Presenter – First Nations Elder Bruce Robinson, Lexi Fisher, BSW, RSW, and Leah Walker, BSW, RSW, all with Kilala Lelum

Competencies –

• Domain 2 – Cultural safety & humility. Advocates for incorporation of the person’s and family’s cultural traditions, beliefs, expectations, and preferences into decision making, care planning, and service delivery models.
• Facilitates expression and inclusion of the person’s and family’s values, beliefs, and wishes during declining health and bereavement.
• Advocates for changes in policy to facilitate incorporation of culture into care.
• Domain 3 – Communication. Provides support, mediation, and advocacy in exploring and clarifying treatment goals and care planning.
• Domain 4 – Comfort & quality of life. Adapts care to address persons fears and anxieties related to past trauma.
• Understands, educates, and works with the person/family and inter-professional team about the interplay of spiritual, emotional, social, cognitive, and physical aspects of the person’s past experiences on their current quality of life.
• Domain 7 – Professional & ethical practice. Advocates at a system and community level
• Describe strategies and approaches people can use in their clinical practice to honour and value the stories of Indigenous peoples in a respectful way that builds trusting relationship and allyship, fosters connections, and allows Indigenous voices to be heard at all stages of life