New Respect Cultural Safety Program Revisions 

The New Respect Indigenous Cultural Safety (CS) Program aims to deliver effective online, Indigenous-led cultural safety training to health service professionals including nurses, physicians and social service providers, as well as Kindergarten to post-secondary educators. The goal of the training is to address systemic anti-Indigenous racism by improving participants’ culturally sensitive communication, collaboration and community engagement skills when working with Indigenous peoples. This project aims to provide widely accessible foundational and profession-specific online CS training and and to evaluate whether the training has an effect on participants’ social, emotional, physical and spiritual behaviour. These funds follow the conclusion of the pilot of the New Respect Indigenous Cultural Safety Program, and have been leveraged to analyze data from the initial pilot, address any identified issues and relaunch with a view to expanding the number of faculty, staff and students who engage with the Program.