The lack of culturally appropriate and respectful health services creates a gap in the continuity of care for Aboriginal people. Health services for Aboriginal communities need to provide respectful care that is based on a community framework of health, including integrating traditional health and healing knowledge to inform service delivery.

The workshop will include presentations from experts and health programs that bring together service providers and communities to provide culturally safe models of care. The aim of this workshop is to:

• Discuss practical and ethical issues in providing culturally safe health services
• Increase accessibility of knowledge on issues and practices in cultural safety
• Discuss strategies for creating culturally safe health services through examples
• Identify community-based research priorities to examine culturally safe health care
• Facilitate the creation of materials to support culturally safe care

This session is the pre-conference workshop for the 20th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

All are invited to join us on Sunday May 13th at 6pm at the Royal BC Museum, First People’s Gallery, for the Opening Ceremony of the XXth Annual Conference, with performance by Summer Sage.(Gala tickets $25)

Register online at: http://www.canac.org/Members/English/Conference.html register as a CAHR Delegate for free registration.

CAHR in partnership with the Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Posters: Cultural Safety Workshop poster

For info contact Lloy Wylie lloyw@uvic.ca