Apatisiwin Employment and Training Counsellor
  • Indigenous Criminal Court Worker
  • Indigenous Bail Supervisor
  • Kizhaay Anisinaabe Niin (I'm a Kind Man) Program
  • Cultural Resource Coordinator
  • Criminal and Family Court Worker
  • Restorative Justice Coordinator

• Native court-work
• Health outreach
• Life Long Care
• Addictions
• Healthy Babies
• Family support
• Prenatal worker
• Employment
• ACE Program
• Literacy
• Healing and Wellness
• Youth programs
• Court worker
• Cultural workshops
• Community Access Programs - CAP Site

• Play area for children, sitting area for adults, TV, books to read, refreshments, resource library, computer open for public use (job search, resource information, assignments)
• Provides programs and services for pregnant and postnatal Indigenous women and their families.
• Incorporates traditional Indigenous teachings into the programs.
• Improves the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being of off-reserve Indigenous children, youth, adults and elderly.
• Provides a space that creates a positive sense of Indigenous identity and sense of belonging in Friendship Centres for Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ people.
• Provides community support services to all urban Indigenous clients, irregardless of age, who are disabled, chronically ill, frail elderly or require acute/chronic continuum of care.
• Provides crisis intervention for adults and children at risk. Addresses underlying mental/emotional issues that contribute to violence and dysfunction. Reduces family violence through community awareness, education and peer counselling.
• Provides healthy foods through programs, with access to traditional foods and knowledge.
• Works collaboratively with other agencies through outreach and strategic partnerships to build community capacity to heal and grow.
• Employment and training designed to support and promote education and employment through services such as job bank, employment counselling, referrals and use of resources and pre-employment training.
• Assists Indigneous people involved in the Canadian justice better understand their rights, options and responsibilities when appearing before the courts.
• Addresses individual, family, and community mental health and addiction needs utilizing a wholistic approach to care (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual).
• Works towards reducing Indigenous homelessness in Grey County (Giiwe - an inter-organizational housing-related response for Indigenous-specific housing needs and preferences)

• Prenatal classes
• nutrition information
• traditional birth
• traditional parenting
• breastfeeding support
• hospital/home visit
• community kitchens
• parenting group
• nutrition and health related workshops
• parents and tot's program
• cultural teaching program
• Parent Support and Clothing Exchange
• Men's Drum Circle
• Women's Sharing Circle
• Potluck dinner and Community Dinner

• seminars and workshops
• one to one and group sessions
• referral services
• talking/sharing/teaching circles

• services are sensitive to social, linguistic and cultural diversity and reflective of children, family and the Indigenous community's strengths and needs
• support is based on the individual's or family's needs and preferences