Aboriginal Health & Wellness Centre

Reports of a substance sold as DOWN that is fluorescent green and light pink, causing people to overdose from a minuscule amount

Get your drugs checked:
Nine Circles, 705 Broadway Ave
Street Connections, 496 Hargrave St
@getyourdrugstested — Anonymous fee-based mail-in service

Harm reduction is an evidence-based, client-centred approach that seeks to reduce the health & social harms associated with addiction & substance use. Harm reduction is life-saving & happens every day! Hear from folks saving lives every day.

#HarmReduction #PWUD

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The Aboriginal Health & Wellness Centre of Winnipeg is accepting applications from qualified persons for the Registered Nurse 0.4 EFT TERM position.

Details here: ahwc.ca/now-hiring-r...

#NowHiring #Nurses

What are Supervised Consumption Sites?

A Supervised Consumption Site (SCS) is a place where people can use drugs in a supervised and hygienic environment to reduce the harm from substance use while offering additional services such as counselling, social work, and substance use treatment referrals.

What Are Overdose Prevention Sites?

An Overdose Prevention Site (OPS) is a place where people can use their own illicit drugs, access sterile harm reduction equipment, and receive emergency overdose response as needed.

#HarmReduction #OverDosePrevention #SafeConsumptionSites

Drug alerts are a way to inform the community when there is a particularly bad batch of drugs; they are shared online, as well as on posters and handbills placed where people who use drugs will see them, such as clinics and community organizations.

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Narcan (brand name) or Naloxone (generic name) is a medication that is used to reverse opioid poisoning/ overdose.

It has no known adverse side effects, so everyone can feel safe using it.

#HarmReduction #PWUD #SavingLives

Concerned about your or a loved one’s substance use?
NORS is here anonymously to lend an ear & support you with no judgement or shame. They understand the complexities that arise as relationships with substance use become more complicated. Learn more: www.nors.ca

@safeconsmptionsite.bsky.social

We are in a drug toxicity crisis where the contents of drugs are unpredictable and often unknown. A tool we can use to help avoid drug poisoning (a.k.a. overdose) is to use drug checking services.

Hundreds of people are still dying each year from harms associated with overdoses. Harm reduction practices, like #SupervisedConsumptionSites, are saving lives every day across Canada.

#SupportSCS #HarmReduction @safeconsmptionsite.bsky.social

Coming Soon! Canada’s First Indigenous-led Safer Consumption Site
What does an Indigenous-Led Safer Consumption Site Look Like?

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#HarmReduction #OverdosePrevention #SCSSavesLives

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (1656–1680) was the first Indigenous person in North America to be canonized by the Catholic Church. Tekakwitha was a Kanyen’kehà:ka woman who was baptized into the Catholic Church.

#NIHM #IndigenousHistoryMonth

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Jeanette Corbiere Lavell (Keewednanung, “North Star” ) is an Anishinaabe activist, educator & community worker who challenged discrimination against Indigenous women in the Indian Act

#NIHM #IndigenousHistoryMonth

Learn more: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/j...

Harry Daniels (1940–2004) was a Métis politician & leader. He worked towards the recognition of the rights of Métis people. Daniels served as president of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples 1976-1981 and again from 1997 to 2000.

Continue reading: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/h...

Harold Cardinal (1945–2005) was a Cree chief & leader who is best known for being a leader in the movement against the White Paper. In 1968, he was elected president of the Indian Association of Alberta.

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Gabriel Dumont, a Métis leader (1837 – 1906), rose to political prominence in an age of declining buffalo herds. He fought for decades for the economic prosperity and political independence of his people.

#NIHM #IndigenousHistoryMonth

Keep reading: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/d...

Dr. Marcia Anderson, MD is Cree-Anishinaabe and grew up in the North End of Winnipeg. She has family roots in the Norway House Cree Nation and Peguis First Nation in Manitoba.

Keep Reading: umanitoba.ca/ongomiizwin/...

Catherine Sutton (1824–1865) was an Anishinaabe writer, missionary & advocate for rights of Indigenous peoples. She fought for the rights of women, like herself, who had their Indian Status taken from them for marrying non-status people.
Learn more: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/c...

Murray Sinclair (Mizanay (Mizhana) Gheezhik; 1951 – 2024) was a member of the Senate and a First Nations lawyer who served as chairman of the groundbreaking Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2009 to 2015.

Keep reading: www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...

Larry Morrissette was committed to Wpg's Indigenous community & to all those creating transformative change in Wpg's inner city. He was the Executive Director of Ogijiita Pimatiswin Kinamatwin (OPK), a co-founder of Children of the Earth High School
#NIHM

Keep reading: policyfix.ca/2016/09/22/r...

When Bernelda Wheeler, (1937 – 2005), took the microphone, she was instantly a revolutionary voice on the radio.

Wheeler was one of the hosts of Our Native Land, a CBC Radio program by and for Indigenous people that ran from 1965 to 1985.

Learn more: www.cbc.ca/radio/secret...

When Bernelda Wheeler, (1937 – 2005), took the microphone, she was instantly a revolutionary voice on the radio
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Wheeler was one of the hosts of Our Native Land, a CBC Radio program by and for Indigenous people that ran from 1965 to 1985.

Learn more: www.cbc.ca/radio/secret...

Nikki Komaksiutiksak was named as the new president and CEO of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada in March 2025.

In her professional life, Komaksiutiksak has always worked in some capacity for non-profit Indigenous organizations.

#NIHM

Keep reading: nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

Métis Doctor Janet Smylie is the Director of Well Living House Action Research Centre for Indigenous Infant, Child, & Family Health & Wellbeing, Canada Research Chair in Advancing Generative Health Services for Indigenous Populations

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The #OverdosePreventionSite provides a supervised, safe, comfortable & “homey” place for vulnerable individuals to consume drugs & access #HarmReduction supplies. This federally funded initiative runs out of a converted RV.

#SCS #MOPS #OverdosePrevention @safeconsmptionsite.bsky.social

Lillian Dyck, OC, scholar, feminist, senator, advocate for Indigenous rights. Lillian was the 1st Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD in science. And was the first Indigenous female senator

#nihm2025 #canadaindigenoushistorymonth

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Innu Surgeon Dr. Stanley Vollant from Pessamit grew up along the St. Lawrence in Quebec. From an early age, he learned strong community values through the traditional teachings of his grandfather

#nihm2025 #canadaindigenoushistorymonth

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Nov/14, after surviving a violent assault at 16, Harper rose to prominence in nat'l media as an advocate for victims of violence. She called for a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada...

#canadaindigenoushistorymonth
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Lisa Meeches is one of the most dynamic & respected producers in the film & TV industry & a proud #Ojibway from Long Plain First Nation. Ms. Meeches has produced numerous projects to critical acclaim. Including more than 150 hours of THE SHARING CIRCLE...
Learn more: www.allaccessmb.com/lisa-meeches

Leonard Stephen "Len" Marchand PC CM OBC (November 16, 1933 – June 3, 2016) was a Canadian politician. He was the first person of #FirstNations status to serve in the federal cabinet...

#nihm2025 #canadaindigenoushistorymonth

Learn more: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...