Our Story
In 2020, a significant gap in culturally relevant mental health, addiction, and trauma-based supports for local Indigenous populations was identified. In response, a community needs analysis was conducted, and the findings clearly demonstrated a strong need for culturally specific services designed, developed, and delivered by Indigenous service providers for Indigenous individuals, families, and communities.
Community members emphasized that the very things taken through colonization and assimilation — culture, land, ceremony, and language — are the same elements needed for healing and reconnection.
Since the completion of this needs analysis, the Mashkiwizii Manido Foundation has remained committed to addressing these identified needs by offering culturally grounded programs and services rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, healing, and being. Since 2020, Mashkiwizii Manido Foundation has grown into a federally recognized not-for-profit corporation dedicated to supporting Indigenous wellness and community care.
As the organization continues to expand, so does the demand for programming and services. We have recently relocated into a significantly larger space that includes a full kitchen to support feasting and community gatherings, expanded counselling spaces, a meeting and crafting room, and a dedicated circle and workshop area. We also continue to strengthen and expand partnerships that support land-based programming and cultural healing opportunities.
Mashkiwizii Manido Foundation has implemented the only Wellbriety Recovery Program within Renfrew County and the surrounding Algonquin Territory and has recently expanded services to include Indigenous-informed palliative care programming and supports.
Our network of partnerships continues to grow as businesses, organizations, and institutions seek meaningful ways to move forward in authentic relationship building with Indigenous Peoples through the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action. Many organizations have included the Mashkiwizii Manido Foundation within their ReconciliACTION plans, creating opportunities for cultural learning, awareness, relationship building, and community engagement for their teams and the broader community.
We remain deeply grateful for the ongoing support of our community partners, supporters, Elders, Knowledge holders, volunteers, and collaborators who continue to walk alongside us in this work. We also look forward to building new relationships and partnerships rooted in respect, reciprocity, and reconciliation.
If you are interested in learning more about our workshops, trainings, cultural teachings, the Kairos Blanket Exercise, or ways to support economic reconciliation and Indigenous-led initiatives, we welcome you to connect with us.
Community members emphasized that the very things taken through colonization and assimilation — culture, land, ceremony, and language — are the same elements needed for healing and reconnection.
Since the completion of this needs analysis, the Mashkiwizii Manido Foundation has remained committed to addressing these identified needs by offering culturally grounded programs and services rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, healing, and being. Since 2020, Mashkiwizii Manido Foundation has grown into a federally recognized not-for-profit corporation dedicated to supporting Indigenous wellness and community care.
As the organization continues to expand, so does the demand for programming and services. We have recently relocated into a significantly larger space that includes a full kitchen to support feasting and community gatherings, expanded counselling spaces, a meeting and crafting room, and a dedicated circle and workshop area. We also continue to strengthen and expand partnerships that support land-based programming and cultural healing opportunities.
Mashkiwizii Manido Foundation has implemented the only Wellbriety Recovery Program within Renfrew County and the surrounding Algonquin Territory and has recently expanded services to include Indigenous-informed palliative care programming and supports.
Our network of partnerships continues to grow as businesses, organizations, and institutions seek meaningful ways to move forward in authentic relationship building with Indigenous Peoples through the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action. Many organizations have included the Mashkiwizii Manido Foundation within their ReconciliACTION plans, creating opportunities for cultural learning, awareness, relationship building, and community engagement for their teams and the broader community.
We remain deeply grateful for the ongoing support of our community partners, supporters, Elders, Knowledge holders, volunteers, and collaborators who continue to walk alongside us in this work. We also look forward to building new relationships and partnerships rooted in respect, reciprocity, and reconciliation.
If you are interested in learning more about our workshops, trainings, cultural teachings, the Kairos Blanket Exercise, or ways to support economic reconciliation and Indigenous-led initiatives, we welcome you to connect with us.