White Raven Healing Centre
While honouring Treaty and inherent rights to health, White Raven Healing Centre encourages hope, builds kinship, and models wellness for all people. We offer support for self-healing through language, ceremony, tradition, and culture. We work in unity with health care providers for those we serve within the 11 member First Nations of FHQTC.
THE VISION of the White Raven Healing Centre is to provide client-centered mental health and addictions services that integrates the best of mainstream therapeutic techniques with traditional First Nation healing practices to provide a wholistic approach to heal from past traumatic experiences and current psychological issues.
OUR MISSION is to promote guiding principles that will encourage open communication with all individuals, families and communities. Our primary focus is to provide traditional and conventional counselling designed to address the legacy of intergenerational impacts of residential schools and unresolved trauma and family violence.
THE WHITE RAVEN HEALING CENTRE was obtained through a traditional naming ceremony and was named by the Grandmother Spirit, White Raven, the head Grandmother who sits in the West.
White Raven Healing Centre provides an integrated approach to self-healing with a focus on holistic mental health and wellness programming. This combined approach balances both contemporary and non-Indigenous therapeutic techniques with traditional healing practices to facilitate individual healing from past traumatic experiences and current inter-generational impacts and effects. The Centre’s programming addresses traumatic experiences and current mental health challenges such as addictions, mental health impacts from residential school, day school, 60s scoop, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG), and more.
How White Raven Healing Centre Got Its Name
In 2003, White Raven Healing Centre was established and was first known as the Shared Vision Healing Centre. When the Centre moved to the new All Nations Healing Hospital, it was called All Nations Healing Centre. However, a traditional naming ceremony for the Centre was held on February 14, 2007. The White Raven head grandmother spirit who sits in the west came with the new name “White Raven Healing Centre.”
In 2003, White Raven Healing Centre was established and was first known as the Shared Vision Healing Centre. When the Centre moved to the new All Nations Healing Hospital, it was called All Nations Healing Centre. However, a traditional naming ceremony for the Centre was held on February 14, 2007. The White Raven head grandmother spirit who sits in the west came with the new name “White Raven Healing Centre.”
Vision
We envision a world where traditional Indigenous ways of wellness and healing are accessible to all, and where language, spirituality, culture, and tradition are the foundation of self-care.
Mission
White Raven Healing Centre instills hope, builds kinship, and promotes wellness for all people. We support self-healing through language, ceremony, tradition, and culture while partnering with health care and mental health providers to encourage integrated services.
Core Values
- Trust: We are honest and honour those we serve by acting with integrity and confidentiality.
- Courage: We strive to support identity and confidence toward the achievement of self-care and self-respect.
- Kinship: We are all family. We all belong.
- Humility: We are on this journey of self-discovery and have much to learn from one another.
