Chapter 14 of the NCCIH’s Indigenous cultural safety: An environmental scan of cultural safety initiatives in Canada highlights cultural safety initiatives developed and implemented in the Northwest Territories (NWT). The NWT has an integrated health and social services system and has been working to embed cultural safety for Indigenous Peoples into these services through several broad territorial actions. It is one of few jurisdictions in Canada to develop a framework for building a culturally respectful health and social services system. The framework is guided by an action plan to achieve equitable access to culturally safe and relationship-based care for Indigenous people, as well as implement cultural safety training to build a culturally safe and responsive workforce. Principles of cultural safety have also been built into strategies and action plans to address specific health issues, which are developed with extensive community engagement. The territory has established mechanisms for incorporating Indigenous traditions, cultures, and healing practices in the health system and for supporting communities to set their own priorities and run their own health programming. Limited cultural safety initiatives have been developed or implemented by organizations with a health mandate operating in the NWT.

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