Health Care Service Program

While the health of registered aboriginals has improved and continues to improve, life expectancy is considerably below the national families level. Add this to the fact that more aboriginal families are relying on social assistance payments for income, and there is a clear need for better access to health care for people. With these facts in mind, we undertook this health care service on April 1, 1999, and will continue it as long as the need is there. It is primarily a referral service, to help connect people to the various programs available to them. To this end we are working in affiliation with a number of Ottawa Valley groups.