For the past 25 years, the Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (SOAHAC) has proudly been serving First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples across southwestern Ontario. SOAHAC is part of a group of AHACs that were first announced in Ontario in 1995 in response to epidemic, systemic health disparities and inequities within the Indigenous population across Ontario. AHACs operate from a wholistic Indigenous health framework which is often referred to by Indigenous people as “the good life” or as restoring the “good mind.” The framework focuses on the restoration and rebalancing of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of Indigenous people, families, communities and Nations, and understands “culture as treatment.”

SOAHAC has been part of many system changes over the past few decades and where much has changed there is still much to be done. Your genortity will help us continue to make a difference for our clients and communities across the region.