Sentences with phrase «culturally safe systems»

Unequivocally, discriminatory laws in Australia must be removed from current statutes and decolonising law needs to be understood as legislatively incorporating: listening and responding to Indigenous voices and knowledge; implementing culturally safe systems; and allowing for the retention of community control justice programs.

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Marginalized youth in the child welfare system, including LGBTQ youth and youth of color, deserve culturally competent, safe, and supportive care.

The common themes include: a shared negative experience of colonisation and cultural disruption, including in many cases catastrophic declines in physical, spiritual and cultural health and wellness over multiple generations; the consequent desire among First Nations to regain Indigenous self - determination and self - governance in order to nurture healthy and happy future generations; the need to understand cultural differences in how the meanings of health and wellness are understood and applied at the community, family and individual levels, and to therefore identify culturally appropriate responses, including traditional modalities and safe systems of care; the significance of cultural diversity between different Indigenous groups or communities within both countries; the differing needs and circumstances for Indigenous health and wellness in urban, regional and remote settings; and the challenges of delivering health services to remote communities in often harsh environments.

This is a timely moment for everyone who works in or around the health sector — whether in patient care, in policy or politics, in governance, education, workforce, public health or other areas — to reflect upon what they are doing to help ensure a health system that is more culturally safe for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, whether as patients or employees.

He also made the point that there can not be a culturally safe health system without Indigenous people being part of the health workforce.

It's important that we capture the stories from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people because it's their stories that will help us understand how we can better improve our health system, particularly in how we deliver our care in a safe, kind and culturally - sensitive way.

The Association argues that the most promising path to combat racism and close the gap in Indigenous health outcomes is to actively pursue «an equitable number of Indigenous doctors and other health professionals supported by a culturally safe health system».

• Michael Greco, CEO of the online patient experience feedback initiative, Patient Opinion, invites Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to engage with the site «because it's their stories that will help us understand how we can better improve our health system, particularly in how we deliver our care in a safe, kind and culturally - sensitive way».

We also seek to create a health system that is culturally safe, high quality, reflective of need, and respects and integrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural values.

A culturally safe healthcare system not only encourages Indigenous doctors, but is positive also for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and an extremely important step in closing the health equity gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

We are now able to use this information to effect real change in eradicating racism, bullying and lateral violence from the medical workforce, and to progress the implementation of a culturally safe healthcare system.

Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) asserts that a strong and visible commitment by governments to building a culturally safe and responsive health system that provides equitable access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to allied health services is required in order to really make a difference.

At AIDA we are committed to eradicating racism, bullying and lateral violence from the medical workforce and progressing a culturally safe healthcare system.

This is our priority because we know that a culturally safe healthcare system that is free from racism, bullying and lateral violence is a healthcare system that will nurture Indigenous medical students and doctors and inspire all doctors to be better healthcare professionals.

Invest in making health systems accessible culturally safe and appropriate, effective and responsive for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; and

Knowing and acknowledging this history is particularly important for health systems and professionals, given that current Australian health dialogue supports the development of culturally safe services and practices, and this requires an understanding of one's own profession's historical complicity in such events.

I have developed a resource to help increase awareness of culturally safe and effective, evidence - based wellbeing programs specifically for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custodial and forensic systems.

Braybrook says a big priority is to provide a safe place — physically and culturally — for Aboriginal women after prison, so they don't reoffend or breach parole, like the Wulgunggo Ngalu residential diversion program for Aboriginal men, which a Corrections evaluation found is «widely valued and supported throughout the justice system».

This will require a significant shift for many health professionals working within these systems, to ensure their practice is culturally safe and that their clients have access to effective, evidence - based programs.

... We need a system that justice system that is best practice and culturally safe for Aboriginal children faced with detention.

Australia's failure to provide a culturally safe and fair justice system for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is bound up with many other colonial legacies that contribute to health inequities.

Culturally safe health care systems and environments are established by a continuum of building blocks — cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, and cultural competency.

The Victorian Aboriginal Palliative Care Program aims to create a sustainable and culturally safe palliative care service system for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Brach & Fraser [10], also suggest that culturally safe and competent services will translate into better health via the impact they have on improved communication, increased trust in the health system, greater knowledge about health and services in the local community and expanded cultural understanding within the health system.

A workforce that reflects the local community supports a culturally safe health system for everyone.

Supporting the health care system to be culturally safe for Indigenous people is one of our top priorities.

A workforce that reflects the community, supports a culturally safe health system for everyone.

Following are examples of how Northern Health has made system changes to be more culturally safe.

The examples described in this article represent only a small glimpse into the ongoing work by Northern Health and the Aboriginal Health team in collaboration with Indigenous communities, to build a culturally safe health system for Indigenous people in northern BC.

Such a workforce will also assist to shape a culturally safe, high quality health care system that is capable of supporting real improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes.