Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre

About Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre

Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (SOAHAC) is a health and wellness organization located on Dundas St in Midtown London. It serves First Nation, Métis, and Inuit individuals and their families living on and off-reserve, in rural areas, and within urban Indigenous communities across Southwestern Ontario, including Windsor, Waterloo Wellington, Newbury, and Owen Sound. The center provides primary care, dental care, pharmacy services, and traditional healing. Specific programs and services include child care, child and youth outreach, family centre programming, Jordan’s Principle, Supporting Aboriginal Seniors at Home (SASH), and palliative care. The organization also provides mental health and addiction services, tele-mental health for children and youth, diabetes education, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder services, indigenous midwifery and women’s health promotion, and health promotion and social support services. SOAHAC operates under a wholistic Indigenous health framework that blends Indigenous teachings and western health practices. The organization views culture as a form of treatment and focuses on restoring the "good mind." SOAHAC is part of a group of Aboriginal Health Access Centres first announced in Ontario in 1995 to address systemic health disparities and inequities.