NCCIH partners on a SSHRC/CIHR five-year initiative
Culturally agile healthcare services in northern BC
November 2018
The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH) is a major partner on a new five-year initiative entitled, “Cultural Agility in Northern BC’s Healthcare System: Increasing Indigenous Employment Participation and Responsiveness to Indigenous Well-being”, launched October 1, 2018 at the Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George, BC. The initiative, which is jointly funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), builds on a previous two-year initiative focused on making the healthcare workforce more inclusive and culturally safe for Indigenous peoples. This initiative aims to use decolonizing community-based research methods to explore how to implement ‘culturally agile’ healthcare services in northern BC that support, especially Indigenous, people from northern and rural places to enter and remain in healthcare professions and ensure the healthcare system is safer for all Indigenous peoples.
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Diversify the health care workforce within British Columbia
October 2016
The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH) is one of the partners on a successful Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) proposal entitled, Increasing First Nations Employment Participation and the Responsiveness to Indigenous Well-Being within BC's Northern Health Authority: A Decolonizing Humanities-Based Approach. Co-investigators Drs. Margo Greenwood and Sarah de Leeuw will lead this 2-year project which aims to Indigenize and diversify the health care workforce within British Columbia’s Northern Health Authority. The grant is also designed to set the groundwork for a larger research project in northern BC, also focused on making the healthcare workforce more embracing of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous worldviews. Greenwood and de Leeuw are focused on understanding how the employment environment within the health sector can better attract and be more advantageous for First Nations, how to increase non-Indigenous health care workers’ understandings of the unique sociocultural of Indigenous peoples, and how creative research tools might provide more successful means of gathering stories and reaching conclusions about making healthcare sectors more culturally safe for Indigenous peoples and ways of knowing.