Cultural Safety Pathway
Enroll to gain access to a practical tool to guide healthcare organizations on the journey to address racism and improve cultural safety for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
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- What you'll get
A clear and supported way forward to address racism and improve cultural safety, including:
Promising practices from healthcare organizations actively doing the work to improve cultural safety
Concrete actions you can take to make progress no matter where you are on your journey to address racism
Recommend resources that offer practical, actionable guidance to apply to your local context
Indicators to help identify and measure inequities and systemic racism
An organizational assessment to identify strengths, gaps, opportunities and priorities for addressing racism and advancing cultural safety
- Topics
- Cultural Safety
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About the Cultural Safety Pathway
You can think of this journey as a river. Each organization starts from a different place along the shore of the river shaped by their own context, relationships and histories. While the direction organizations take is shared, the path taken is not always the same. Still, there are shared waypoints, or steps, along the path that can guide meaningful and lasting progress. The steps you’ll explore on the pathway are:
Practising cultural humility
The work begins with listening – deeply and intentionally. Pause, reflect and understand the strengths, priorities and experiences of First Nations, Inuit and Métis patients, families and providers.
Building reciprocal relationships
Cultural safety is grounded in trust. You’ll explore developing genuine, reciprocal relationships and committing to relational accountability – walking alongside communities rather than acting on their behalf.
Strengthening ethical and responsible leadership
Leadership plays a critical role in advancing cultural safety. Explore how to embed cultural safety into organizational vision, strategy and decision-making, while ensuring commitments are honoured in meaningful ways.
Investing in sustainable change
Addressing systemic racism requires more than intention – it requires sustained investment. You’ll explore what it means to invest in First Nations, Inuit and Métis health, cultural safety and anti-racism efforts
Building and supporting a representative workforce
You’ll examine how to recruit, retain and uplift a workforce that reflects and advances cultural safety, including supporting staff in every role to contribute to safer, more respectful care.
Embedding practices, protocols and healing pathways:
Culturally safe care means making space for First Nations, Inuit and Métis practices, protocols and healing approaches. The pathway provides guidance on how to respectfully and meaningfully integrate these into care environments.
Delivering high-quality, equitable care
Ultimately, the goal is to ensure First Nations, Inuit and Métis patients experience care that is safe, respectful and equitable. Participants will learn how to embed these principles into everyday practice so that improvements are sustained over time.
Who should enroll
This learning Pathway is intended for individuals and teams looking for a deeper way to improve cultural safety for First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities, and how systemic racism impacts the quality and safety of care, including:
Healthcare and social care providers who want a deeper understanding of how racism and discrimination can influence care experiences and identify more advanced opportunities to support culturally safer care in their everyday practice.
Quality improvement and patient safety professionals looking to further integrate cultural safety into improvement initiatives and organizational change.
Health leaders, managers and decision-makers who want to support organizational efforts to address racism, strengthen relationships with First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities and foster culturally safer care.
Educators, facilitators and improvement advisors supporting learning, quality improvement and organizational change across healthcare settings.
Patient, family and caregiver partners, particularly First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners and those working alongside Indigenous communities, who want to contribute to culturally safer healthcare systems and improvement efforts.
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Join the Cultural Safety Action Network
The Cultural Safety Action Network is a virtual community of practice that brings together individuals working across the health system to address racism experienced by First Nations, Inuit and Métis and improve cultural safety.
The Cultural Safety Action Network offers a welcoming space to connect with peers from across the country, explore challenges and promising practices, and build relationships with others committed to advancing cultural safety. It’s open to anyone interested in learning, networking, and sharing experiences.
By joining, you’ll get:
Interactive virtual sessions
Opportunities to build connections and learn from individuals across different geographies, healthcare settings, and First Nations, Inuit and Métis contexts
A supportive space to discuss challenges, share experiences, and explore solutions
A chance to help identify resource gaps and inform future Cultural Safety Pathway resource development
Flexible participation as an individual or as part of a group; no participation agreement or long-term commitment required
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