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Provides the following pre and post natal support to expectant mothers, their families and partners:

• Access to midwives or western medical professionals
• Birth control
• Community kitchens
• Health information
• Home visits
• Outings
• Prenatal nutrition
• Pre and post natal exercise classes
• Support services
• Teaching and advocacy

This organization is a Registered Charity

Offers a daily food program for Centre attendees which provides the following services:

• Choice of a nutritious breakfast and/or lunch for a small fee
• Instruction on how to prepare nutritious meals
• Teaching how to read recipes
• Education about food budgeting and grocery shopping
• Proper food handling

Provides programming specific to child nutrition and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

Offers a variety of programs and services including:

• community kitchens
• cultural workshops
• family drop-in programming
• nutritional workshops
• parent and children support circle
• prenatal classes
• resource library

Offers a family support group for families who have a member living with FASD

Health services department of Moose Deer Point offering:

• cultural awareness sessions
• illness and injury prevention workshops
• health promotion and educational workshops on a variety of health issues such as cancer and Alzheimer's
• blood pressure screening and monitoring
• pre-natal screenings
• diabetes support group and foot care clinic
• heart health sessions
• mental health and wellness (individual and group counselling)
• recreational activities for school age children and seniors
• youth group
• meals on wheels
• healthy cooking classes
• youth group/counselling sessions

COVID19 Offices closed but staff will still be working remotely to serve our community during regular business hours : leave a message with you name, phone number and the reason for your call and someone will return you call as soon as possible. Recorded voicemail message will provide updates on services. Please note that the following programs are suspended until further notice.
Basic Needs program

Furniture exchange bank

PEPtalks (24 March 2020) ​

• Counselling
• Crisis intervention
• Advocacy
• Referrals
• Personal and emotional counselling
• Family and marital counselling
• Grief counselling
• Trauma and stress counselling
• Walk-in counselling

Community Support Programs:

• Help with basic needs
• Youth camp fund
• Community Christmas Basket Program
• Community partner delivering Canadian Tire Jumpstart Program
• Local distributer for the Child Poverty Action Networks (CPAN) Programs

A social enterprise providing support to women in North Simcoe who have experienced violence and offers

• a drop-in space
• an inspected kitchen for food preparation and service
• trauma-informed yoga and meditation
• supported training and employment
• meeting rooms.

See separate listing for weekly Miijim Market (MID0621)

Drop in Collective Kitchen held in Apsley and McArthur's Mills (call for details)

Community Kitchens are a fun way to learn new recipes and cooking skills

• budget breakdown is discussed and provided, in order to ensure that the meals are economical as well as nutritious
• nutrition kits that contain ingredients for a healthy, low cost, easy to prepare meals are distributed through several of our Bancroft playgroups
• food table set up that has lots of printed recipes and information available
• small emergency food bank available to families who use the services or other folks in the community who are referred by another agency

Drop-in parent/caregiver/child interactive playgroups

• parent and children encouraged to participate in all activities including a hands-on cooking experience
• early learning activities focused on food & nutrition

Programs and services include:

• 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

Offers prepared meals with kidney dietary restrictions in mind so kidney care patients can eat healthier and within their dietary requirements.

• Kidney friendly frozen meals that can be purchased through the hospital.
• Works with the registered dietitians to prepare meal options to follow specific kidney friendly, low salt dietary guidelines.
• Twelve meal options available and six low sodium soup choices
• Meals are ready-to-bake from the freezer

Educational, health, healing and counselling centre

• transformation, lifestyle, and relationship counseling
• systems thinker consultant
• some services available via telephone or Internet
• complete online products catalogue

COVID-19 (9 Jun 2020) Tungasuvvingat Inuit Food Bank is open for Inuk in need of food support. * Contact TI worker for details or call Paulina at 613-857-1709. * All TI non-essential services programming are suspended until further notice. Mamisarvik Healing Centre is an essential service for the participants. * This information is regularly updated on their Facebook page.

Community centre that provides services adapted to the needs of Inuit clients

The Family Well-Being Program (1071 Richmond Rd): Prevention-focused, culturally-responsive supports to promote healthy communities * supports families to heal from the effects of intergenerational trauma, reduce violence * addresses the over-representation of Indigenous children and youth in child welfare and youth justice systems Child development and nutrition * cultural development and retention * parenting and care-taking skills * community development * pre and postnatal program

Youth Program (1071 Richmond Rd, 297 Savard): Various programs that promote Inuit culture and language * life skills education * promotes exercise * provides alternatives to negative environments

Counselling Services: assists clients with day to day personal and emotion struggles * Inuit Residential School Program provides support to former IRS students and their families.

Community Support Program, Drop In (297 Savard Ave): supportive environment attempting to duplicate the community spirit and cultural surrounding of the Inuit homelands * socialization opportunities * settlement services, housing assistance and information and referral to legal, medical and social services * Interpretation services and assistance in obtaining non-insured health benefits * weekly Inuit women's healing circle * men's group and Community Kitchen, Weekly Food Bank

Housing Support Services (297 Savard Ave): housing-based case management program for clients who are chronically or episodically homeless * general Housing assistance * crisis intervention services

Inuit Court and Justice Programs (604 Laurier West): offers supports to Inuit involved with the legal system. Restorative Justice model and Gladue Services

Exiting Sex Trade/Anti Human Trafficking Program (604 Laurier West): offers support to Inuit involved in the sex trade being trafficked or at risk in a harm reduction model

Employment Services (1071 Richmond Rd): assistance with writing resumes, cover letters, finding employment or training assists in the removal of barriers in the road to long-term employment

Cultural Programming : Cultural events and activities throughout the year * Inuit craft workshops * Elders Tea