What is Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility and Anti-Racism?
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Cultural safety, cultural humility, and anti-racism work together to create respectful, equitable environments for Indigenous peoples. Fostering spaces where identity and experience are honoured, encouraging ongoing self-reflection to address personal and systemic biases, and taking active steps to challenge and change the structures that perpetuate racism.
Cultural Safety
Cultural Humility
Anti-Racism
Why Focus on Indigenous People?
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Indigenous people enjoyed good health and wellness on their lands and territories for thousands of years prior to the arrival of Europeans to present-day Canada. Their active lifestyles, healthy traditional diets and cultural practices contributed to their overall good health and longevity.
In the 1700s, with the arrival of Europeans, all of that changed. Smallpox, influenza, measles, and whooping cough spread through contact with Europeans caused significant population collapse within Indigenous communities, as traditional health systems had never encountered these diseases and were unprepared to deal with them.
With Indigenous people in a weakened state, a colonial agenda to control their lands and people began. European governments and churches repressed Indigenous health care systems, spirituality, political authority, education, land and resource access, and cultural practices. The impacts of colonialism on Indigenous people persist today – they appear as poor health outcomes, cultural and linguistic losses, dislocation, marginalization, and systemic exclusion of Indigenous philosophies and practices of health and wellness.
We all share a responsibility for acknowledging this history and for working toward reconciliation. As healthcare providers, one step toward healing these relationships is creating an environment of cultural safety within healthcare settings.
Learn more about the history of Indigenous health pre and post contact by reading “Our History, Our Health” written by the First Nations Health Authority.
Cultural Safety is a Foundation of the Primary Care Network (PCN)
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The Cultural Safety & Humility Strategy for the Campbell River & District Primary Care Network (PCN) was developed in partnership with the Indigenous Advisory (IA) Committee and was informed by the Campbell River & District Division of Family Practice, First Nations Health Authority and Island Health
Vision: Care is culturally safe for Indigenous patients.
Mission: Integrate key principles of cultural safety, anti-racism, and decolonization across the Campbell River & District Primary Care Network (CRD PCN).
How We Will Achieve This:
- Supporting Primary Care Network providers, staff and community with the awareness of available services within the Campbell River & District catchment.
- Supporting the Cultural Safety & Humility learning journey of primary care providers and staff.
- Strengthening connection and engagement with key partners to support culturally safe care that reflects local priorities.
- Ensuring Campbell River & District Primary Care Network onboarding and HR processes reflect cultural safety, cultural humility and anti-racism language
- Measuring and monitoring the impact of this strategy for patients and providers.
Local Nations
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Services and Support for Indigenous Patients
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