Walking Stick Community Support Program
Walking Stick is a community support program that assists adults affected with FASD and other disorders, who also face multiple health and safety challenges. While these individuals face many difficulties, they also possess strengths, abilities, and potential that are often overlooked or underestimated. We provide tailored care and support to help them reconnect with their abilities and navigate their challenges more effectively.
The Walking Stick Program aims to cultivate a restorative environment grounded in cultural practices and traditional teachings of respect, support, and empathy for individuals, families, and the community.
This approach emphasizes peaceful and collaborative forms of care and support, fostering reconnection with all four aspects of an individual’s well-being: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, as guided by the Medicine Wheel.
Examples of supports the Walking Stick Community Program provides are:
- Consistent case management,
- Outreach support,
- Maintaining connections and healthy relationships,
- Securing and maintaining safe housing,
- Acquiring income and assisting with finances,
- Navigating and understanding the justice system,
- Transport and environmental accommodations,
- Assisting with medical & treatment regiments,
- Supporting reconciliation when conflicts arise, and
- Traditional and cultural healing activities,
Program Eligibility:
- Lives in Winnipeg,
- 16 Years of age or older,
- A diagnosis of FAS, pFAS, ARND or documented history of probable prenatal exposure to alcohol,
- Other mental health or co-occurring issues,
- Eligible for Government funded supports
For more information, contact:
Administrative Coordinator
[email protected]
Download the Referral Form below.