Description and Content

The responsibility to reduce harm and provide culturally safe care for all people is a mandated social imperative for all Canadian health care and service providers.

Culturally safe health care practice moves beyond the mere acknowledgment of the differences that multicultural patients bring to the healing relationship. It requires an examination of the impact of practitioner assumptions and implicit bias on the state of the therapeutic relationship. Self-reflection is, therefore, essential to the provision of culturally safe care.

This experiential and interactive one-day course will help you develop a deeper understanding of the social and systemic contributions to the experiences of various marginalized people in the health care setting. You will also be able to better understand and address recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada mandate.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Build a framework to navigate cross-cultural approaches and beliefs on illness and ways of healing as a health coach or navigator.
• Responsibly advocate for culturally safe care on behalf of multicultural and marginalized clients and communities.
• Explore historical and contemporary societal contributions to racism and its impacts on the social inclusion and exclusion of various groups of people.
• Understand the impact of socially constructed biases on socially marginalized groups with a specific focus on the Indigenous First Nations peoples of Turtle Island.