Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Virtual Learning Exchange

Healthcare Excellence Canada hosted several virtual learning opportunities aimed at building our collective capacity to be equitable and inclusive in our work, as we engage with a broad diversity of people with lived experience of the health system.

Spring 2023 series: Mobilizing Action and Dismantling Systems of Oppression, Inequality and Inequity in Healthcare

This series explored practical approaches to mobilizing collective action towards dismantling systems of oppression, inequality and inequity in healthcare.

These sessions featured examples of initiatives designed to address inequity within healthcare organizations and systems to help participants build an understanding of approaches that help foster more equitable and inclusive engagement with a broad diversity of people in the health system.

To view the recordings of each session and related presentations and resources, please visit the individual event pages.

Winter 2023 series: Promoting Health Equity Through Trauma-Informed Practice and Engagement 

This series explored trauma-informed practice and engagement as a basis for fostering the safe and trusting relationships needed to engage meaningfully with individuals from equity-deserving groups.   

The sessions examined practical approaches to trauma-informed practice and engagement and instructive case studies to help participants build their capacity to promote health equity. 

To view the recordings of each session and related resources, please visit the individual event pages.

Exploring Anti-Oppression Practices and Unconscious Bias in Our Work (January - March 2022)  

This three-session series laid the foundation for taking an anti-oppression approach to equity, diversity and inclusion.  

The first two sessions introduced the Coin Model of Privilege and Critical Allyship (Nixon, 2019), a framework for understanding the impact of unearned advantage and disadvantage produced by social structures that uses an intersectional approach to analyze systems of inequality. The learning in these sessions supported participants to reflect on their own positionality, as an opening for understanding and challenging systems of inequality to create more equitable care.   

Using the Coin Model as its foundation, the third session provided a case study that invited participants to further reflect on unconscious bias and its impact on different people, including within a healthcare environment.  

To view the recordings of each session and related presentations and resources, please visit the individual event pages. 

More about the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Virtual Learning Exchange  

Through a series of webinars and guided reflections, the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Virtual Learning Exchange supports those working in healthcare, those with lived experience and others to: 

• Understand systems of inequity that continue to marginalize different people in the healthcare system and undermine their access to safe, quality care.  
• Explore existing biases and structures using an anti-oppression framework.   
• Identify and apply approaches for including those who have traditionally been excluded from patient engagement because of systemic barriers.  

The Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Virtual Learning Exchange is co-designed with an advisory group with diverse perspectives of the health system, including those with lived experience, pan-Canadian health organizations, and provincial quality councils.