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Nurturing a healthy Aboriginal non-profit sector.
The Cwenengitel Aboriginal Society provides a safe environment for Aboriginal men to reside while addressing drug and alcohol addiction. The Society aims to help clients return to their community and lead a productive life. Among the services offered are counselling, life skills, and traditional healing methods, including a weekly healing circle.
Phone: 604-309-2702
Phone: 604-588-5910
Provides a safe environment where Aboriginal men may reside while addressing drug and alcohol addiction. Aims to help clients return to their community and lead a productive life. Offers counselling, life skills, and traditional healing methods, to residents and non-residents. Holds a traditional healing circle at 7:30pm on Thursdays. Accepts self-referrals. Does not accept men on methadone maintenece.
The mission of CHABC is to support the professional development of health and addiction workers in First Nations communities. The organization assists these workers in meeting the needs of their clients, and it encourages them to assume leadership roles in their communities.
Since 1987, Chrysalis Society has helped over 2000 women overcome chemical dependency and transition to empowered, self-sustainable lives. For many women who graduated from our programs, reuniting with their families has gone from a dream to a reality.
COELS takes a holistic approach to integrating its clients into the community. Services offered by the Society include mental health and addictions counselling, pre-employment training, and life skills programs. A definitive factor in the success of COELS is that it incorporates elements of traditional culture, such as sweat lodges and talking circles.
Central Interior Native Health strives to address the unique health care needs of Aboriginal People and people who live on, or close to, the street. The goal is to provide culturally sensitive and proactive care that promotes physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual harmony.
CAAN is a national forum for Aboriginal Peoples to holistically address AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, as well as related issues such as mental health. CAAN provides information on these issues in a culturally relevant manner for Aboriginal Peoples wherever they reside.
The Bridge Medical Clinic serves the communities between the Comox Valley and Campbell River. The physicians and staff strive to provide the highest quality care as both a walk-in clinic and a family practice.
An inter-agency network of residential/outpatient addictions programs operated by First Nations in British Columbia. Currently, the Association has a number of programs located both in rural and urban settings.
The Aboriginal Front Door Society is a culturally safe, peer designed non-judgemental place for Aboriginal Peoples and thier friends and family in the Downtown East Side. We create hope and offer support through Aboriginal cultural traditions, caring and acceptance. We are a meeting place and a drop in centre with a welcoming environment, providing opportunities to learn more about Aboriginal Peoples and Culture. When necessary, we can also offer other services, such as serving as a crisis centre, brokering long term and specialty trauma counselling, and doing court accompaniments. Our goal is to restore respect, dignity and pride to our members.
