Cultural Safety

The goal of cultural safety is for all people to feel respected and safe when they interact with health care services. Culturally safe health care services are free of racism and discrimination. People are supported to draw strengths from their identity, culture and community. This concept is relevant for your work with all families and children.

To learn about cultural safety and trauma-informed practice:

BC Association for Child Development and Intervention Cultural Safety and Trauma-informed Practice Resources https://www.bcacdi.org/directory-cultural-safety
Ball, J. (2008). Cultural safety in practice with children, families and communities.
Gerlach, A. J. (2012). A critical reflection on the concept of cultural safety. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 79, 151-158. doi: 10.2182/cjot.2012.79.3.4
Gerlach, A. J. (2018). Exploring socially-responsive approaches to children’s rehabilitation with Indigenous communities, families, and children National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. Prince George, BC.

E-Learning and Webinars

Aboriginal Health: For the Next Seven Generations of Children: FREE TO ALL
British Columbia Indigenous Cultural Safety Training (San’ya Indigenous Cultural Safety Training):FREE for Indigenous people (First Nations, Metis, Inuit) who live in BC who work in Health or Mental Health, and for anyone directly employed by a provincial health authority or the Ministry of Health. AVAILABLE FOR A FEE to anyone else.
Indigenous cultural safety webinars (Indigenous Cultural Safety Collaborative Learning Series): FREE TO ALL

Cultural Safety

E-Learning and Webinars

Spirit Bears Guide to Reconciliation: Utilizing Jordan’s Principle and the Spirit Bear Plan to achieve culturally based equity for First Nations Children