Child Health, Social and Family Services

Aboriginal Family Support Program

The province-wide family support program was launched to address the lack of existing services for infants and toddlers in Ontario.

Source: Odawa Native Friendship Centre

Aboriginal Prenatal Nutrition Program

The Aboriginal Prenatal Nutrition Program is a federal program that offers support to urban Aboriginal women and their babies up to six months of age.

Source: United Native Friendship Centre

Ah-shawah-bin Sioux Lookout / Lac Seul Victim Support Services

Offers intervention and support to victims of crime and tragic circumstance, including information on victim rights and education on abuse issues.

Anishinaabe Abinoojii Family Services

This organisation aims to protect children and to heal families through the provision of holistic, bi-cultural services that respect the heritage, values, customs and tradition of the Anishinaabe people.

Community and Social Services

Provides information about programs and facilities to people within the community and beyond. Additional features: job openings, news, upcoming events, links to other health sites, and maps.

Source: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne

Dilico Ojibway Child and Family Services

Embraces a wholistic approach in the delivery of Health, Mental Health, Addictions, and Child Welfare services to compliment the strengths, values and traditions of Anishinabek children, families, and communities.

Equay–wuk (Women's Group)

Manages different programs to help women and their children who are experiencing family violence in the remote northern communities.

First Nations Agencies – Weechi–it–te–win Family Services

Weechi-it-te-win Family Services is an Indian alternative to child welfare that preserves Indian culture and identity among the people, to strengthen and maintain Indian families, etc.

Source: Pwi-Di-Goo-Zing Ne-Yaa-Zhing Advisory Services

Kina Gbezhgomi Child and Family Services

To provide supportive counselling services, foster care services, educational programs and other services for children and their families.

Makonsag Aboriginal Head Start (MAHS)

MAHS provides children with activities that help them become self-confident and grow mentally, socially, emotionally and physically.

Mnaasged Child and Family Services

Provides support to improve the quality of life for families now and for the next generations.

Nog–Da–Win–Da–Min Family and Community Services

Nog-Da-Win-Da-Min was established in 1990 as a Native Child and Family Services Agency. Its member First Nations mandated Nog-Da-Win-Da-Min to develop and implement a Native Child Welfare System that would provide culturally appropriate services to their children and families.

Noojmowin-Teg Health Centre

The programs and services offered by the centre include pre and postnatal care, nutrition, health education, health promotion, disease prevention, counselling and traditional healing and treatment.

Ontario Day Care Program

The Ontario Day Care program provides access to child care services that promote and nurture healthy child development through formal child day care programs and related support services.

Source: Government of Canada; Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)

Ontario Native Welfare Administrators Association

The Association promotes and develops culturally appropriate training and delivery of social programs, policies and practices and recommends amendments as they apply toward First Nations people.

Ottawa Inuit Children's Centre

The OICC website provides information about its events and programs that are designed for Inuit children and their families living in the Ottawa area.

Source: Ottawa Inuit Children's Centre

Raising the Children Program

A training program to Aboriginal parents to ensure the happiness and well-being of their children.

Resource List for Native Communities in Ontario

This page differentiates the different forms of abuse, as well as provides a list of websites linking to various organizations helping Aboriginal women in need.

Source: Education Wife Assault

Sense of Belonging: Supporting Healthy Child Development in Aboriginal Families, A (Manual) (PDF)

This document shares information about what Aboriginal people feel they need to raise their children, and was developed to help non-Aboriginal service providers in improving service delivery to Aboriginal families.

Source: Best Start: Ontario's Maternal Newborn and Early Child Development

Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre

Strives to provide quality, wholistic health services by sharing and promoting traditional and western health practices to enable people to live in a more balanced state of well-being.

Sweetgrass Home Child Care Agency

The goal of the Odawa Sweetgrass Home Child Care Agency is to provide quality care for aboriginal children in the homes of supervised, self-employed Aboriginal caregivers.

Source: Odawa Native Friendship Centre

Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health

The mandate of the Centre is to create and deliver culturally-sensitive services that will prevent ill health, treat illness and provide support and aftercare.

Wassay·Gezhig Na·Nahn·Dah·We·Igamig – Kenora Area Health Access Centre

Serves the Aboriginal community through traditional and contemporary health care relative to mind, body and spirit to foster healthy Aboriginal people and communities.

Weechi-it-te-win Family Services

Weechi-it-te-win Family Services places an emphasis on personal and family healing as well as community capacity building.

Weejeendimin Native Resource Centre

The purpose of the Weejeendimin Native Resource Centre is to improve the cultural and social well being of the Native population in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.

Source: Anishnebeg Outreach

Weeneebayko Health Ahtuskaywin

Dedicated to continually enhancing the provision of health care services to the people of the Mushkegowuk Territory.

Wikwemikong Family Centre

Ensures that their children and their families maintain a holistic lifestyle with strong cultural values in today's society.

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