We walk with our community on their journeys
Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc. is a trusted heart of Winnipeg’s Indigenous community. Our vision is to lead our people back home to a place where we are self-determining, healthy, happy, and respected for our cultural and spiritual strengths and ways of being.
What We Do
A number of Indigenous led prevention and intervention programs that help children, youth, women, men, and families heal, succeed, and become leaders. Ka Ni Kanichihk provides education and job-skills training, support for women and families, and mentorship. We walk with people on their path of recovery from trauma.
Programs and Services
News and Events
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June 15, 2026
Honouring Two Lives, One Legacy: Renaming of the Oscar & Amanda Lathlin Memorial Award
June 15, 2026
Medicine Bear Counselling, Support, and Elder Services- Honouring Red Dress Day
June 15, 2026
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📣This Monday, August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day
To honour this day, we want to spread knowledge and help our community learn the signs of an overdose and the steps to take to save a life.
Join us for a free Naloxone Training session:
📅 August 31, 2026 | Overdose Awareness Day
🕒 2PM–4PM
📍 455 McDermot Avenue
‼Registration is required and spots are limited. To register, email Azha at aschick@kanikanichihk.ca.
Knowledge saves lives — come learn how you can help. 🧡
📣 New Program Announcement!
We’re excited to introduce Gikino’amaw Ogichidaa — which translates to Teaching Warrior Society — a new program for male and male-identifying relatives who are 18 years or older to connect with traditional teachings, build relationships, and learn about themselves and their roles as men.
Guided by the framework of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, participants will explore their journey as men through three key questions:
💭Yesterday: how did we learn to be men?
💭Today: how are we in relationship with one another, other men, and the women in our lives?
💭Tomorrow: what guiding principles and resources can we establish to live healthy lives?
Registration is now open! Spots are limited.
📅 Starts September 17, 2026
🕒 5PM–7PM, every Thursday for 8 weeks
📍 90 Gertie Street
To register, contact Athompson@kanikanichihk.ca or call 204-953-5820 during business hours
📣Join us for our "All of Us" Sharing Circle for peoples living with HIV/STBBI
📅 Friday, September 18, 2026
🕒 3PM–7PM
📍 102-765 Main St
Meal and bus tickets provided, with a Drumming Circle to close out the evening.
For more info, contact the Wellness Lodge: Mino Pimatisiwin Sexual Wellness at 204-594-6500.
All of us belong. All of us are welcome. ❤🍂
Ka Ni Kanichihk staff spent their Sunday yesterday handing out sandwiches, candies, and water to our relatives — alongside DCSP and so many amazing volunteers.
Community care in action. We’ll always show up for our relatives, however we can ❤️
📣 Free Naloxone Training
Register today for our next Naloxone Training session on August 26, from 2PM–4PM at 455 McDermot Avenue. Learn to recognize the signs of drug poisoning and the basics of Naloxone administration — a valuable skill that can help save a life.
Registration is required and spots are limited! To register, email Azha at:
📧aschick@kanikanichihk.ca.
A day with so much to celebrate ❤️
From our AGM, to the grand opening of our all-season sweat lodge, to our first-ever Block Party!
A special congratulations to Carter Wilson, our Council Treasurer, on celebrating 9 years with us! 👏🏽 Miigwetch Carter, for the knowledge, care, and meaningful contributions you have made to Ka Ni Kanichihk over the past 9 years.
Thank you to everyone who came out, celebrated with us, and helped make the day so special.
❤️ A glimpse of our new all-season sweat lodge
Having this space will allow community more opportunities for ceremony year round – especially for those who may face transportation barriers accessing ceremony outside the city. We can’t wait to welcome all our relatives here!
🔥Come see it for yourself- take a tour of the sweat lodge tomorrow during our block party, from 12PM–3PM behind our 455 McDermot building on Gertie Street.
📍 Gertie Street (behind 455 McDermot Avenue)
📅 August 21 | 12PM–3PM
🌙Join us next Friday, August 28 from 8PM–10PM, for a Full Moon Ceremony honouring the sacred relationship between feminine energy and Grandmother Moon
Open to community — anyone who identifies with feminine energy is invited to participate in the Ceremony; those who identify with masculine energy are welcome to attend and observe.
This month, the ceremony is being hosted by our Medicine Bear Counselling, Support, and Elder Services (MBC)
Host Speaker: Auntie Pam, Women`s Health Clinic
❤ MBC is grateful to be hosting the ceremony in partnership with:
-Bear Clan Patrol
-Blue Thunderbird Family Care
-Candace House
-Deer Lodge Centre
-HSC – Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Services
-Inaadiziwin Transitional Support Services & Community Connections
-Ka Ni Kanichihk – Medicine Bear Counselling
-Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc. – MMIWG Liaison Unit (MKO)
-Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD)
-Manitoba Moon Voices
-Native Clan Organization, Inc.
-Sunshine House
-2 Spirit Manitoba
-Women`s Health Clinic
All are welcome. Please bring a chair, and your own rattles or drums if you have them 🥁
📍 The Forks – Oodena Circle
📅 August 28 | 8PM–10PM
25th Annual Keeping the Fires Burning
Thursday, June 18th, 2026 – RBC Convention Centre
Grand Entry at 5:30PM CST
Ka Ni Kanichihk is excited to invite you to join us on Thursday, June 18th, 2026, to mark 25 years of celebrating Indigenous resilience, relationship and reconciliation.
Funds raised through Keeping the Fires Burning provide transformative, culturally safe services and programs. They also support research and the integration of best practices in Indigenous-led community leadership. These are all critical elements in the restoration and reclamation of our positive and powerful cultural identity.
For information please contact: Sheri Domenico at sheri.domenico@outlook.com or by phone at 204-881-0337.
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