Grants and Contributions:

Cultural Safety Facilitator for Indigenous Health

BC21799

$46,165.00

Nov 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to address the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Victoria Native Friendship Centre will achieve this by addressing systemic racism and misogyny within South Vancouver Island healthcare by developing an Indigenous Safety in Healthcare Advisory Committee, hiring a cultural safety facilitator to support Indigenous women and girls through the Women’s Health Empowerment Circles, and develop and deliver cultural safety training for Indigenous and non-Indigenous healthcare workers. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change. The project will result in 12 Cultural Safety Training sessions delivered to healthcare workers and 15 Women’s Health Empowerment Circles for Indigenous women and girls. Statistics will be collected to inform policy and practice change documents that will improve Indigenous women’s experience of healthcare on South Vancouver Island overall. Partner agencies will assist in building networks, communication of project and recruitment of staff for training. Supplemental funding in January 2024 will be used to hire and fully train Cultural Safety Training facilitators, sustainability facilitators and a marketing consultant.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Women and stakeholders have access to supports to address issues relating to equality between women and men.

Victoria, British Columbia, CA V8Z 1J6

001-2023-2024-Q4-00073

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Aboriginal recipient

Jan 22, 2024

Victoria Native Friendship Centre

Women's Program

The purpose of the Women’s Program is to advance equality for women in Canada by working to address or remove systemic barriers impeding women’s progress and advancement. The WP supports the Government of Canada’s goal of advancing gender equality in Canada. It is consistent with Government of Canada priorities related to economic prosperity, and supports Canada’s international commitments related to gender equality.