{"id":28779,"date":"2025-08-05T14:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cisss-at.gouv.qc.ca\/?page_id=28779"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:34:04","slug":"cultural-safety","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cisss-at.gouv.qc.ca\/en\/cultural-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"maincontent\">\n<div id=\"page-standard\" class=\"container main-content contain-page\">\n<div class=\"row main-content-inner\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12\">\n<p>Cultural safety is an approach to care and services initially developed by a M\u0101ori 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec.ca\/en\/government\/quebec-at-a-glance\/first-nations-and-inuit\/profile-of-the-nations\/about-nations\">To learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Ongoing projects<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Petapan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Petapan project, jointly supported by the Centre int\u00e9gr\u00e9 de sant\u00e9 et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l\u2018Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue and partners of the\u00a0<em>Comit\u00e9 strat\u00e9gique en itin\u00e9rance<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Petapan:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisss-at.gouv.qc.ca\/securisation-culturelle\/petapan\/\">https:\/\/www.cisss-at.gouv.qc.ca\/securisation-culturelle\/petapan\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Indigenous Health Clinic, Val-d'Or Native Friendship Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CISSS de l\u2019Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Service navigators and liaison officer<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To contact this resource :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Val-d'Or<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c9lise Blais-Dowdy, Indigenous liaison and navigation officer<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:elise.blais-dowdy@ssss.gouv.qc.ca\">elise.blais-dowdy@ssss.gouv.qc.ca<\/a><br \/>\n819 527-4126<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisss-at.gouv.qc.ca\/partage\/SECURISATION-CULTURELLE\/2024-067_AGENT-LIAISON_VD_Eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Service details<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisss-at.gouv.qc.ca\/partage\/SECURISATION-CULTURELLE\/horaire_elise.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural safety is an approach to care and services initially developed by a M\u0101ori nurse in New Zealand in response to health disparities affecting her people. 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