NIITOIYIS
FAMILY SUPPORT SOCIETY
ABOUT
NIITOIYIS
NURTURING FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS ON THEIR HEALING JOURNEY
To provide shelter and community services, guided by Indigenous traditional teachings, to anyone affected by family violence and abuse. To provide a broad continuum of support services, guided by Indigenous traditional teachings, that include prevention, intervention, and healing to anyone affected by any form of abuse.
OUR SERVICES
Protection and support against family violence and all form of abuse. Niitoiyis Family Support Society (formerly Awo Taan Healing Lodge Society) is a 32-bed, full service emergency shelter that provides services to women and children from all cultures.
Our shelter operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There are on-site and on-call Wellness Workers 24 hours a day. Women and children stay at the shelter for a period of up to three weeks. If shelter is required beyond that period, clients may arrange for an extended stay or are referred to other agencies. Niitoiyis Family Support Society supports clients with the resources to help ensure they do not return to an abusive situation. Appropriately named “Niitoiyis”, which has been defined to us by Elders as "Safe home/real home" in the Blackfoot language, the shelter is blanketed in a unique atmosphere where the traditional wholistic and spiritual teachings of the Indigenous people’s Medicine Wheel are practiced.
The Niitoiyis Family Support Society is dedicated to supporting the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual healing and wellbeing of women during their time of crisis and beyond. The shelter offers a full range of in-house crisis and outreach crisis, healing, and prevention programs. There is also a children’s program to ensure each child’s emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual healing and wellbeing are supported as well.
SERVICES
The heartbeat of Niitoiyis Family Support Society is our shelter facility, a place of refuge, healing, and hope for vulnerable women
and their children in times of crisis. The shelter provides basic needs and housing for up to 32 people for a 3-week period.
In addition to meeting basic needs, Niitoiyis Family Support Society works to help clients escape cycles of violence or abuse.
Our Wellness Workers provide support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to connect our clients to further support and guidance.
Emergency shelter
At the core of our programs is Family Violence Prevention. Niitoiyis Family Support Society works to stop family violence and all abuse, then we provide the necessary support to help our clients find security, and finally, our ultimate goal, is to guide affected people to empower change in their own lives.
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24 Hour Crisis Line
(403) 531-1972
24 Hour Text Line
(403) 875-4512
eQUALLY SAFE response team
(dcrt)
A collaboration between community agencies and Calgary Police Services (CPS). The service is provided through the Early Intervention Outreach Program and Equally Safe Response Team. The program serves individuals and families who come through the Calgary Police Domestic Conflict Unit.
Volunteer & Careers
Join Niitoiyis Family Support Society and become part of our team.
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Are you interested in a unique opportunity working with Niitoiyis Family Support Society to make a difference in Calgary?
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Please forward resumes with a cover letter to:
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c/o: Selection Committee
Niitoiyis Family Support Society
P.O. Box 6084, Station A
Calgary, Alberta T2H 2L3
Email: niitoiyis@niitoiyis.com
Fax: (403) 531-1977
Indigenous Support
Niitoiyis Family Support Society supports traditional Indigenous healing, guided by the Seven Sacred teachings and other traditional wisdom. While Niitoiyis Family Support Society is inclusive of all cultures, we started out practicing Indigenous healing and still use this unique methodology for all of our clients.
MEMORIES
PHOTOS OF niitoiyis family support society
THROUGHOUT THE YEARS
