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.
Time Stamps:
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
27:55 – Outro
Resources:
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: Learni
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