[Report] A Refreshed Approach: Framework for Effective Cultural Safety and Humility and Indigenous-Specific Anti-Racism Education and Training

A Refreshed Approach: Framework for Effective Cultural Safety and Humility (CSH) and Indigenous-Specific Anti-Racism (ISAR) Education and Training provides a practical blueprint for CSH and ISAR education and training, with all of its dynamic and non-linear pathways of learning, to have a shared language and understanding that enables greater consistency, benchmarking and measurement. It is also a conceptual framework for how CSH and ISAR education and training can achieve its goals through transformative learning that takes place simultaneously at the individual and organizational levels.

The intended audience of the Framework are the developers and facilitators of CSH and ISAR education and training programs and organizational leadership. For program designers and facilitators, the Framework provides criteria and reflection questions to assess the depth and breadth of CSH and ISAR programs from a wholistic lens with a focus on personal development and growth. For organizational leadership, the Framework provides criteria to review the degree to which CSH and ISAR concepts and practices are embedded into the organization more broadly.

This Framework acknowledges that both individuals and organizations are shaped by each other and by broader social systems, and that individual and organizational growth occurs in dynamic, interconnected ways. Due to this complexity, education and training on its own is often the least effective way to disrupt harmful patterns, stereotypes and race-based discrimination. The Framework provides guidance for leadership to align organizational values, policy and management practice with the core tenets of CSH and ISAR education and training towards more proactive, effective and meaningful efforts to improve the health system for Indigenous clients and colleagues.

Read the Framework below.