Understanding Trauma-Informed Practice and Engagement

Date and Time: February 7, 2023, 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

Location: Zoom

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Learnings 

This webinar featured speakers with lived experience of receiving, providing and leading care. This virtual learning event focused on: 

• How structures of inequity, privilege and oppression amplify and re-create trauma by prioritizing the needs of specific groups (i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gender, non-Indigenous).   
• Intergenerational and historical trauma and its effects in the context of engaging with those with lived experience of the health system. 
• The role of the healthcare system in inducing or perpetuating trauma among those who have past experiences of trauma. 

Speakers 

• Claire Snyman, (she/her), CMA Patient Voice 
• Carolyn Shimmin (she/her), George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation 
• Jake Starratt-Farr (he/they), CMA Patient Voice             
• Sudi Barre (she/her), CMA Patient Voice                        
• Tammy White Quills-Knife (she/her), CMA Patient Voice 

Co-Hosts 

• Denise McCuaig, Métis Elder/Indigenous Coach 
• Carol Fancott, Director, Patient Engagement & Partnerships, HEC

Resources 

• Article: The coin model of privilege and critical allyship (Stephanie A. Nixon, BMC Public Health) 
• PDF: CMA Patient Voice Guide: Trauma Informed Engagement & Resources (CMA) 
• Webpage: The First Nations Principles of OCAP (FNIGC/CGIPN) 
• Book: Have You Filled a Bucket Today? (Carol McCloud)