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New Relationships: A Dialogue about Co-Creating Initiatives to Strengthen Substance Use Programs & Services For First Nations, Inuit and Metis People Kat Hinter Aboriginal Addiction Knowledge Exchange Leader Drug Treatment Funding Program Provincial Hea lth Services Authority & Interior Hea lth Authority Diane Smylie Addiction Knowledge Exchange Leader Drug Treatment Funding Program Provincial Health Services Authority Bradley Anderson Program Director, Abo riginal Health Interior Health Authority

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Page 1: New Relationships · 2019. 9. 6. · New Relationships: A Dialogue about Co-Creating Initiatives to Strengthen Substance Use Programs & Services For First Nations, Inuit and Metis

New Relationships: A Dialogue about Co-Creating Initiatives to Strengthen Substance Use Programs

& Services

For First Nations, Inuit and Metis People

Kat Hinter

Aboriginal Addiction Knowledge Exchange Leader

Drug Treatment Funding Program

Provincial Health Services Authority & Interior Health Authority

Diane Smylie

Addiction Knowledge Exchange Leader

Drug Treatment Funding Program

Provincial Health Services Authority

Bradley Anderson

Program Director, Aboriginal Health

Interior Health Authority

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“A health care system reflects the values of its community”

Dr. Graham Meadows

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1. Interior health authority regional engagement sessions with Aboriginal people:

"What is/is not working with the health authority-'s addiction services for Aboriginal people?.~.~

Initiatives that were co-created between

Aboriginal people and the addiction knowledge

exchange leaders within the health authorities

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Findings from Interior region engagement

. sess1ons:

4 Themes:

Relationships

Cultural Safety

Access

Capacity Building

Initiatives that were co-created between

Aboriginal people and the addiction knowledge

exchange leaders within the health authorities

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2. Welcoming spaces projects in Interior and Fraser health authorities -outcome of engagement

. sess1ons

Initiatives that were co-created between

Aboriginal people and the addiction knowledge

exchange leaders within the health authorities

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3. Trauma-informed practice in Aboriginal community (pilot)

Initiatives that were co-created between

Aboriginal people and the addiction knowledge

exchange leaders within the health authorities

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• The process is usually the most important outcome

• Can be healing but can also undermine healing

• Allowing/encouraging people to "re-shape" agenda & timelines

• Trying to translate what's meaningful & important to community back to HA­sometimes challenging

• Dialogue with community about mental health & substance use can be complex - (prevalence, roots in colonization)

What are we learning?

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• What does it look like?

• How will we know if we are

moving towards it?

• How can we support it?

Dialogue on decolonizing

approaches (process)

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• Kat Hinter

• 778-257-4510

[email protected]

• Diane Smylie

• 604-313-1463 CONTACT INFO: • [email protected]

• Bradley Anderson

• 250-320-5551

[email protected]