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askikan land based
HEALING AND DETOX

The Land Based Detox and Healing Program is a specialized program that provides land-based healing and residential treatment services to support addictions and recovery. The program is designed for Indigenous youth and adults 16+ who struggle with mental health and addictions through traditional guidance and reconnecting to the lands.

 

Land-Based Treatment and Healing can take place when we return or reconnect to the land by relearning, revitalizing and reclaiming our traditional wellness practices. The land is foundational to our Indigenous identity, but over generations of colonization we have been disconnected and dispossessed from our traditional territories.   

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The program involves a seven (7) day detoxification through the integration of traditional medicines and land-based healing. This process helps to remove a substance of dependency through the body that is guided and delivered by trained Indigenous professionals.

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Detoxification presents an opportunity for participants to become stabilized while serving as a way to prepare and permit participants to fully embrace rehabilitative treatment. Participants work with each other and staff throughout the 7-day program that is guided by Residential Workers, a Harm Reduction Nurse, Traditional Healers, and counsellors to help participants explore key factors such as :

  • Self-identity

  • Family dynamics

  • Barriers to healing

  • Intergenerational impacts

  • Trauma

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The program uses a wholistic approach to care, as the goal is to promote self-discovery and personal growth amongst participants to understand and value the importance of balance and harmony within their lives through the use of the Medicine Wheel and Grandfather teachings. 
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Our Land Based Detox and Healing program is offered in partnership with Niwakomakanak Organization

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Providing wholistic health and wellness services is described as:  

 

Focusing on individual wellbeing in the areas of: physical, mental, spiritual, emotional health.

 

Land-based wellness is founded on the principle of providing culturally-based health services to help guide individuals to whole wellness. 

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Facilities & Services â€‹

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  • 10 bed lodge - shared living accommodations 

  • Classroom for group work & activities 

  • Traditional cultural grounds 

  • Non-Insured Health Benefit travel 

  • Trauma-informed care 

  • One-on-one counselling

  • Traditional medicines for detoxification

  • Story telling

  • Vision boards 

  • Self-care activities 

  • Connection to the land 

  • Foot soaks 

  • Ceremonies 

  • 24/7 On-site nurse 

  • After-care service will soon be available 

what are participants saying
ABOUT THE PROGRAM?

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KYLE MARTIN

I want to help and inspire people to get sober. I'm living proof that [...] wounds can heal if you keep at it

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LORETTA TAPAS

I am happy today. I am growing. I AM ALIVE.

You, too, can feel life again and it feels good.

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ANONYMOUS YOUTH

The staff was helpful in many ways and taught me that it’s okay to have dreams , advocate my own voice and to reach out when difficult times occur

 2024 Program Dates: â€‹

  • October 17 - 23, 2024

  • November 28 - December 4, 2024

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2025 Program Dates:

  • January 10-16, 2025

  • February 8-14, 2025

  • May 12-18, 2025

  • June 8-14, 2025

  • July 12, 2025

  • August 24-30, 2025

  • September 27-October 3, 2025

  • November 2-8, 2025

  • December 5-11, 2025

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Location

1108 Genier Road, Cochrane, ON

Site phone number: 705-272-1343

For more information about the Land Based Detox and Healing Program, please contact: DougDavey@mushkegowuk.ca or SummerRickard@mushkegowuk.ca

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