2022-2023 Grant Recipients

Continuation of the Prince George Cultural Humility and Competency Working Group (Prince George)

A project to continue the work and goals of the PG Cultural Safety Working Group during their application process for further Health Authority funding. Elders involved in the Working Group were compensated for their time during a final round of meetings before the group disbanded in May 2023, due to changing circumstances and departing leaders. The project therefore closed early and only the first gate of grant funding was released.

With funding support from the previous BCCFP grant cycle, the group had been very successful with its efforts to get patient-facing videos displayed in the Urgent Care triage room to increase cultural safety and inclusivity for patients and install Indigenous art works into the triage room.

A place of welcome: expressing care, safety and humility through patient intake forms (Surrey-Langley)

A collaborative project to incorporate cultural safety and humility principles into redrafted patient intake forms and processes in Fraser Health. A group practice that includes at least a dozen familly physicians worked with consultants in health equity to: gather and apply guidance from local Indigenous-created resources; assess and revise their clinic’s patient intake forms from a cultural safety lens, and put them into practice; develop materials and plan for a knowledge-sharing event (to be held in October 2024) to share their experience with other local family physicians and advise them about the process for updating their own forms with cultural safety in mind.

Cowichan District Hospital Emergency Department Cultural Humility Learning and Development Plan Community Engagement Project (Duncan)

A jointly funded project to co-create a Cultural Humility Learning and Development Plan for the Emergency Room of Cowichan District Hospital in collaboration with local Quw’utsun leaders and Elders. Representatives from Cowichan Tribes, Malahat Nation, Halalt First Nation, Lyackson First Nation, Stz’uminus First Nation, Penelakut Tribe, Ditidaht First Nation, Pacheedaht First Nation, Ts’uubaa-asatx Nation and Cowichan Valley Métis First Nation were all contacted to participate in interviews that would inform the new Cultural Humility Learning and Development Plan.

Integrated locally planned cultural safety KAIROS blanket exercise (Lillooet)

A jointly funded project with Interior Health to deliver the KAIROS blanket exercise course in collaboration with local Tit’qet leaders and Elders of the St’at’imc Nation, to introduce concepts around cultural safety and humility to local physicians in Lillooet. Collaboration was with members of Interior Health regional operations, Divisions of Family Practice, and Community Health Directors from each of the five St’at’imc communities and many participating physicians felt it would immediately help their care of St’at’imc people in the emergency department.

St. Paul’s Hospital Perinatal Substance Use Program (Vancouver)

The BCCFP portion of this jointly funded project enabled a family physician specializing in maternity care to work together with Indigenous community partners at KilalaLelum Urban Indigenous Health Centre and members of the Indigenous Wellness team at St. Paul’s Hospital to incorporate learnings from Indigenous patients into the work of the Perinatal Substance Use program.

Journey Home Project: Knowledge translation for the next generation of Palliative Care Providers (Saanich)

A project to work together with members of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation community, to share lessons and learnings from the palliative care Journey Home Project (JHP film project) with non-Indigenous providers at Saanich Peninsula Hospital and surrounding community practices. The basis for this sharing is the co-creation and dissemination of a toolkit for Palliative Care/Journey Home Care Providers, including Indigenous-specific resources for providing care. The project also illuminates palliative care as a specialty practice amongst family physicians.