Indigenous Services
Honoring Culture and Community in Every Service
Indigenous Organizations provide a trusted space where community members can access culturally safe services, engage with traditional teachings, and build supportive networks.
Whether a Friendship Centre, family support agencies, housing support, healing programs, or multi-service centres, you provide far more than basic services. You weave together counseling, cultural programming, housing referrals, youth and elder support, and more, often all under one roof.
Mareto is purpose-built to support your unique approach, streamlining your operational tasks so you can spend more time nurturing relationships, facilitating cultural connections, and empowering community resilience.
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Respect and uphold Indigenous data sovereignty through secure, encrypted, Canada-based data hosting. Mareto ensures that your community’s stories, knowledge, and sensitive information remain protected, confidential, and handled in accordance with your community protocols, Canadian privacy standards, and the First Nations Principles of OCAP® (Ownership, Access, Control, Possession).
Referral Tracking & Interagency Collaboration
Easily coordinate wraparound care, track referrals between services, and foster collaborative community relationships that ensure seamless support for your community members. For example, if you refer a youth to a mental health clinic or help an elder connect with a housing provider, you can record and follow up on those referrals, ensuring that everyone involved in a person’s care stays informed, enabling proper wraparound support across organizations.
Multi-Program Case Management
Honour each individual's journey by capturing their story holistically across counseling, cultural programs, and housing, respecting cultural protocols and values from initial engagement through ongoing support. Easily track their needs, community referrals, and service outcomes in ways that resonate deeply with Indigenous practices of care.
Culturally Respectful Customization & Workflows
Customize forms, intake processes, and automate workflows to reflect your culture, language, and values, whether it’s capturing traditional names, clan affiliations, or tailoring assessment questions. Mareto enables effortless event planning, attendance tracking, and reporting, allowing you to focus on delivering rich experiences rather than managing paperwork.
Holistic Impact Reporting
Show the full story of your impact, like the number of people served, program outcomes, and progress metrics, with qualitative narratives. Document personal success stories, feedback from elders, and community milestones alongside the numbers. The result is powerful community impact reports that honor individual journeys and cultural context, while also satisfying funder requirements with solid data.
The Benefits for Your Organization.
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Spend less time on paperwork and more time strengthening genuine, trusting relationships with community members and families.
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Easily customize client intake forms and case notes to reflect traditional teachings, cultural sensitivity, and respectful protocols.
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Support your staff with easy-to-use collaboration tools, reducing administrative burdens and fostering stronger teamwork and collective well-being.
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Handle sensitive community information with utmost care, maintaining ownership and control of your data while ensuring it remains within Canadian borders under your community’s governance.
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Effortlessly track participation and outcomes of your cultural programming, clearly demonstrating how your centre supports cultural identity, healing, and community wellness.
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Quickly produce reports that effectively communicate your organization's outcomes, enhancing your capacity to secure sustainable funding and advocate for community priorities.
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Stay agile with immediate insights into community needs, enabling your team to adapt services and proactively address emerging issues, keeping your organization responsive.
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Working across different programs and partners to provide wraparound care, easily tracking referrals, and collaborating in real-time.
Your Questions, Answered.
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Mareto can be configured to support your organization's data-governance requirements. We work with you to understand how information should be collected, accessed, stored, retained, and exported. Because each First Nation determines how the Principles of OCAP® apply to its information, we adapt the implementation to the governance direction established by your organization and community.
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Yes. We work with your team to configure forms, terminology, permissions, and workflows around your organization's approved practices. You decide what information should be collected, why it is needed, and who should have access.
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Yes. Mareto can bring multiple programs into one system while maintaining appropriate separation between records, workflows, permissions, and reporting. During implementation, we map how your programs work together and identify what should be shared or kept separate. We then design the configuration and access model around those requirements.
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Yes. We can configure reporting around the outcomes and information your organization has chosen to collect. This may include quantitative measures as well as community-defined evidence and feedback.
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Yes. We have worked with Indigenous organizations, including Tungasuvvingat Inuit, to support more coordinated services and referrals. You can learn more about that work in our Tungasuvvingat Inuit case study.
Case Study: Tungasuvvingat Inuit
Coordinating Support Across Nearly 30 Programs
Tungasuvvingat Inuit provides nearly 30 culturally grounded services for Inuit individuals and families in Ontario. Mareto's published case study describes its work supporting service navigation, referrals, and cross-program coordination. Confirm the description and permission for this page, then link readers to the complete case study.
“The work we do at Tungasuvvingat Inuit is rooted in supporting Inuit children and families in culturally grounded, relational, and community-led ways. Mareto helps our ability to navigate services and referrals more efficiently, helping us provide more coordinated, wrap-around support when families need it most.”
— Tungasuvvingat Inuit
Read the full Tungasuvvingat Inuit case study
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