Working to Empower Indigenous Well-being
At Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre, we believe in Indigenous Health in Indigenous Hands.
We are a diverse and dynamic multiservice Indigenous health and wellness agency. We strive to provide quality, wholistic health services by sharing and promoting traditional and western health practices to enable people to live in a more balanced state of well-being.
When you join SOAHAC, you are joining a team of over 150 committed and passionate professionals specializing in primary care, mental health, traditional healing, Woman's Wellness, dentistry, and other service areas who ensure health services are accessible, of high quality, and are culturally appropriate to Indigenous peoples across Southwestern Ontario.
We have locations in Chippewa of the Thames (Muncey), London, Owen Sound, Newbury, Waterloo Wellington and Windsor, and serve the communities of Aamjiwnaang First Nation, Caldwell First Nation, Eelünaapéewi Lahkéewiit (Delaware Nation at Moraviantown), Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, Munsee-Delaware Nation, Oneida Nation of the Thames, Neyaashiinigmiing (Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation), Saugeen First Nation (Chippewas of Saugeen) and Walpole Island First Nation.
We aim to empower Indigenous families and individuals to live a balanced state of well-being through our work.
All staff positions support the mission statement of the Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre, and align with the following belief statements:
- We affirm that SOAHAC’s primary responsibility is for the wellbeing of Indigenous people in our service area
- Healing is empowerment that facilitates the reemergence of the Creative Mind, the Spirit and an Agile body
- SOAHAC provides a healing environment of acceptance and cooperation that nourishes each person with dignity, security, love and renewal
- SOAHAC sets the example of healing and wellness that starts within its own walls, including its board and staff members
- The establishment of all programs and projects affirm the principles and goals of this organization
- SOAHAC is a culture-based organization dedicated to the wellness of Indigenous communities
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