Avoid fad weight-loss diets that promise quick fixes.
October 9, 2026
Avoid fad weight-loss diets that promise quick fixes. Sustainable wellness relies on balanced meals, traditional foods, and lifelong patterns.
How We Support You, Your Organization or Your Community
Diabetes Wellness
IDHC promotes diabetes awareness from an Indigenous perspective and assists Indigenous communities in identifying appropriate resources and services, planning, prevention and awareness strategies and coordinating community/regional programs and events based on community needs.
Knowledge Department
Our Knowledge Department combines traditional wisdom with current diabetes education, while incorporating First Nations, Métis, Inuit and mainstream influences. This program supports front line workers to plan, prepare and present relevant information about diabetes while also educating on Indigenous perspectives of health and wellness.
Foot Care Program
Our Foot Care Program is aimed towards Indigenous people affected by or at risk of diabetes and its complications. Our holistic model supports a continuum of seamless services including educating and connecting community members to Indigenous agency partners and local health professionals.
Menu of Services
Healthy Menu of Services
Leader in delivery of holistic wellness models of care — reflecting body, mind and spirit — to reduce impacts of type 2 diabetes on Indigenous peoples in Ontario and build community capacity in diabetes prevention.
Body
- Foot care education
- Ongoing foot care clinics
- Subsidy program
- Self-care kits
Mind
- Culturally-appropriate wellness resources
- Professional certification through ICBOC
- Professional training (such as Foot Care Level 1, Diabetes Awareness, Gestational Diabetes Prevention and more)
Spirit
- Healthy lifestyle presentations from Indigenous perspectives
- Workshops and interactive healthy living activities
- Annual Event
Recent Blog Posts
As we pick, pack and preserve our food for the winter-keep in mind what we eat affects our feet.
October 8, 2026
As we pick, pack and preserve our food for the winter-keep in mind what we eat affects our feet. Sugar-heavy preserves cause sharp blood glucose spikes. Experiment with ancestral drying and smoking methods that require no added sugar.
Eyes on Wellness.
October 7, 2026
Eyes on Wellness. Hands on work. Your work is vital to community so your vision is vital to your work. Stay on top of your eye care routine.