Services

• Secure 24/7 live-in facility that provides services, enhanced programming, and supervision
• Enforcement of court-ordered conditions, as required
• Support residents with reintegration plans, in partnership with the Bail Verification and Supervision Program at NAN Legal
• One-on-one sessions weekly with IBBP worker to monitor and facilitate goal-setting and care plans and track the participant’s progress
• Provide links to community programs and/or support transition back to home communities
• Weekly programming, including health/wellbeing services
• Referrals for mental health and addictions services
• Discharge support upon their exit of the residential program

 

Fire Keeper Patrol

Street outreach program focused on supporting urban Indigenous members experiencing homelessness, substance use/addiction, and mental health issues in Timmins. Focused on creating internal and external linkages to necessary trauma-informed, harm reduction-centered, and culturally responsive supports.

 

Location: 316 Spruce Street South, Timmins

Contact: 705-406-5004/705-406-5117

Hours: Drop in – 8AM-12AM daily, Outreach – 8AM-12AM daily

 

Program goal: Reduce the number of urban Indigenous members experiencing homelessness and link them to programs/supports that assist them in securing sustainable housing.

Services:

• Coffee Program: 8:30AM – 9:30AM daily
• Mental health support – referrals
• Client Advocacy
• Transportation to medical appointments
• Hygiene kits
• Sacred Fire with Timmins Native Friendship Centre weekly
• Trauma supports

Indigenous Cross-Cultural Awareness Program

Objective: To increase safe Indigenous cross-cultural correspondence

Services: Facilitate training to improve knowledge of cultural and trauma-informed practices for professionals within Timmins.

Location: 101 Cedar St. South, Timmins

 

Training content:

• Introduction to Indigenous culture
• History of reconciliation in Canada
• Understanding of terminology, labels, and classifications of Indigenous Peoples
• Understanding cultural survival and cultural exchange, life-long impacts of residential school history
• Teachings of traditional knowledge from Knowledge Keepers, Elders, residential stories
• Cultural humility, cultural contingency, and key drivers of change
• Addressing racism in the workplace and in society
• 10 principles of reconciliation, building, connecting, and belonging
• Introduction to the Doctrine of Discovery, Hudson’s Bay Company Fur Trade, Treaty 9, residential institutions, Day School, 60s Scoop, the Indian Program, land rights, and more

 

Victim Services

Objective: To provide culturally relevant services to victims of crime within the James Bay and Hudson Bay Region communities and to increase awareness about victimization and access to services, safety, and security.

The program partners with police services and other emergency services.

Contact: for after hour emergencies only 1-877-264-4208

Location: Moose Factory

Services:

• Basic counselling
• Referrals to appropriate community resources
• Assessments
• Safety and treatment/healing planning
• Case management
• Victim Quick Response Program (VQRP)
• Support and assistance for victims and witnesses involved in the court process.
• Community education and awareness

 

Eligibility: The Victims Services Program offers integrated, cohesive, and safe services to victims of:

• Sexual assault
• Domestic violence
• Elder abuse
• Criminal harassment
• Homicide
• Death notification
• Break and enter
• Human trafficking
• Other crime-related occurrences

 

Restorative Justice

A holistic approach to justice focused on addressing the harm caused by crime and meeting the needs of those involved.

Provide services to Mushkegowuk First Nations in the coordination, planning, development and implementation of a sustainable restorative justice program and services.

 

Responsibilities:

• Improve access to diversion programming (alternative sentencing)
• Provide awareness of the Land-based and addiction-related diversion programming
• Administer diversion program funding
• Develop a resource directory

Pre-charge: Pre-charge diversion programming is a service for an offence diverted to a restorative justice program before charges are laid. The process starts when a NAPS officer has reasonable grounds to believe that an offence is appropriate for pre-charge diversion programming and may refer the offence to a local restorative justice program.

 

In restorative justice circles, the goal is to reach an agreement within which the offender agrees to take a course of action to repair the harm caused to the victim. If the offender is successful in meeting the conditions set by the circle, the matter is closed. If not, the matter is referred to the referring party for potential charges of the offences committed.

FASD (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder) Justice Support

Location: 101 Cedar St. South, Timmins

Contact: 705-288-7610

Objective: Provide comprehensive services to Indigenous people who may be affected by FASD or who have a confirmed diagnosis of FASD; ensure better access to assessments for FASD, and support clients in navigating the criminal justice system.

Goals:

• Identify and develop support systems for the community and members with FASD
• Establish a plan of care alongside Restorative Justice and Victim Services to assist with justice proceedings

 

Raise awareness of FASD in the Mushkegowuk Region and consult with each First Nation to identify gaps in FASD prevention and awareness