The INDex: Indigenous Support Workers Project (ISWP)

The mandate of ISWP is to center and support the well-being of Indigenous people with lived experiences of homelessness through decolonial advocacy and revitalization practices. ISWP is committed to providing wrap-around care and fostering relationships of trust based in wholistic healing and skills development to support our community members’ transition to an autonomous and empowered life free from homophobia and transphobia, and other forms of structural violence. This is accomplished by providing:

by-and-for peer services for community members and service users using a rights-based harm reduction approach centring Indigenous ways of being, knowing and healing
resources in response to community needs
training and employment opportunities for Indigenous workers with lived experience of homelessness working in the mental health, rights-based harm reduction, support work, street outreach, and/or homelessness-serving sector
education and training for peer organizations and other groups that serve PTSA/ISWP community members

Reach this organization

Others: Our hours are flexible on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. We do not have a public phone number, address or email. You will see us walking around the streets of the Plateau-Mont-Royal and hear of our approximate locations through word-of-mouth.

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Confidential address

Plateau-Mont-Royal area

Indigenous-serving programs

Indigenous Health Navigators

Indigenous Health navigators offer accompaniments to Health related services.

Peer Street Crew

Members of the Indigenous street community in the Plateau-Mont-Royal walk around to offer their support.

Social animators

Access to low barrier Indigenous cultural and food related activities.

Street Nurse

Rudimentary nurse services are provided on the street.