Kaie:ri:nikawera:ke Day Centre

The Kaie:ri nikawera:ke Day Centre (KDC) provides a welcoming, safe, and culturally appropriate space for Indigenous community members experiencing homelessness or difficult living conditions in Montreal. The Centre offers essential services such as food, clothing, hygiene facilities, laundry services, and access to computers, along with crisis and emotional support provided by our Intervention Workers.

Our Community and Family Wellness Workers provide personalized case management and assist individuals in navigating health and social services. They work closely with community members to identify needs, set goals, and connect them with appropriate programs and supports that promote stability, healing, and long-term wellness.

If you would like to connect with our Wellness Worker team please contact: wellness@nfcm.org.

The KDC team works collaboratively with partner organizations to coordinate services that strengthen community wellbeing and promote stability. Through this ongoing cooperation, the Centre helps improve living conditions, increase accessibility to resources, and encourage personal growth and connection.

At the heart of the program is a commitment to maintaining a respectful, inclusive, and supportive environment where everyone is treated with dignity. Guided by the values of cultural safety, compassion, and accountability, the KDC continues to evolve to meet the needs of the urban Indigenous community of Montreal.

Our results for 2024-2025

• 23,700 hot lunches served
• 11,650 breakfast served
• 12,800+ meaningful connections
• 3,250 unique individuals assessed

Karonhi:io Food Security Initiatives

Our Karonhi:io Food Security initiatives establish, increase, and ensure the access of food aid to the Montreal Indigenous community. In order to meet the needs of community members, the NFCM has developed a plan that aims to increase sustainability and productivity by assessing the unique needs of the individuals within our community, providing bi-weekly substantial and nutritional food baskets, daily breakfast and hot lunch meals, and emergency food aid.

Our results for 2024-2025

• 345 unique households serviced
• 2,080 food baskets distributed
• 1,500 monthly community dinner meals served

In addition

* We gratefully acknowledge the financial and in-kind contributions of Moisson Montréal toward our Karonhi:io Food Security initiatives.

If you would like to connect with our Kaie:ri nikawera:ke Day Centre team please contact: kdc@nfcm.org.

Kai:anera’hsera Akwé:kon Legal Information Clinic

Kai:anera’hsera Akwé:kon is a Legal Information Clinic that operates in partnership with the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal, the McGill Faculty of Law, and supervising lawyers from Dionne Schulze Attorneys. The nature of the Clinic is to help Indigenous members of the Centre obtain legal information as well as to allow McGill law students to gain experience working in the legal field and a community setting serving Indigenous clientele.

Photo: The Pow Wow Rangers drumming in front of the Friendship Wampum, created in partnership with the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) and led by Carling Sioui of O'YENHRA'. (2025)