Indigenous Cultural Safety & Humility

Featured Work

In 2022, BC Renal provided educational resources and opportunities for employees, as well as engaged in short and long term planning with PHSA Indigenous Health, to support Indigenous cultural safety and humility in kidney care.

To date, 85% of BC Renal staff have completed Sanya’s Indigenous Cultural Safety Online Training, with remaining employees expected to complete the course in the coming year.

In June, staff learned more about the significance of land acknowledgements in a webinar hosted by the Can-SOLVE CKD Network, and in mid-September, they participated in an in-person KAIROS Blanket Exercise to better understand the impact of colonialism and discuss how they would carry the experience forward in their personal and work lives. Later that month, BC Renal marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation with a networkwide message including links to a range of resources.

For short and long-term planning, a working group focused on developing an Indigenous Kidney Health Strategy in collaboration with PHSA Indigenous Health. Identified goals include:

• Building authentic relationships with

Indigenous partners and organizations • Expanding educational opportunities across the network

• Enhancing culturally-safe communication

• Developing a training program for medical trainees

• A recruitment strategy to ensure

Indigenous representation at BC Renal • Advancing Indigenous patient experience and health outcomes

Other Highlights

• Participated in PHSA’s Anti-Indigenous

Racism Response Training Pilot

Program • Collaborated with BC Transplant and the BRIDGE to Transplantation initiative on the development of a new website, with a focus on storytelling and

Indigenous ways of knowing • Continued to be a funding partner of

Can-SOLVE CKD, including support for: • the Kidney Check program, which provides culturally appropriate, individualized diabetes and kidney health screening, support and follow-up in rural and remote Indigenous communities • a set of webinars and a guidebook to support authentic, purposeful land acknowledgements

Web info & resources:

Can-SOLVE CKD Wabishki Bizhiko Skaanj Learning Pathway At BC Renal and across the renal network, we are committed to taking action to address antiIndigenous racism in kidney care, and advancing cultural safety and humility. With the support of our colleagues at PHSA Indigenous Health, we have spent this past year codeveloping a strategy that will in the initial phases focus on building authentic relationships with Indigenous health partners and strengthening cultural safety and humility. Together we aim to close the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people with or at risk of kidney disease, resulting in improved health outcomes and experience for Indigenous peoples.

Dr. Michael Copland Senior Medical Lead, BC Renal