Ilisaqsivik logo IlisaqsivikClyde River, Kangiqtugaapik, Nunavut 1-867-924-6565

The journey, and the rooms off it

  1. ᐱᒋᐊᕐᕕᖓThe journey itself
  2. Health and Wellness Centreprograms, week by week
  3. ᐃᓅᓯᑦᑕ ᓇᒧᙵᐅᕙᓪᓕᐊᓂᕆᔭᖓOur Life's Journey, counsellor training
  4. ᑐᓐᖓᕕᕗᑦOur pillars
  5. ᒥᒃᓵᓄᑦAbout the society
  6. ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᑦCareers
  7. ᑐᓐᓂᖅᑯᑕᐅᔪᖅDonate
  8. ᑎᑎᕋᕐᕕᒋᓗᒍContact

ᐋᓐᓂᐊᖅᑕᐃᓕᒪᓂᖅ ᐃᓅᓇᓱᐊᑦᑎᐊᕐᓂᒧᓪᓗ ᐅᐸᑲᑦᑕᕐᕕᒃ

Health and Wellness Centre

The Centre offers Inuit-led, culturally and linguistically relevant community programs and counselling services for residents of Clyde River and elsewhere in Nunavut. Programs and services are based on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, traditional knowledge, and Inuuqatigiittiarniq, the healthy inter-connection of mind, body, spirit, and the environment.

Community Programs serve all life stages from prenatal to Elders in Clyde River. Nine core programs run all year round, and several others occur on a seasonal and on demand basis. The full record, exactly as it runs:

Before birth and new life

Canadian Prenatal Nutrition ProgramMon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat · 5 to 7 p.m.Pre and post-natal nutrition, at Ilisaqsivik
Healthy food pickup for pregnant womenTue · 1 to 5 p.m.At Ilisaqsivik

Children

Parents and Tots Preschool Drop-inMon to Fri · 1 to 3 p.m.At Ilisaqsivik
Breakfast Program for StudentsMon to Fri · 8 to 9 a.m.At Quluaq School
Lunch Program for StudentsMon to Wed · 9:15 to 11:15 a.m.Pick up at Quluaq School
Literacy, Tutoring, CAPC and After School ProgramMon to Fri · 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.At Ilisaqsivik

Young people

Youth Drop-inMon, Wed, Thu, Fri · 7 to 10 p.m.In the library; Tue and Sat, 6 to 10 p.m.
Evening RecreationMon to Fri · 6 to 10 p.m.Gym at Quluaq School; Sat, 5 to 10 p.m.

Elders

Elders' Programs: Inuit Societal ValuesMon to Fri · 1 to 5 p.m.
Elder's drop-inMon to Thu · 1 to 5 p.m.At the shack
Elders' gatheringFri · 3 to 5 p.m.

On the air

Radio Show 107.1 FMThu for teachers · Fri for counsellors · Sat for Elders

To learn more, call 1-867-924-6565 or toll-free 1-888-331-4433, or write to tungasugit@ilisaqsivik.ca.

Counselling services

Help, in your own language

Counselling Services is recognised across Nunavut and by the federal government as making an important contribution to responding to trauma and addressing the high rate of suicide in Nunavut. Services include counselling, training of counsellors and crisis response.

Counselling is offered in person in Clyde River at the Ilisaqsivik resource centre. Remote counselling for other communities in the Qikiqtani region is available by phone. To reach a counsellor Monday to Friday, 9am to 12pm and 1pm to 5pm, call 1-867-924-6565.

Kids Help Phone, Indigenous Services

Phone 1-800-668-6868, 24/7, press 3 for the Indigenous queue. Text the word INUIT to 686868, 24/7.

Also running

  • Tajjutaq, 28 Day Addictions Program On The Land
  • Crisis Response Trauma Team
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Community and Regional Healing Gatherings
  • Support to survivors of Residential Schools, Day Schools, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
The counsellor training behind this work