Posted on: April 5, 2024
Continue your learning journey and register today for the San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Program.
Sign up online for the San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Core Health or Core Mental Health courses at www.sanyas.ca and click on registration. Use your Island Health email address to register and waive the $300 fee. This self-paced, facilitated online learning module can be completed over a period of 8 weeks and takes about 8 - 10 hours.
In the Core Training course, staff members are introduced to key aspects of cultural safety and addressing anti-Indigenous racism. Participants will:
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Strengthen their knowledge, awareness, and skills for working with and providing service to Indigenous people and communities
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Learn to work more safely and effectively with Indigenous people
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Reflect on their role in steps to correcting, rebuilding and transforming systems to uproot Indigenous-specific racism
This is a facilitated, self-directed online training program. Participants do not need to be logged in at any specific time as long as they complete by the closed date. The program includes interaction with other course participants and the facilitator in the discussion boards and journal entries.
A welcome pack goes out the Friday before the group starts at 12:30 pm (PT) with additional information for logging into the training on or after the start date. It is not recommended working through all of the material in one sitting. There is a lot of new information and breaks are needed to integrate the learning.
Island Health pays for the course for staff. Please consider your ability to complete this course before registering. Staff should begin with the Core Health course and then register for Bystander to Ally, 4-6 months after completing Core Health.
Ready for the next level of understanding? San'yas offers advanced training From Bystander to Ally. This course explores how you can become an effective ally when witnessing racism, bias, or stereotypes directed towards Indigenous people. This e-course takes place over 6 weeks and is also facilitated and self-paced.
The Bystander to Ally (BTA) course provides additional information, encourages critical self-reflection, and teaches practical skills that can help people become more effective allies. Participants learn ways to assess and respond to situations in which bias, discrimination, or racism is suspected.
Participants of BTA learn tools and strategies that they can apply in their workplaces and daily lives. In applying the teachings from this course, participants can become powerful agents for change in their personal and professional lives.
Who should take this course?
BTA is designed for people who have completed one or more Core Training courses and wish to enhance their skills in speaking out and advocating for social justice for Indigenous people. To learn more, visit online at https://sanyas.ca/advanced-training.
To register for Advanced Training – please email Yula.Stevens@islandhealth.ca
Island Health pays $300 for each staff spot so we hope you see the value in this important and dynamic learning. If you are unable to complete it you will NOT be able to retake the course for two years. If you are new to this learning, please register for the Core Health or Core Mental Health; if you have taken Core Health/Core Mental Health, please sign up for advanced Bystander to Ally training.
If you have access to the Learning Hub, there are info pages for both Core ICS Health and Core ICS Mental Health training there. The ‘Start Course’ links on both pages lead to the main registration page.
Thank you for your interest in this important cultural safety learning journey – the role of non-Indigenous Canadians is fundamental to reconciliation. Your support to uproot anti-Indigenous racism and promote cultural safety for Indigenous people can save lives.
San'yas means “way of knowing' in Kwak'wala, the language of the Kwakwaka'wakw Peoples.
For additional questions and to enquire about other learning opportunities, please email the Indigenous Health Cultural Safety team at CulturalSafetyEventsCalendar@islandhealth.ca.