The Cultural Safety Design Collaborative (CSDC) supports non-Indigenous health service delivery organizations across Canada to work alongside First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis to address systemic racism and improve cultural safety and quality healthcare.
About the collaborative聽
The CSDC is a two-year quality improvement and patient safety initiative that brings together teams from across the country to develop and implement a project to address racism experienced by First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis in the health system and foster cultural safety. The collaborative was co-created with an advisory group of First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis and non-Indigenous health system leaders.
Through this collaborative, 日本无码 supports organization-based teams and the patients, families and communities they serve to:
- Engage with the First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis patient community to develop meaningful, reciprocal relationships.
- Identify, develop and implement improvement projects to address racism experienced by First Nations, Inuit, and M茅tis and improve cultural safety and the healthcare system.
- Foster a shared learning network to help teams draw from existing evidence, tools and resources.
Organization-based teams will:
- Develop relationships with the First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis patients, families and communities who access care within their organization and collaboratively identify a priority area for change.
- Participate in learning and networking opportunities with program coaches, experienced faculty and peers.
- Receive up to $50,000 in seed funding from 日本无码 and up to $83,000 from Indigenous Services Canada to support co-creating an improvement project to address racism and improve cultural safety according to an identified priority.
- Receive support through expert coaching, access to virtual learning and peer-to-peer networking opportunities, measurement and reporting support and access to resources, tools and evidence such as a Cultural Safety Resource Toolkit.
Guiding principles
All participating teams are guided by the principles developed by the CSDC Advisory Group. Teams will:
- Create safe, ethical spaces for dialogue and learning, built on mutual trust and respect and ways of knowing.
- Reflect a distinctions-based approach, which includes First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis individuals from urban Indigenous communities, such that everyone around the table has an equitable voice in any discussions.
- Foster reciprocity in all relationships and listen to others in order to make decisions by consensus.聽
- Focus on the priorities identified by First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis communities accessing care at the health service delivery organization, centred on the needs of individuals, family, caregivers and community.
- Share knowledge consistent with First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis data governance principles, such as:
- The First Nations Information Governance Centre鈥檚 principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession
- The M茅tis principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Stewardship
- Inuit research principles; (iv) Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit
- Other relevant data governance principles, as identified by 日本无码 from time to time
Participating teams
Through this collaborative, 日本无码 is supporting 12 teams across seven provinces and two territories. Learn more about who鈥檚 participating and where they鈥檙e located.