The Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy combines traditional and mainstream programs and services to help improve Aboriginal health and reduce family violence.

These community-based programs and services are available to Aboriginal people living on-reserve and in urban and rural communities and include:

• community wellness programs
• Aboriginal Healthy Babies, Healthy Children Program
• counselling to address mental and emotional issues
• crisis intervention services
• healing lodges
• health care, health promotion and education
• shelters and safe houses for women escaping domestic violence and their children
• pre and post-natal care
• substance-abuse treatment centres

The Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy is a joint program between the Ontario government and 14 First Nations and Aboriginal organizations. The following Ontario government ministries fund the strategy:

• Children and Youth Services
• Community and Social Services
• Health and Long-Term Care
• Aboriginal Affairs
• Ontario Women's Directorate