🆕 WHAT’S NEW: Health care workers have a new opportunity to deepen their skills in Indigenous cultural safety through Giga mino ganawenimaag Anishinaabeg (We Will Take Good Care of the People).

THE BIG PICTURE: The training program, developed by Ongomiizwin, the Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing in UM’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, draws upon the knowledge and expertise of local Indigenous Knowledge Keepers and health-care leaders. It includes a range of activities and interactive features within online modules. In-person workshops will also be available. 

CONTEXT: The training is supported through a grant of nearly $1 million awarded to Ongomiizwin through Health Canada’s Addressing Racism and Discrimination in Canada’s Health Systems program. It will be implemented as a partnership between UM and Manitoba’s health regions.

OF NOTE: Cultural safety training has been provided to Manitoba health workers since 2015, however this is the first such program to be created in Manitoba.

GO DEEPER: See news coverage of the new program with UM Today News, in the Winnipeg Free Press and the Winnipeg Sun.