No One Gets Left Behind
At Niigaaniin, we provide for and serve the people who need us most.
We help our communities to honour their gifts and live their lives in a good way.
Moving Forward
Improving services, adapting to community needs
and evolving as an organization is how Niigaaniin aims to lead.
Our Communities
Our services are designed to serve the eight communities of the North Shore.
Niigaaniin believes in a collaborative, wrap around approach to care plans and service agreements
to help our Community Members.
Our Mission
Niigaaniin Services mission is to utilize existing knowledge and our strengths
to create a culturally safe space for healing, recovery, learning and reconciliation.
What Is NIIGAANIIN?
Moving Forward.
Niigaaniin Services is a leader and trail blazer in social service delivery. Collaboration is at the heart of everything at Niigaaniin Services. Our Communities and our People are stronger together. Niigaaniin Services mission is to utilize existing knowledge and our strengths to create a culturally safe space for healing, recovery, learning and reconciliation.
SERVICES
Aaniish Naa
The core services include:
• One to One Counselling
• Specialized Group Programs
• Case Management Services
• Advocacy Services
Mino Bimaadizidaa
Designed to promote and encourage living well, skill building, traditional Anishinaabe knowledge and culture with land-based learning opportunities.
Anishinaabemowin
Anishinaabemowin is rooted in cultural, spiritual, and practical significance for the Our People. The language is a vital to our identity and heritage. It carries the traditions, stories, and wisdom of the ancestors, preserving the community’s history and cultural practices.
Service Ontario
Located in Serpent River First Nation within the Trading Post. A mobile unit is also used that visits communities in the Robinson Huron Treaty area with a focus on the communities of Mamaweswen the North Shore Tribal Council.
Ontario Works
Niigaaniin has changed how Ontario Works is delivered in our First Nations. Providing financial and employment assistance, and addiction services, though Kindness, Truth, Sharing and Strength.
Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
Once accessible only outside of First Nation communities, Niigaaniin has grown to provide the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) within our First Nations.
Enji-maawinjidiyaang
Indigenous Friendship Centre
Empowering Indigenous Connections, Celebrating Indigenous Culture. Aside from the general visits, programming includes various activities and learning opportunities.
Kinoomaagewin
Kinoomaagewin is about letting the land lead you, learning from it and the lessons the land offers. Kinoomaagewin is more than a specific site or place. It is everywhere. It is nature, but much more. It is rooted in Aanishnabe traditional practices.
Endayaan Endazhi-takookiiyaan
A fully developed service model that places Indigenous families at the centre of the Healing Journey. Strong families, strong relationships and traditional knowledge allow us to work with our community members at our land-based site, in camp style cohorts.
