Bed-Based Treatment - Substance Use
Bed-Based Treatment - Mental Health
Ka-Na-Chi-Hih is a 6-bed, 7-week bed-based treatment program for individuals with polysubstance use and/or mental health challenges. The program serves First Nations, rotating male and female intakes, regardless of gender identity, from across Canada. The programming is holistic as we follow the medicine wheel as a guide in achieving physical, mental, social, and spiritual goals and needs.
The program incorporates traditional modes of practice during the 7-week stay, elders attend the lodge to provide knowledge, skills, and teachings. Some common examples of traditional programming include drum making, ribbon skirt/dress shirt making, smudges, sharing circles, sweat lodges, and much more.
Management and staff are all trained to follow a strengths-based, trauma-informed, harm-reduction approach while being a mentor to participants. This means helping the residents to understand their internal and external strengths, safe decision-making that creates a healthy and safe environment, and adapting the healing lodge rules to be flexible to residents’ traumas and needs while they heal during their 7-week stay.
Referrals are accepted by self or others. Please call or email to make a referral.
The centralized intake worker will follow-up with pre-treatment interviews and maintain contact while on the waitlist.
Travel can be self-directed but if travel is a financial barrier, the program can complete an application for Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) to assist with travel for admission and travel upon graduation.
Priority given to members from Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) communities.
Ka-Na-Chi-Hih Healing Lodge
1700 Dease Street
Thunder Bay
Ka-Na-Chi-Hih Healing Lodge
Main Hours: Open 24/7
Phone: 1-807-627-3524
Toll Free: 1-888-863-1560
FAX: 1-807-789-9803