About The IPHCC
The Indigenous Primary Health Care Council (IPHCC) is a status-neutral, Indigenous-governed, culture-based, and Indigenous-informed organization dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples across Ontario.
We work with a network of over 20 Indigenous Primary Health Care Organizations (IPHCOs) across 60+ locations in Ontario, providing community-based care in urban, rural, remote, and on-reserve settings.
Together, we serve approximately 100,000 Indigenous clients. Many of our members have been delivering trusted, culturally rooted health services for more than 25 years.
MODEL OF WHOLISTIC HEALTH & WELLBEING
A Time for Reconciliation
IPHCC promotes high-quality care provision through the Model of Wholistic Health and Wellbeing. The model is rooted in a population needs-based approach to health care planning and delivery for the Indigenous population. The model incorporates physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual elements of wellbeing and it is believed that all elements must operate in harmony.
There is a belief that culture is treatment and culture is healing, and our model of care solidly implants a strong self-identity so that self-determination is fostered, and positive health outcomes are advanced. This model of care promotes and celebrates the diversity in our people so that all voices are elevated, and the power to oversee our destiny lies with our communities.
While the MWHW is grounded in Anishinaabe teachings such as the Seven Grandfathers and the Medicine Wheel, we recognize that wholistic wellbeing is a value shared across many Indigenous Nations. This includes Haudenosaunee teachings of the Good Mind, Mushkegowuk Cree teachings of Wahkohtowin and Miyo-pimâtisiwin, Lenape teachings of balance and interdependence, Métis understandings of interconnectedness, and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit principles of community care and relational responsibility.
