Addressing Racism and Discrimination in Canada’s Health Systems Program – 2022 program recipients

The following organizations received funding under the 2022 call for proposals:

The following organizations received funding under the 2022 call for proposals:
Organization	Project title	Description	Primary focus	City, province	Total
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Saskatchewan	Cultural Humility Training in Saskatchewan	This project aims to implement a 1-day cultural humility training course for health services providers in Saskatchewan where member friendship centres currently reside. Plans are to expand training to all of Saskatchewan. Focus is on helping staff at Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) acute care facilities bridge the gap between the Indigenous community and SHA. The goal is to deliver at least 10 in-person training courses in each participating friendship centre community, develop lessons learned, reports, data, and provide recommendations on future training. Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	Training, human health resources (HHR)	Saskatoon, SK	$928,291
Athabasca University	Addressing Racism and Discrimination: MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) Development	Design, implement and evaluate an accessible massive online open course (MOOC) for healthcare providers and other health services to students and professionals. Course will increase competence in providing culturally safe and high-quality services to Indigenous Peoples. It will be able to accommodate a huge number of students. Learners will: independently explore content (free access to all learners) work through flexible, self-directed learning across 2 courses resulting in micro-credentials work toward completing a 3-credit undergraduate or graduate course with instructor-led engagement and formal assessment This project has national reach. It is directed to First Nations, Inuit, Métis, remote/rural Indigenous peoples, all genders and healthcare providers working with racialized and marginalized communities. Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	Training, HHR	Athabasca, AB	$776,575
File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council Inc. (FHQTC)	Indigenous Primary Care and Cultural Healing Centre - Fort Qu'Appelle	The project will close the current service delivery gaps for Indigenous Peoples while providing opportunities for enhancing community health services in culturally appropriate ways. This model builds on FHQTC's affiliated entities, which deliver innovative programming that incorporates Indigenous cultural wellness and healing processes in other areas of the health system, particularly mental health, addictions services and services for at-risk clients. This project seeks to build on this capacity and experience by integrating these techniques into a primary care clinical setting. Together with their partners in the health system, FHQTC will create an Indigenous cultural wellness clinic that will deliver a range of primary health care services to Indigenous clients in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	Acute Care	Fort Qu'Appelle, SK	$770,000
First Peoples Wellness Circle	First Nations Knowledge and Evidence: Taking Action on Systemic Racism through Cultural Safety	A cultural safety training curriculum will be developed for mental health professionals that is grounded in experiential learning. It will apply a cultural lens to increase understanding about First Nations beliefs, values, experiences and understanding of health and wellness. A cultural safety measurement tool will also be developed that First Nations peoples can use to evaluate the cultural competency of organizations and practitioners. This model will increase the capacity of mental health professionals in New Brunswick to provide culturally safe and inclusive mental health services for First Nations populations. Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	Training, HHR	North Bay, ON	$1,000,000
Health Standards Organization	Cultural Safety in Accreditation, Assessment of Standards, Methods, Testing and Engagement	The project will include co-designing with Indigenous partners a cultural safety and humility assessment standard, assessment methods, resources and accreditation program activities. These will be used by health systems and health and social services organizations from across BC, to reflect Indigenous values and knowledge sources and meet the health and wellness priorities of Indigenous Peoples and communities. Indigenous partners from across Canada will also be engaged in assessing the needs and designing a national cultural safety and humility standard that health and social service organizations across Canada can use to address systemic racism and discrimination experienced by Indigenous Peoples and communities in Canada's health systems. Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	HHR, Acute care	Ottawa, ON	$999,010
University of Manitoba	Improving Indigenous Cultural Safety in Manitoba: Advancing a Multi-level Strategy	In-depth learning modules will be developed that go beyond the fundamental stages of cultural safety, to include more advanced topics such as application, clinical practice and leadership. Focus will be on the diverse roles-based needs within health professional education, public health and health care systems. The project fills the gap of the current MICST (Manitoba Cultural Safety Training)approach between education, clinical practice change and health systems change that are necessary to improve the patient experience. Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	Training, HHR	Winnipeg, MB	$996,175
Victoria Native Friendship Centre	Cultural Safety for Healthcare Practitioners: Train-the-Trainer Toolkit	The cultural safety training curriculum will be finalized for health care professionals and a toolkit developed. The curriculum and toolkit will be designed for scaling and sharing with other organizations across British Columbia. Indigenous community facilitators and workers will pilot the project and provide feedback based on their knowledge and lived experiences. The recipient will work with its network of 280 active Indigenous Elders to develop the materials. Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	Training, HHR	Victoria, BC	$317,250
Yukon Hospital Corporation: First Nations Health Programs	Growing Our Community: Cultural Safety and Indigenous Representation in Yukon's Acute Care	This project involves: hiring an Indigenous nursing mentor who will advance a long-term strategy to recruit and support more Indigenous nurses across Yukon, and develop nursing-specific cultural safety policies, standards and education material providing community outreach activities and workshops, developing opportunities to work in the health system and advancing culturally safe hospital policies for Indigenous youth engaging Indigenous youth to develop and distribute life promotion kits and cultural interventions for Indigenous patients admitted to acute care for mental health concerns to ensure Indigenous patients have access to culturally rooted mental health and self-care materials that promote and affirm life while in hospital Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	HHR, acute care	Whitehorse, YT	$339,401
Médecins du Monde Canada	La navigation Autochtone, mieux intervenir auprès des personnes Autochtones	Create a training program to: raise awareness of the issues and barriers to access to care for people from urban Indigenous communities who are homeless propose tools to better intervene, better reach and accompany people from Indigenous communities give an overview of the various realities experienced in health systems by people from Indigenous communities present Aboriginal navigation as a culturally safe approach within the public health system for people from Indigenous communities Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	Training, HHR	Montreal, QC	$327,465
Lakeridge Health, Central East Indigenous Cancer Program	Supporting Central East Indigenous Communities: A Systems Response to Prejudice in Healthcare	Better support the health-related needs of Indigenous community members in the central east region by: improving coordination and access to supports responding to the presence of racism and prejudice present in health care institutions The 3 main components are: develop and deliver cultural safety training based on local Indigenous Knowledge and history for regional health care staff, thus promoting more culturally appropriate care for Indigenous patients develop a voluntary self-identification process to increase accessibility to services for self-identifying Indigenous patients and families develop a complaints process for instances of racism and prejudice that are experienced by Indigenous patients Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	Training, HHR	Oshawa, ON	$356,000
Canadian Association of Midwives (CAM)	Dismantling Anti-Indigenous Racism in Reproductive Health Care	Under the guidance and in partnership with the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives (NACM), integrate and embed training in cultural safety. Also combat anti-Indigenous racism across midwifery education, from pre-service (the midwifery bachelor's degree program) to in-service education and accreditation requirements. The goal is to effect personal, institutional and systemic change by developing impactful and innovative anti-Indigenous racism training. The training will address cultural safety and humility, provide meaningful implementable actions for allyship and increase institutional adoption of Joyce's Principle. It will also recognize and provide space and support for Indigenous midwifery students and midwives in practice who experience racism and discrimination. Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	HHR, acute care	Montreal, QC	$855,787
University of Winnipeg	Developing and Piloting Indigenous Community-Based Perinatal Support Worker Training	The project will address systemic racism and discrimination against Indigenous women and gender-diverse birthing people in the health care system. While the project's initial scope is Winnipeg, the university plans to mobilize the knowledge gained by establishing connections with other Indigenous birth work organizations in Canada. The project involves developing, implementing and evaluating an Indigenous community-based perinatal support worker curriculum. Participants will be given perinatal instruction intended to provide culturally safe care that incorporates traditional approaches to health and wellness and addresses the current health inequities faced by Indigenous birthing people in Winnipeg. Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	Training, HHR	Winnipeg, MB	$1,000,000
Ontario Native Women's Association	Mindimooyenh Indigenous Women's Health Curriculum	A curriculum focused on Indigenous women's health across the lifecycle will be developed. The curriculum and resources will be piloted among frontline Indigenous staff in 10 sites in Ontario and non-Indigenous health care workers in Thunder Bay. The project incorporates the lived experiences of Indigenous women, Elders, youth and health care professionals. Its goal is to reduce racism and discrimination against Indigenous women within Ontario's health system and improve access to culturally safe health services. The hope is to develop a curriculum that can be provided on a wider scale across Ontario, and eventually to other Canadian provinces and territories. Project duration: March 1, 2022, to March 31, 2024	Training, HHR	Fort William First Nation, ON	$653,833
The Ottawa Hospital	Advancing Culturally Safe Care for Inuit in the Canadian Health System	The project aims to advance culturally safe, wrap-around care for Inuit in Ottawa, to improve patient experiences and health outcomes for Inuit in health care settings. It involves: educating health care staff on anti-racism and discrimination providing traditional Inuit materials and food in acute care settings creating engagement structures with Inuit and health organizations conducting post-education evaluations using an existing Indigenous-led evaluation platform Project duration: April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024	Training, HHR	Ottawa, ON	$825,922
Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association	Cultural Safety in Health Systems: Indigenous Nurses and Nursing Perspectives	Resources, tools and strategies will be developed to reduce systemic racism and discrimination and advance health equity for Indigenous Peoples by addressing cultural safety across health systems from a nursing perspective. The project aims to: understand the current state of standards, policies and programs aimed at cultural safety and cultural safety practices in health systems at the policy, structural and practitioner levels develop resources and tools to establish cultural safety practice standards in nursing and Indigenous populations develop a defined set of priority cultural safety indicators to measure cultural safety practice standards in nursing practice design and conduct knowledge translation and evaluation activities to advance knowledge sharing Project duration: April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024	HHR, Acute care	Ottawa, ON	$750,000

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