The Aboriginal Healing Foundation was an Indigenous-led, not-for-profit organization that was established in March 1998, after receiving funding from the government of Canada. The Foundation supported community-based projects in First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities across Canada. Its vision was to facilitate healing for "all who are affected by the legacy of physical, sexual, mental, cultural, and spiritual abuses in the Indian residential schools" so that unresolved trauma was "addressed, in a comprehensive and meaningful way" thus "putting to an end the intergenerational cycles of abuse, achieving reconciliation in the full range of relationships, and enhancing their capacity as individuals, families, communities, nations, and peoples to sustain their well being" (
AHF website). The Foundation also conducted original research into the legacies of residential schools, including intergenerational impacts.
AHF ceased operation on September 30, 2014. In May 2023, the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) took over the hosting of archived versions of the English and French sites.
