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The Wabun Tribal Council is community driven and receives its direction from and is accountable to the Chiefs of Wabun's six First Nation communities, who make up the organization's Board of Directors. All senior staff reports to the Executive Director wh

Nog-Da-Win-Da-Min Family and Community Services is a child welfare prevention service agency that works in collaboration with the 7 First Nations in ensuring that children, youth and families receive culturally appropriate services. Our mission is to strengthen our families and communities for our children. Through our justice program - Mino Madzwin Youth - we strive to help yourh become self-aware and attain the skills needed to live well. We hope to empower our youth to move towards a more holistic lifestyle. First Nations Communities served are: Batchewana First Nation, Garden River First Nation, Thessalon First Nation, Mississauga First Nation, Serpent River First Nation, Sagamok Anishnawbek and Atikameksheng Anishnawbek.

In the 1960s, children with special needs in Northern Ontario had nowhere to go once they reached school age. There were very few support groups for these families. In 1963, an association in the Kirkland Lake area was founded and word spread to families in the Espanola area, encouraging them to begin working together for their own children. These families, with nothing more in common than the love and compassion for their special children, were driven by the possibility that there was more to offer their loved ones.