Manitoba’s Native Addictions Council gets over $21.6M from the province
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The province is contributing more than $21.6 million towards the redevelopment of the Native Addictions Council of Manitoba building in Winnipeg's North End.
The province is contributing more than $21.6 million towards the redevelopment of the Native Addictions Council of Manitoba building in Winnipeg’s North End. Kevin Lamoureux, member of Parliament for Winnipeg North, and Theresa Crow, executive director of the Native Addictions Council of Manitoba, announced Tuesday.
The money will support the redevelopment of the current facility as an addiction centre serving the Indigenous population of Manitoba.
“The opioid crisis is out of hand and we have so many reserves and isolated communities that there’s a lot of easy access to opioids,” Crow told Global News.
“Addiction is the outcome of something that’s happening in our hearts and so that grief and that pain that people don’t have access to talking to somebody, or processing that grief… At the end of the day, addiction is just the end result of something that’s not resolved in people’s lives.”
The council provides many services to people seeking help with addiction.
“We have an in-house healing program. It’s a six-week program and it’s a land base.” Crow said.
“We do men’s cycles and women’s cycles and we have 50 acres. We do medicine picking, we have a ceremony, we have two sweats, we have a detox sweat, and then we have a ceremony called Calling back or Calling back our spirit.”
Crow said they also have a day program available for those who can’t stay; it runs a few days a week.