Programs & Services

Since 2005, we’ve worked alongside Elders, youth, families, and knowledge keepers to build a place rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing. Our programs are not just services – they are gatherings, teachings, and shared journeys.

From land-based healing circles to cultural workshops and youth empowerment programs, everything we offer is shaped by the voices of those we serve.

The Justice System

Led by our network of female and male Indigenous Native Inmate Liaison Officers across Ontario, White Buffalo Road Healing Lodge provides traditional teachings for healing and reconnection through Indigenous youth-at-risk programs, Elder Assisted Parole Circle Hearings, and after-care reintegration programs through cultural and spiritual teachings

• Preventative: We keep youth at risk from entering the criminal justice system, using culture-centred intervention strategies to address issues before they lead to incarceration, aiming to divert them toward positive life choices.
• Transformative: We inspire profound change in jail inmates by reconnecting them with community, family, and spiritual foundation. We further provide traditional addiction counselling to prepare our clients for a meaningful reintegration into society.
• Restorative: Our post-release aftercare restores individuals to a productive, self-sufficient, and accountable role in society, which helps parolees avoid recidivism by building self-esteem and confidence.

Community Outreach

White Buffalo’s traditional teachings extend its land- and spirit-based educational and healing programs to positive working relationships in concert with Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals, organizations, and communities in a true spirit of reconciliation. We schedule day programs year-round for friends and guests from all cultures. All are welcome!

Recently, White Buffalo has partnered with Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute at Laurentian University, devoted to innovative Indigenous research built upon inherent strengths of language, land, and cultural identity in partnership with a diverse group of scholars and community leaders committed to fostering collaboration, respect, and understanding.

Youth at Risk

White Buffalo Road Healing Lodge Inc. provides Indigenous traditional Youth at Risk programming that benefits Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Youth, specializing in spiritual health and mental health teachings programs in:

• Aboriginal traditional teachings (Medicine Wheel & Seven Grandfathers).
• Aboriginal spiritual, health and mental health.
• Aboriginal medicines, history and purpose.
• Aboriginal traditional ceremonies and drumming.
• Aboriginal youth teachings, respecting Earth, Water, Air and Fire.
• Aboriginal arts and crafts.
• Aboriginal hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering.
• Aboriginal youth counselling and healing.
• Aboriginal healthy eating, healthy lifestyle choices.
• Aboriginal youth counselling, avoiding alcohol & drugs.
• Aboriginal youth life skills teachings.
• Aboriginal youth stay in school and career planning.
• Aboriginal youth employment & training initiatives.
• Aboriginal youth entrepreneurial economic development initiatives.

White Buffalo Road Healing Lodge Inc. also delivers Youth at Risk off-site programming, and we work with Wendigo Lake, Expeditions in South River, Ontario and the Sudbury, Ontario Catholic District School Board.

We welcome all inquiries about our on and off-site Youth at Risk programs and services.  For more information please contact us.

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