Abinotci Mino-Ayawin

Abinotci Mino-Ayawin (Children's healing) is located in the Aboriginal Centre, in the core area of Winnipeg. It is sponsored by the Aboriginal Health & Wellness Centre (AHWC), an organization that offers a continuum of holistic, traditional and contemporary healing resources to meet the health and wellness needs of the Aboriginal community of Winnipeg.

Abinotci serves at-risk Aboriginal families in central Winnipeg with children age 0-6. It was established in 1994 as the first program of AHWC. A needs assessment conducted by Abinotci found that Aboriginal families were not accessing available services as much as they needed because of multiple barriers related to poverty and low socio-economic status. Abinotci was developed to fill this gap in services. Programming began in the Spence and Point Douglas neighbourhoods, and as the program progressed, Abinotci expanded its focus beyond these neighbourhoods to include all of central Winnipeg.

Abinotic provides a range of care services (promotion, prevention, treatment, support and after-care) to promote the well-being and enhance living conditions of its priority groups. Abinotci bases its work with families on the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, an Aboriginal framework for holistic health. Values, traditions and beliefs that embrace traditional Aboriginal approaches to healing are central to Abinotci's service delivery model. Abinotci emphasizes a needs-based, constituent-centred approach that considers physical, mental, spiritual, cultural, economic, educational, and environmental factors.
Abinotci also focuses on networking with other service providers.