Make anti-racism a strategic priority
Speakers
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Agenda
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10:00 am – 10:45 am
Anti-Racism in Healthcare: A Way to Improve Quality of Care for System as a Whole
10:45 am – 11:45 am
Eradicating Intolerance, Inequality and Unconscious Bias in Healthcare
- Impact of systemic racism on health outcomes and healthcare experiences
- Addressing incidents of racism in the health system
- ‘But I’m not the problem’: Acknowledging unconscious bias in health systems and in ourselves
- Actions taken by AHS to address systemic racism and unconscious bias
- How to be an Ally
11:45 am – 12:00 pm
Breakout Discussion Groups
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Lunch
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Making Services and Systems Safer and More Equitable for Indigenous People
- Understanding the harm of anti-indigenous racism in healthcare
- Embedding anti-racism accountability mechanisms into your organizations policy
- Beyond tokenism – Creating space for influence in governance and leadership
- Whistleblower hotlines to promote patient and employee safety
- Guidance on partnering and listening to indigenous communities
- Organizational development approaches that help to eliminate anti-indigenous racism
1:45 pm – 1:55 pm
Break
1:55 pm – 2:55 pm
CASE STUDY:
Driving Culturally Relevant System Initiatives at Centre of Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
- Learn about the importance of health equity in relation to the context of Indigenous health in Canada
- Acknowledge the opportunities to advance culture as treatment as part of CAMH’s efforts to reconcile the relationship with Indigenous peoples
- Gain an understanding of the culturally relevant CAMH services available for First Nations, Inuit and Métis patients, service providers and communities
- Discuss efforts to support transformative change throughout the healthcare system in Canada
2:55 pm – 3:55 pm
Institutional Racism in Hospitals, an Australian Perspective
- Disparity in Indigenous health in Australia
- Racism: individual vs institutional
- Institutional racism effects
- Measuring and managing institutional racism in a hospital setting
9:40 am – 10:40 am
The Science of Driving Sustainable Inclusive Change
- Measuring the impact of your initiatives
- Metrics and KPIs
- Mapping and monitoring the various parts of your business that are key to your success
- Applying the rigour reserved for other important business functions to D&I
- How to measure the right things, the right way
- How to use science backed metrics and data to drive effective change in your organization
10:40 am – 12:00 pm
Legal Obligations When Dealing with Intentional and Unintentional Racism Towards Patients and Employees
- Dimensions of racism
- An understanding of how unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, micro-invalidations, and subconscious stereotyping impact our decisions and actions at work
- Harassment prevention policies that address all forms of discrimination
- Ensuring training that covers the full dimensions of racism
- Criteria of a robust investigation
- Considerations for progressive discipline in a unionized environment
- Ongoing and proactive monitoring
- Implementing an effective complaints process
- Discuss recent court and tribunal decisions, policies, guidelines
- Strategies to mitigate the impact of unintentional racism in the workplace
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Lunch
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Applied Tools and Organizational Interventions for Addressing Racism in Healthcare
- Key dimensions of equity-oriented health care
- Let’s talk Whiteness and health equity
- Strategies to enhance organizational capacity for equity-oriented healthcare
- Rate your organization – EQUIP Healthcare worksheet and guidance
- Health equity in practice – the RIPPLES framework
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Inside Mayo Clinic’s 5 Step Process for Handling Bias Patients
- A litmus test of organizational culture and leadership
- Our journey to developing a model for staff to deal with racism while preserving patient’s rights and safety
- Balancing appropriate and necessary care to patients while maintaining a supportive work environment for staff
- Culture of responsibility
- The Mayo SAFER model
- Patient and visitor conduct policy
2:30 pm – 2:40 pm
Screen Break
2:40 pm – 3:10 pm