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Cultural Safety & Humility
Strengthen your culturally safe care through our comprehensive programming. Access learning modules, register for sessions, explore resources, and connect with partners committed to advancing cultural safety in family medicine.
Building Cultural Safety Together
Indigenous peoples have the right to access a health system that is free from discrimination in their own lands and territories, as well as to feel safe and cared for when receiving health services. They deserve to be treated with respect and have their health concerns taken seriously.
BCCFP acknowledges the harm and pain caused to Indigenous people and their communities as a result of systemic racism and discrimination within our healthcare system. We believe that family physicians have a role to play in reconciling past and present injustices.
In November 2019, we signed the BC First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) Declaration of Commitment to Cultural Safety and Humility The signing signals a shared intention to advance cultural safety and humility among family physicians involved in the delivery of health services to Indigenous Populations in BC.
National Indigenous History Month
Every June, we honour the history, resilience, and rich culture, traditions and experiences of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples across Turtle Island.
The BC College of Family Physicians acknowledges the harms and injustices that Indigenous people have experienced, and continue to experience, in the health care system.
Throughout this month we will be sharing stories that speak to the inequities faced by Indigenous people as well as stories of healing and resilience.
A History We Must Know: Harms in Health Care Against Indigenous Peoples
The residential school system and the forced sterilization of Indigenous women are two of the most documented harms committed against First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples through Canada's health care system. Their effects are not distant history, they are present in Indigenous communities today. This post reflects on that record and shares resources from Indigenous-led organizations.
Cultural Safety Grants
BCCFP created a Cultural Safety Grants Program aimed at supporting family physicians to continue or initiate new culturally safe practices, and the program forms part of our ongoing Declaration of Commitment to Reconciliation and addressing anti-Indigenous racism and inequity in health care.