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Cultural safety

Cultural safety is an approach to care and services initially developed by a Māori nurse in New Zealand in response to health disparities affecting her people. There are various reasons that support the importance of cultural safety in the health and social services system. These reasons include restoring and supporting equity for Indigenous peoples, recognizing the existence of inequities for Indigenous peoples, and addressing these gaps through appropriate practices.

Quebec is home to eleven Indigenous nations (10 First Nations and the Inuit nation), each with its own distinct identity, history, language, and culture. Indigenous and non-Indigenous people have long lived side by side without ever truly getting to know each other. Now is the time to meet the people who have lived in Quebec for thousands of years and whose lives are closely intertwined with this land. To learn more.

 

Ongoing projects

Petapan

The Petapan project, jointly supported by the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l‘Abitibi-Témiscamingue and partners of the Comité stratégique en itinérance, was approved by the ministry of Health and Social Services. The ministry is providing funding to enable the project's implementation. Petapan, meaning "dawn" in the Anicinabe and Cree languages, focuses on providing shared local services through a motorized vehicle that has traveled the streets of Val-d'Or since summer 2022. The project aims to provide appropriate services to homeless people, based on the needs themselves have identified.

For more information about Petapan: https://www.cisss-at.gouv.qc.ca/securisation-culturelle/petapan/

Indigenous Health Clinic, Val-d'Or Native Friendship Center

The CISSS de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue is a partner of Mino Pimatisi8in, an initiative developed through extensive consultation with the Val-d'Or Native Friendship Center. This project is an innovative response to renew the health and social services offer, in order to increase accessibility to these services, to build well-being and to improve the health and living conditions of Indigenous people living in urban areas. Through this initiative, the Indigenous Health Clinic aims to reduce health and social inequalities among First Nations and Inuit peoples.

 

Service navigators and liaison officer

In order to support and accompany Indigenous people in their care and service experience and promote mutual understanding of the information exchanged between caregivers and patients, there is resource available in Val-d'Or.

To contact this resource :

Val-d'Or

Élise Blais-Dowdy, Indigenous liaison and navigation officer
elise.blais-dowdy@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
819 527-4126
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