PROGRAMS & services

The Community Action Program for Children (CAPC) supports families with children ages 0-6. Its goals are:

• ​To inform parents and children of obesity and diabetes complications and to teach good nutrition through good eating habits, physical activity, food safety and traditional/cultural foods.

• To provide traditional teachings and healing methods to address physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being for families and to end social isolation through parent/child relationship building.

• To use traditional teachings to teach healthy child development.

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The Canada Prenatal and Nutrition Program's (CPNP (ages 0-2)) goals are:

• To strengthen a positive cultural identity through culture awareness.

• To increase knowledge and awareness of healthy pre an postnatal nutrition for parents and children.

• To provide, promote and improve the health of pre and postnatal mothers by encouraging physical activity and play.

• To increase awareness for pre and postnatal mothers about child development and child rearing.

The Anti-Human Trafficking Liaison​

• Builds capacity in survivors, community and agencies

• Ensures survivor led strategies and initiatives

• Nurtures survivor resilience and strengthen Indigenous women's leadership

• Develops educational resources

• Advocates and supports

• Systems navigation

• Increases awareness of Indigenous Human Trafficking through workshops, presentations and training across sectors

Ambe Tigadaw: Let's Grow Together is an Indigenous community garden collective created to address food insecurity and build capacity to develop, understand and coordinate local food production for the First Nations, Métis and Inuit community. 

The Indigenous Parenting Program provides Indigenous individuals and families with community-based support services aimed to build resilience. The program provides early intervention supports to children and their families to improve child development, increase education and capacity in caregivers, and enhance overall well-being. All elements of the program are grounded in Indigenous culture and traditions. 

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Indigenous families with at least one child who resides in Orillia, Barrie, or Midland are welcome to join our program.

This program supports Indigenous women in a culturally rooted, holistic way, so that they are better able to navigate through the complex systems encountered when experiencing involvement with child welfare. The Program supports Indigenous women to create, build upon, and share their “bundles” and provides safe spaces, tailored to the individual woman and their family.