Alyssa Pelletier, an Indigenous Mental Health and Substance Use Lead, shares her story as a Métis woman discussing Indigenous cultural safety in the healthcare system.
0:00 – Welcome and guest intro and background
0:15 – Land Acknowledgement
0:23 – Trigger warnings notification around:
Grief and loss, Indigenous cultural genocide and trauma, Indian hospitals and residential schools.
0:35 – Hello and guest self introduction
2:11 – Approach to work in mental health and substance use with compassionate lens
3:06 –Trigger warning: Loss of parents
3:58 – The support of community to lean on- Trigger warning: colonization and targeted trauma
4:50 – Traditional approach to substance use and mental health
5:28 – Self care vs collective care
6:38 – Prioritizing collective care at work
7:39 – In Plain Sight Report, looking at discrimination at work
Trigger warning: racism and discrimination
9:35 – Challenges for Indigenous health care workers
11:22 – Trigger warning: Indian hospital and residential school trauma
12:04 – Empathetic and informed approach based on history of Indigenous people in Canada
12:25 – Equitable care in marginalized populations – Trigger warning: discrimination
13:01 – Recognizing privilege and putting in the work to learn
13:47 – Cultural safety in health care
15:55 – Quadrants of the medicine wheel
17:15 – Supporting mental health of Indigenous colleagues
19:45 – What your work means to you – Trigger warning: loss of patient
23:20 – Having a connection with the people you lost
24:12 – Creating inclusive and culturally safe workplaces
26:02 – Changes that need to be made on a system level
27:10 – Prioritizing our health care workers
27:30 – Thank you and wrap up
Care to Speak | Care For Caregivers
SafeCare BC: Your Mental Health Matters
BC College of Nurses & Midwives: Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility, and Anti-racism Practice Standard Companion Guide & Videos
Culturally Committed | Cultivating Culturally Safe Care
Len Pierre Consulting: Podcast & Youtube Channel
First Nations Health Authority: Cultural Safety and Humility Resources
University of Alberta: Indigenous Canada free online course
Two Spirit: Learning Hub and PHSA
Building Bridges through Understanding the Village: The Village Workshop Series
Circle in a Box: Services (lenpierreconsulting.com)
Indigeneyez - IndigenEYEZ – Empowering People – Strengthening CommUNITY
Kairos Blanket Exercise: Kairos Blanket Exercise
Land-based cultural tours for staff: Sto:lo Tourism (stolotourism.com)
Organizational Transformation & Unlearning Anti-Indigenous Racism (workshop series): Facilitated Workshops — Nahanee Creative Consulting & Design
Workshops | Shannon Beauchamp
Support for Indigenous Peoples:
Indigenous Health Liaisons, Fraser Health Authority: 1-866-766-6960
Indigenous Patient Navigators, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority: 1-877-875-1131
Indigenous Mental Health Liaisons, Fraser Health Authority
First Nations Wellness Navigators in First Nations Health Authority
Home - Hope for Wellness Helpline: 1-855-242-3310
Tsow Tun Le Lum: 1-888-403-3123
Indian Residential School Survivor Society: 1-800-721-0066
KUU-US Crisis Line Society: 1-800-588-8717
Métis Crisis Line 1-833-MetisBC: 1-833-638-4722
Home - Hope for Wellness Helpline: 1-855-242-3310
Kids Help Phone - Indigenous people can connect with an Indigenous volunteer crisis responder, when available, by messaging FIRST NATIONS, INUIT or METIS to 686868 for young people and 741741 for adults
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