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Addictions Prevention and Recovery Services in the Northwest Territories: Report of the Auditor General of Canada to the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly
Addressing Institutional Racism Against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia in Mainstream Health Services: Insights From Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
Using a case study by the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) to examine ways to address institutional racism.
Addressing Racism in the Healthcare System: A Policy Position and Discussion Paper
Addressing Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Trafficking as Co-Morbidities in Missing or Murdered Indigenous Populations
American Indian and Alaska Native Knowledge and Public Health for the Primary Prevention of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons
Attitudes Toward Evidence-Based Practices for Trauma-Impacted American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Does the Role of Culture Even Matter?
Examines the need to shift away from the traditional evidence-based practice (EBP) treatments towards a more cultural-sensitivity when dealing with trauma amongst Indigenous people.
Barriers to Culturally Safe Care for Indigenous Peoples: A Key Informant Perspective
Centering Indigenous Voices to Inform the Delivery of Culturally-Appropriate Mental Wellness Services
Collaborative and Systems Approach to Transforming Primary Health Care in Manitoba First Nations Communities
Looks at the use of a more borderless health care system for Indigenous communities to meet their specific needs.
Community Journey of Change Through Relational Determinants of Health
Discusses ways to both address colonization and create a culturally relevant means to improve Indigenous health.
Community-led Recovery from the Opioid Crisis through Culturally-based Programs and Community-based Data Governance
Examines the community-based opioid agonist treatment (OAT) program Naandwe Miikan (The Health Path).
Cultural Competency Standards Regarding Practical Nursing with Indigenous Peoples
Cultural Safety in Emergency Support Services
Culturally Safe Engagement: What Matters to Indigenous (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) Patient Partners?: Companion Guide
Discusses eight key principles: awareness and understanding, learning and education, building relationships, preparation, kindness and empathy, respect, value and listening. Principles were developed during an online Culturally Safe Engagement event in June, 2021.
Developer/Adapter Method: A Community-Based Approach to Improve Health in Indigenous Communities
Looks at the use of a more wholistic and culturally relevant approaches to Indigenous health care.
Effectiveness of Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Among First Nations, Métis and Inuit Populations
Scan of published literature with a focus on cultural and need-based interventions.
Evaluation of the Effects of the Quebec First Nations and Inuit Faculties of Medicine Program (QFNIFMP): Final Report 2019-2020
Evaluation of the Health and Social Services System in Nunavik: The User’s Perspective
Related Material: Executive Summary.
Findings Associated With a Novel Program Designed to Support Indigenous Faculty Members of U.S. Health Professions Schools
Looks at the development of a program created to address the challenges of Indigenous faculty at American colleges.
Giving Voice to Cultural Safety of Indigenous Wildland Firefighters in Canada: Final Report
Honouring Indigenous Women’s and Families’ Pregnancy Journeys: A Practice Resource to Support Improved Perinatal Care Created by Aunties, Mothers, Grandmothers, Sisters, and Daughters
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Indigenous Peoples of the Region of the Americas: Perspectives and Opportunities: Report on the High-Level Regional Meeting, 30 October 2020
The Importance of Culture in Alcohol Care: Listening to First Nations staff in Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
Looks at the use of a bi-cultural approach to address alcoholism within Indigenous communities.
Improving Dementia Care for Gitxsan First Nations People
Identifies ways of incorporating Gitxsan knowledge of dementia to help nurses incorporate more culturally safe practices to deal with Indigenous elderly patients in British Columbia.
In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in BC Health Care
Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility and Anti-racism Learning
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Indigenous Cultural Safety Training for Applied Health, Social Work and Education Professionals: A PRISMA Scoping Review
Review looked at articles on cultural safety and competence training published between 1996-2020 in Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand.
Indigenous Self-Governance for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
It’s a Journey Not a Check Box: Indigenous Cultural Safety From Training to Transformation
Discusses educational and training approaches being employed to address racism experienced by Indigenous people seeking health care.
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
Making Allyship Work: Allyship Perspectives in a Community-Based Research Study
Measuring Cultural Safety in Health Systems
Medical Experimentation and the Roots of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Moving Toward Indigenous-Centred Perinatal Care in Urban Quebec
Examines the use of Abinodjic as a wholistic approach to childcare that aligns with Indigenous cultural practices.
Ne-Iikaanigaana Toolkit 'All Our Relations': Guidance For Creating Safer Environments For Indigenous Peoples
Discusses strategies health care organizations can employ in areas of community, education, relationships, Indigenous partnership, wholistic continuum of care, self-determination and culture in order to create a inclusive environment for Indigenous patients.
The NSW SAS Cultural Safety Toolkit
"Our Gifts are the Same”: Resilient Journeys of Long-Term HIV-Positive Two-Spirit Men in Ontario, Canada
Paddling Together for Culturally Safe Emergency Care for Elders
Addresses the reluctance of Nuu-chah-nulth elders to seek health care through a two day workshop between the Nuu-chah-nulth people and BC health care providers to brainstorm recommendations to improve emergency care.
People's Report: First Nations and Diabetes in Ontario
A Positive Youth Development Perspective on Mental Distress Among American Indian/Alaska Native Youth
Promoting Healthy Medication Use Through Indigenous Knowledge Sharing: A Coyote Story
Looks at the creation of a traditional Coyote story as a strategy to address Polypharmacy, "when multiple medications are being taken and the benefits no longer outweigh the risks", for Indigenous patients.
Psychological First Aid for COVID-19 Frontline Workers in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities
Putting Indigenous Harm Reduction to Work: Developing and Evaluating “Not Just Naloxone”
Evaluates the use of more traditional holistic culturally sensitive approaches to address harm reduction for Indigenous people and communities.
Reproductive Justice and Indigenous Women in Saskatchewan: Overview and Recommendations
Sacred and Strong: Upholding Our Matriarchal Roles: The Health and Wellness Journey of BC First Nations Women and Girls
“A Sacred Undertaking” towards Developing an etuaptmumk (Two-eyed Seeing)-framed Collaborative Research Project and Partnership: The Sanctum 1.5 Hope Through Strength Project
Strengthening Indigenous Australian Perspectives in Allied Health Education: A Critical Reflection
Looks at ways to address health inequality for Indigenous Australian populations by adding Indigenous perspectives into health practices.
Widening the Circle of Care: Digital Stories of Community-Based Caregiving in a Mohawk First Nation
Using digital storytelling to identify the importance of cultural identity for the care-giving of those living cancer within the Mohawk Nation of Kahnawake.