Niagara College

Description:

This course prepares learners to address social and health inequities and promote culturally safe, anti-oppressive and trauma-responsive practices. Learners will be able to contribute to positive change in the social and health outcomes of Indigenous and equity-denied communities by addressing historical and ongoing injustices and promoting approaches to care grounded in cultural humility, anti-racism, accessibility, intersectionality, collaboration, inclusion, equity and justice. Drawing on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action, this course guides learners in framing a personal orientation to relationality and Indigenous-Settler reconciliation in Canadian colonial contexts. Learners will engage in reflective and reflexive practice to consider how lived experience, positionality, intersectionality, power imbalances, personal and professional values influence dynamics in therapeutic relationships with individuals they support.