The Health Services Integration Fund (HSIF) is an initiative supporting collaborative planning and multi-year projects aimed at better meeting the health-care needs of First Nations and Inuit.
Through HSIF, Indigenous Services Canada is working with other provincial, territorial and First Nations and Inuit organizations to:
- improve First Nations and Inuit access to health services through cross-jurisdictional collaborative initiatives
- improve the service-level integration of federally, provincially and territorially funded health programs and services for First Nations and Inuit
- adapt the respective territorial or provincial governments’ health programs and services to better serve First Nations and Inuit
- integrate traditional First Nations and Inuit healing methods and cultural practices into the health system
- support the collaboration of First Nations and Inuit with partners in the planning, delivery and management of health programs and services
- build the capacity of Indigenous peoples to control the design, delivery and management of health programs and services