Nunavut Resources

The Home and Community Care (HCC) program helps Nunavummiut care for themselves with help from family and community members and to keep their sense of independence and well-being.

While cancer treatment is not available in Nunavut, they do have various support services, including mental health care. Visit this website to find a facility in your community.

The Department of Health offers medical travel benefits to ensure you have access to medical services unavailable in your home community.

The GN offers community-based, regional, and out-of-territory mental health and addiction services. Different types of therapy can provide help and healing. The following are examples of different interventions; the best treatment is often a combination.

The Department of Health provides the following rehabilitation services free of charge to all Nunavut residents with a Nunavut Health Care Card: Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology, and Community Therapy Assistants.

To register for the Nunavut Health Care Plan, you must fill out an Application for Nunavut Health Care Coverage form. You can find that form here