The Ontario Native Women's Association was established to promote the betterment and quality of Aboriginal women.  The Ontario Native Women's Association is a provincial organization founded in 1972 which represents Aboriginal women and their families on matters that affect the political, social, education, economic, and justice issues of our daily lives.  The Association has over 80 local volunteer organizations, both on and off reserve communities.  The local organizations are divided into 4 regions within Ontario (North, South, East, and West).  Affiliated with the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC), the ONWA represents Aboriginal women in the province of Ontario, regardless of status or locality.

The ONWA offers the following programs/services from their office at 200 McKenzie Avenue, Geraldton for the Municipality of Greenstone:

Healthy Babies Healthy Children Family Home Visitor
telephone:  807-854-0254     fax:  807-854-0836

Community Health Outreach Worker Program
telephone:  807-854-2326     fax:  807-854-0836 

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Funding for these programs is provided by the Government of Ontario Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy (AHWS).  The AHWS is a policy and service initiative that brings together Aboriginal people and the Government of Ontario in a unique partnership to promote health and healing among Aboriginal people.  In 1990, the Aboriginal organizations and government ministries that developed this Strategy expressed a commitment to combat the alarming conditions of poor health and family violence that Aboriginal people in Ontario have endured.