Imagine a place where Indigenous women can come and do their healing and receive treatment for addictions AND they can still live with their children. The Minwaashin Family Lodge will provide Indigenous women with the opportunity to be in safe place for up to six months, without fear of losing their children to child welfare and be in a culturally based, trauma informed place to do their recovery work. The children will also have the opportunity to be counselled, loved, and supported as their mother restores her health. 

We are grateful to the City of Ottawa who is contributing the land to build this Lodge.