White Buffalo Aboriginal and Metis Health Society

White Buffalo Aboriginal and Metis Health Society White Buffalo is a non profit society dedicated to the health and social well-being for Urban First Nations, Inuit and Métis individuals and families.

MISSION STATEMENT

White Buffalo Aboriginal and Metis Health Society is a non profit society dedicated to the advancement and promotion of health and social well-being for Urban First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FMI) individuals, families and community; on local, regional and provincial levels. OUR GOALS

Advance First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples as decision makers in their health and soci

al well being. Strengthen capacity through program development, direct service delivery and relevant research initiatives. Advocate for systematic transformative change to improve the health and social conditions of Metis, First Nations, and Urban peoples. Sustain and development meaningful partnerships with other key stakeholders and other relevant parties. Take a leadership role in facilitating collaborative approaches for planning, service delivery and evaluation of Urban FMI Health and Social programs and services. Build upon the gifts and wisdom of FMI cultures to ensure that they are recognized as valuable, distinctive and beautiful. Promote pride in ancestry, history and cultural reclamation.

Address

517A Tranquille Road
Kamloops, BC
V2B3H3

General information

White Buffalo Aboriginal and Metis Health Society has been in operation since June 2003. How it started: It was identified by Aboriginal women that the community did not demonstrate services that met the needs to support and heal Aboriginal Women, thus White Buffalo Aboriginal Women's Society and Resource Center was developed from those conversations and further visioning between Urban Aboriginal and Metis leaders who took the next step in developing the society name and searching funding sources to support and meet the needs of Aboriginal Women in Kamloops White Buffalo's conception arrived out of a 2002 vision to enhance and improve services for Aboriginal women and began as a gender specific service provider. The agency began its journey of service provision by focusing on gender specific issues and healing strategies for Aboriginal Women. Through the successful visioning to conception of the society; Aboriginal Women were empowered to speak and trust their words would be heard, they asked for improved services; such as what they themselves were receiving through White Buffalo and to ask the society to expand its services to further positively impact children, youth, men, parents and extended families. White Buffalo Women's Society and Resource Center listened and expanded their service delivery scope and title to progress to White Buffalo Aboriginal Health and Resource Society to encompass holistic traditional and western practices in servicing individuals and whole family compositions. In 2012, the political titles and terms of Aboriginal required a defining of the agency title to ensure that all Aboriginal peoples were identified through inclusion within the title thus bringing our agency name to today's White Buffalo Aboriginal and Metis Health Society where we continue to empower, strengthen, lead and advocate for all individuals, children, adults and families in Kamloops and surrounding area.

Opening Hours

Monday 08:30 - 16:30
Tuesday 08:30 - 16:30
Wednesday 08:30 - 16:30
Thursday 08:30 - 16:30
Friday 08:30 - 16:30

Telephone

250-554-1176

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