Our mission is to partner Indigenous Elders with physicians and allied health professionals to provide physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual care to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside community.
We acknowledge that the land on which we work is the traditional, ancestral and unceded homelands of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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Our Programs
Primary Care
Cultural Wellness Programming
Mobile Outreach Program
Social Navigation
Food Is Medicine and Food Security Program
Relational Care
Chronic Pain Management
Research
Education and Training
DUDES Club
Reclaiming Our Spirits
Indigenous Wellness Resource Hub
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Our partners
Very helpful. I’m very busy trying to help everyone. Trying to get my life on track. Drug use and homelessness. Van [Mobile Outreach Program] is very helpful. Literally don’t have time to go to a clinic. Saves So much time. Super professional staff.
Anonymous member
I like that we have the butterfly [logo]. I like that we have the Kilala Lelum name. I like that it’s like.. instantaneously known and honored that we are Indigenous led.
Indigenous Staff members
I call it a canoe, but we have the member [patient] at the very center giving us a direction and we all paddle together to help that member get where he wants or she wants to be.
Indigenous Elder
When you know about residential schools or … about Indian hospital systems…. bearing witness to and honoring that history and thinking about how to reconcile that history is part of our daily work.
Primary Care Providers
News
Kilala Update: December In Review
Members Market
One of our members set up as a vendor during our Members Holiday Market selling their hand-made wreaths.
As we move into the…Read more
January 10, 2023
Kilala Update: January In Review
Kilala Lelum Stands With DULF
Kilala Lelum team attending the DULF rally to support Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, co-founders of the Drug User Liberation…Read more
May 31, 2021
Kilala Update: February In Review
33rd Annual Woman’s Memorial March
For 33 years, on February 14th folks have taken over the streets of the Downtown Eastside to march and…Read more