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The purposes of the Nlaka’pamux Health Service Society is to:

• to manage, administer, and monitor the holistic well-being of the members of the Nlaka’pamux Nation Bands (as that term is defined in the Bylaws of the Society);
• to encourage Nlaka’pamux Nation Bands to seek ways to better communicate and interact with all concerned, and to work together to establish an understanding of health issues with an emphasis on individual self-care. In Nlaka’pamux Nation tradition, health and well-being encompass a holistic lifestyle, taking into account the emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, environmental, and historical incidents affecting First Nations people;
• to communicate with governments regarding health issues of the members of the Nlaka’pamux Nation Bands;
• to promote, educate and support holistic, and culturally appropriate, community-based methods of providing wellness, healing, treatment, and/or prevention;
• to fund, facilitate, and carry out activities and programs of the Society which provide education, selfcare development, and traditional practices;
• to own, acquire, rent or lease, by purchase, donation, bequest, or otherwise; lands, buildings, and other property or any one or more of them, and to sell, rent, lease, exchange, mortgage, and improve such other property to best further the goals and objectives of the Society;
• to promote the preservation and advancement of the Nlaka’pamux Nation Bands, recognizing their unique cultural differences and the affiliations;
• to best accommodate the wishes of individual Nlaka’pamux Nation Bands in respect of their level of involvement in any of the purposes herein;
• to receive or raise funds for the aforesaid purposes;
• to create a cooperative environment that supports and enables providers and volunteers to work towards an achievement of health goals;
• to provide a range of health services as close to home as is possible with the best practice guideline;
• to ensure the members of the Nlaka’pamux Nation Bands have health services provided on a perpetual basis;
• to do all such things as are necessary for the attainment of the above purposes.

“Nlaka’pamux Nation Bands” include:  Coldwater Indian Band, Nooaitch Indian Band, Shackan Indian Band, Lower Nicola Indian Band, Ashcroft Indian Band, Cooks Ferry Indian Band, Nicomen Indian Band, Lytton First Nation, Skuppa Indian Band, Siska Indian Band, Kanaka Bar Indian Band, and Oregon Jack Indian Band

Find out more about Nlaka’pamux Health Service Society here https://nlxhealth.com/.

Nlaka’pamux Health Service Society serves the Fraser Thompson region.