We would like to provide an update on London InterCommunity Health Centre’s (LIHC) hours of operation. During the summer season we trialed early closer on Fridays meanwhile increasing clinic hours at our various sites on weeknights and Thursday mornings. We will be extending this change in our operating hours until the end of 2024 , representing a redistribution of existing operating hours as we explore new ways of serving our community.
Temporary Operating Hours
Old East Village Clinic (click for map)
659 Dundas Street
London, Ontario N5W 2Z1
Tel: 519-660-0874
Fax: 519-642-1532
Our clinical service hours are Mon 9:00 – 4, Tues 9:00 – 4, Wed 9:00 – 6:00, Thurs 9:00 – 4, Fri 9:00 – 12.
Nos heures cliniques sont lun 9h – 16h, mar 9h – 16h, mer 9h – 18:00h, jeu 9h – 16h, ven 9h – 12h.
Health Outreach Clinic (click for map)
659 Dundas Street
London, Ontario N5W 2Z1
Tel: 519-660-0874
Fax: 519-642-1532
Our clinical service hours are Mon 9 – 4, Tues 9 – 4, Wed 9 – 6:00, Thurs 9 – 4, Fri 9 – 12.
Nos heures cliniques sont lun 9h – 16h, mar 9h – 16h, mer 9h – 18:00h, jeu 9h – 16h, ven 9h – 12h.
Huron Clinic (click for map)
Huron Heights Plaza
Unit 7 – 1355 Huron Street
London, Ontario N5V 1R9
Tel: 519-659-6399
Fax: 519-659-9930
Our clinical service hours are Mon 9:00 – 8, Tues 9:00 – 4, Wed 9:00 – 4, Thurs 9:00 – 4, Fri 9:00 – 12.
Nos heures cliniques sont lun 9h – 20h, mar 9h – 16h, mer 9h – 16h, jeu 9h – 16h, ven 9h – 12h.
Argyle Clinic (click for map)
1700 Dundas Street, Unit 1
London, Ontario N5W 3C9
Tel: 519-660-5853
Fax: 519-642-1532
Our clinical service hours are Mon 9:00 – 4, Tues 9:00 – 4, Wed 9:00 – 4, Thurs 9:00 – 6:30, Fri 9:00 – 12.
Nos heures cliniques sont lun 9h – 16h, mar 9h – 16h, mer 9h – 16h, jeu 9h – 1830h, ven 9h – 12h.
For support After Hours, please contact the London Doctors’ Relief Service. Appointments are booked on a first come first served basis : https://ldrs.ca/ . Please note: LDRS is not providing renewals on opioids, benzodiazepines, any controlled prescriptions.
You may also utilize the Virtual Urgent Care clinics offered by LHSC and SJHC: https://www.urgentcareontario.ca/
To assess the impacts of adjusted hours on client care and our commitments to collaboration and support of our community partners, LIHC will be seeking feedback. This assessment will start in the coming weeks to make sure we are fulfilling our commitments to our clients, our partner agencies and community
Join us every Tuesday for 8 weeks starting October 3 at 6:30 p.m. for Gender Journeys. Primarily for individuals 16 and older and in the beginning stages of transition, this group is for anyone thinking about or having already taken early steps toward transition as well as those who are gender-questioning.
The program will take place at the London InterCommunity Health Centre Argyle Clinic at 1700 Dundas Street. This is not a drop-in program: participants should plan to attend all eight weeks.
Gender change is a journey!
Visit https://thamesvalleyfht.ca/programregistration/gender-journeys/ to register.
We value your input and are committed to continually improving the quality of care and services we provide. We encourage clients, patients, and their families to share their experiences, whether positive feedback, suggestions, or concerns, so that we can address your needs and ensure we deliver the best possible care.
By clicking the link below, you can access our Client Feedback Form. Your responses are confidential and will be reviewed by our Leadership Team. We may follow up if more information is needed to resolve any concerns. You can also choose to remain anonymous.
You can access the form here: https://forms.office.com/r/rJ5jqEuZ9T
Violence against women, and certainly violence against Indigenous women, is rarely understood as a human rights issue. When governments, media and the general public consider violence against women, it is often described as a criminal concern or a social issue. It is both of those things, of course. But it is also a human rights issue.
Indigenous women and girls have the right to be safe and free from violence. When a woman is targeted with violence because of her gender or Indigenous identity, her fundamental rights are abused. And when state authorities do not offer her adequate protection because of her gender or Indigenous identity, those rights are violated.
(Amnesty International)
The contents of the Call to Action outline the steps necessary to end one of the worst and ongoing genocides in Canadian history that are being committed against Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Detailed are the 231 Calls for Justice formulated by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls that were established by the federal government in 2016.
The National Inquiry issued its final report on June 3, 2019. These legal imperatives are the wide ranging and well-considered results of two and a half years of work on the part of Chief Commissioner Marion Buller and her fellow Commissioners Michèle Audette, Brian Eyolfson, and Qajaq Robinson. They are responses to the truths shared by more than 2,380 family members of victims, survivors of violence, experts, Elders, and Knowledge Keepers during cross country public hearings.
They are the measures that must follow the National Inquiry’s affirmation that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people. We, at the Native Women’s Association of Canada, want to thank the Commissioners for their work, for these Calls for Justice, and for the finding that the violence that is being perpetrated against us and against our mothers, daughters, sisters, and aunties is, in fact, a genocide.
To read the entire Calls for Justice document, click on the image.
The Strong Women’s Song is credited to the Anishinabe kwewag and Zhoganosh kwewag who were in solitary confinement in the Prison For Women in Kingston, Ontario during the 1970’s.
It was these women who had this song come to them. This song emerged as a way of staying alive, of supporting each other in terrible conditions. Many women in P4W lost their lives because of the horrendous conditions there.
We sing this song to honour them, and all women.
On Sunday, May 5th, Althosa Family Healing Services will commemorate Red Dress Day through their REDress Day Maamigin, also known as a gathering. This Maamigin will be held in Victoria Park, from 12:30pm to 4:30pm. Activities at the event will be centered around bringing the community together by providing a space for education, advocacy, and remembrance. More details on the event can be found here.
In addition, to honour the memory of the victims and provide support to our team, clients, and the community, LIHC will have a memorial table at each one of our sites. These tables will feature candles and resources informed by trauma and violence – providing a moment of silence and reflection. Our Dundas site (659 Dundas Street) will have a table set up to offer smudging, from 10am-12pm and again from 1pm-3pm.
Documentary: Finding Dawn
This feature-length documentary addresses the ongoing epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) across Canada. In the film, the family of Dawn Crey reflect on the days, weeks, and months following the discovery of Dawn’s remains on Robert Pickton’s farm, and what her life was like leading up to her death. Dawn’s DNA was one of 23 sets of women’s DNA found on the Pickton farm; however, not enough of it was found to have her listed as one of the victims at Pickton’s trial. Families of MMIWG who disappeared on the Highway of Tears and in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside also share their stories in the film.
Documentary: This River
Fourteen-year-old Tina Fontaine was pulled from Winnipeg’s Red River in 2014. Indigenous leaders from across Canada rallied to renew calls for an inquiry into the missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. As a result of this tragedy, the organization Drag the Red was formed by community volunteers. These men and women scour the river and its shores to search for clues about the missing. As members of this group, Kyle Kematch and organizer Katherena Vermette share their experiences of searching for a missing loved one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxHr5Ygs2g0
Wear Red. Be social.
Talk about it. Raising awareness is part of the solution.
Join the national campaign and wear red or one of our Health Centre MMIWG+2S buttons for the day.
Share a photo. Make sure to use hashtags #MMIW, #MMIWG, #MMIWG2S, #MMIWActionNow, and #NoMoreStolenSisters!
Personal Contemplation
Is the MMIWG+2S crisis something that has just surfaced in recent years? What do you think are the reasons behind the tragic deaths of Indigenous women?
How would you describe colonialism, the Indian Act, residential schools, and the Sixties Scoop, and how have they shaped the lives of Indigenous women in Canada?
What can I do as a learner to change the way that I relate to Indigenous people?
Aboriginal women and girls are strong and beautiful. They are our mothers, our daughters, our sisters, our aunties and our grandmothers, yet Aboriginal women face life-threatening, gender-based violence, and disproportionately experience violent crimes because of hatred and racism.
According to Statistics Canada’s 2004 General Social Survey (GSS), Aboriginal women experience much higher rates of violence than non-Aboriginal women.
Statistics Canada reports that Aboriginal women are significantly overrepresented as victims of homicide.
Statistics Canada reports that Aboriginal women are more likely to experience more severe and potentially life-threatening forms of family violence than non-Aboriginal women.
Certainly, family violence represents one of the most urgent issues impacting Aboriginal women. However, there is also a need for more research and awareness about other forms of violence—particularly violence perpetrated by strangers or acquaintances.
Community-based research has found levels of violence against Aboriginal women to be even higher than those reported by government surveys. There are many limitations to government-collected statistics.
With a talk that encourages hope, love, empowerment and igniting a new way of learning together as a nation, Tamara Bernard lays bare the world of violence impacting indigenous women. Wearing a high heel on one foot, and a moccasin on the other….we view things through her lens, where indigenous women are more than “murdered and missing”. Much more. Tamara is pursuing her masters degree in education at Lakehead University. Personally connected to her topic through her great grandmother, she has been speaking out about “Decolonization of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women”, giving a voice to the voiceless.
Rosalie Fish is an 18-year-old member of the Cowlitz Tribe and a competitive runner from the Muckleshoot Reservation in Auburn, Washington. She graduated this year from the Muckleshoot Tribal School, where she represented her school in the Class 1B Washington State Track Meet, earned three gold medals, a silver and a sportsmanship award, and used that platform to raise awareness for missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW). Her passions include running, youth empowerment, indigenous visibility, upholding and practicing native traditions, as well as uplifting and advocating for native communities and native women. She is excited to share her work on MMIW with the TedXYouth @ Seattle community because, according to the Urban Indian Health Institute, Seattle leads the nation in MMIW cases. Recruited for her running ability and proven leadership Rosalie will attend Iowa Central Community College in the fall where she will continue her athletic career and her activism for MMIW. Rosalie Fish is an 18-year-old member of the Cowlitz Tribe and a competitive runner from the Muckleshoot Reservation in Auburn, Washington. She graduated this year from the Muckleshoot Tribal School, where she represented her school in the Class 1B Washington State Track Meet, earned three gold medals, a silver and a sportsmanship award, and used that platform to raise awareness for missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW). Her passions include running, youth empowerment, indigenous visibility, upholding and practicing native traditions, as well as uplifting and advocating for native communities and native women.
Health Centre Executive Director Scott Courtice joins our friends at the London Community Foundation for their podcast: What London Can Be, to talk about the Health Centre’s role in tackling London’s homelessness crisis, and the plan for our whole community to tackle this problem together, born from the homelessness summits held over the past few months.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts or online at lcf.on.ca/whatlondoncanbe
Welcome to What London Can Be, the podcast where we navigate our shifting world, shine a light on the issues our city is facing, and explore the innovative, made-in-London solutions to critical challenges in our community. Host Diane Silva, Director of Philanthropy at London Community Foundation, talks to experts, leaders and changemakers in London, Ontario, to discover together how to create a vibrant, resilient and just community.
To celebrate their re-launch, the Boyle Activity Council are hosting a delicious Pancake Breakfast on Family Day, Monday February 20 from 9 am to 11 am at Boyle Memorial Centre (520 Charlotte Street).
Breakfast is by donation and will include pancakes & syrup, juice, coffee and bottomless cup of community. This is a great opportunity to learn more about us or volunteer to support our programs including the very popular Boyle Mini-Soccer program: a neighbourhood house league program where kids can play and learn skills while parents and care-givers can enjoy each others company while cheering for their favourite team.
The Boyle Activity Council is a volunteer committee dedicated to providing the Old East Village neighbourhood in London, Ontario, Canada with affordable recreation opportunities. The BAC, along with key community partners, offer programs for residents of all ages.
We are closed on Friday, April 2nd. However we are open on Monday, April 5th. The lockdown has not affected our hours of operation. We are still open! To learn more about specific site details, please click here: https://lihc.on.ca/locations-and-hours/
Please join us on Thursday, March 18th, 5:00-7:30 pm at Shoppers Drug Mart (431 Richmond Street) for a free HIV testing event for women and marginalized genders!
The Options Clinic also offers free, anonymous, rapid testing by appointment. Entry to the Health Centre will involve an anonymous COVID-19 screening, and we are asking all those entering our clinic to please wear a mask if possible.
For more information or to book an appointment, please text/call Richard at 226-235-1247 or text/call Jessica at 519-520-1348. Texts and voicemails are replied to Monday to Friday, 9am – 5 pm.
The H.O.M.E Program was developed to improve the health outcomes and health equity of highly marginalized individuals by providing health services to people where they are at: shelters, encampments, housing, and in other community settings.
The program is a collaborative approach between the London InterCommunity Health Centre (LIHC), Middlesex-London Paramedic Service (MLPS), Addiction Services of Thames Valley (ADSTV), and Regional HIV/AIDS Connection (RHAC).
The inter-disciplinary team will provide primary care, harm reduction, support with substance use, basic needs, and wrap-around care services at various sites across the city. Two days a week, services will be offered from a Middlesex-London Paramedics Service Special Operations Bus that has been outfitted to deliver multiple health services. An emergency support SUV will be deployed three days a week to assist the H.O.M.E team in providing care to clients.
The program aims to engage individuals who face barriers to accessing traditional models of care in harm reduction, stabilizing healthcare, and comprehensive care services. Partners will work collaboratively from an anti-oppression, anti-racism, health equity framework anchored in a participant-led approach.
For more information please visit the website at www.homeprogram.ca or see our HOME-FAQ-EMAIL-WEB.
The HOME Program receives financial support from the Government of Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program. Financial support for the HOME Program is also provided by Ontario Health West.
The Health Centre was awarded the Excellence in Human Resources Award at the London Chamber of Commerce Business Achievement Awards! The pandemic has brought many new challenges to all organizations. At the Health Centre, our creative, dedicated, and caring staff have transformed our organization during these unprecedented times. Our staff have adapted to challenging circumstances and the evolving needs of our community. They have moved mountains to continue offering care for the people we serve. Thank you to everyone for your resiliency these past months!