Our Mission
Building capacity with healthy communities while ensuring team and individual health.
To enhance (holistic) wellness for all, using unique community-based approaches, practices, traditional teachings, promoting healthy lifestyles and positive outcomes.
By the enhancement and promotion of respectful engagement, clinical interventions with individuals and community expertise, rooted in traditional teachings. Environment free of racism and discrimination where people feel safe.
Our Vision
With Anishinabek culture as our foundation, promote and support wellness, through a balance of mental, spiritual, emotional, physical for individuals, families and communities.
Our Values
- The emotional, physical, mental, spiritual gifts will guide each in our journey.
- Practicing purposeful expression of feelings with controlled emotional involvement
- Equality, self reflective practice, you are responsible for the energy you bring into this room, to be aware of the imbalances in the social systems, advocates, navigators,
- Open with ourselves and others through straightforward and transparent communication
- Facing a problem with integrity doing what is right, advocates, building confidence and resiliency
- Knowledge, experience and good judgement is the quality of being wise. Our decisions come from our wisdom. Enhancing wisdom, encourages positive attitudes, behaviours and mental wellness.
- Realizing and honour the value of all people and things. Appreciation and honouring ourselves, individuals, families, communities and other Nations.
- Respect: value all people and things, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, courteous appreciation, honor traditional roles and teachings. Do no harm acceptance, non-judgemental attitude, client self-determination, confidentiality
Goals
Increase the use the teachings of our people, including respect, wisdom, love, bravery, humility, trust, truth, sharing, and kindness.
Increase awareness and honor the Circle of Life and ensuring balance between the four elements: spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional.
Provide and share the teachings of our people from generation to generation. We share best practices and learn from each other.
We are the stewards of the land and we value our connections to the land. The land is our teacher, provider, and medicine-healer.
Balancing and honor Choices and Respect Differences: Everyone is different and we honor and respect these differences. Everyone has the ability to make the choices that are best for them.
Provide and share our Language. Recognize it is rooted in our culture as Anishinabe. It connects us with the land, our ancestors, and each other.
Provide our history and allow it to guide us toward the future. Through understanding our history, we can recognize and embrace our resilience.
Improving Safe Communities: Our families take responsibility for each other and are integral to community wellbeing.
Increasing connectedness: We build supportive connections and relationships both within and outside the community, which promote participation and inclusiveness.
Increased community ownership over our health and approaches to wellbeing.
Improved approaches to community wellbeing, which are integrated, wholistic, sustainable, and proactive.
Building capacity: Increased number of people leading the way who are committed to healthy communities.