decolonization truth and reconciliation

The Mental Health Commission of Canada is holding public consultations on a proposed approach to promote more equitable access and outcomes in mental health policy and programs. The IDEALSS framework integrates intersectionality, decolonization, health equity, anti-racism, lived and living experience, social determinants and sex- and gender-based analysis models.

Realizing Human Rights in Mental Health

(in partnership with the Empowerment Council, Eviance, and Transforming Communities for Inclusion)

Colonial Trauma and Wholistic Healing Practices: Supporting Prisoners and Ex-prisoners

March 27, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Giselle Dias

The Colour of Justice: Recognizing Indigenous, Black, and Racialized Voices Within the Context of Mental Health and Justice Services

“I do not want to say the wrong thing”: A Facilitated Discussion Addressing Systemic Racism, Racial Trauma, and White Supremacy

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The Colour of Justice: Recognizing Indigenous, Black, and Racialized Voices Within the Context of Mental Health and Justice Services

“I do not want to say the wrong thing”: A Facilitated Discussion Addressing Systemic Racism, Racial Trauma, and White Supremacy

Truth Not ‘Wreckonciliation’: Starting and Continuing a Path of Anti-colonial Learning and Action

September 19, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Jennifer (Jen) Poole

What if the History Books Lied?: Colonial History, Contemporary Impacts, and Social Work Implications

Tuesday, September 13, 2022 | 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET

Presented by: Dr. Ruth Green

This online workshop will draw on an anti-racism and anti-Black racism perspective to examine social justice, systemic change and resistance in Ontario’s youth sector.

We will explore strategies promoted as part of anti-racism efforts such as critical reflexivity, organizational accountability and Black youth capacity building, and interrogate their applicability to racial justice and Black youth wellbeing.

Decolonizing Research

August 22, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Amanda Thompson

Calling all Social Work  and Mental Health Researchers! Join this upcoming webinar from the OASW Learning Centre to explore strategies for applying a decolonizing lens and approach to research planning and methodology.

Decolonizing Social Work

June 15, 2022 @ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Giselle Dias, MSW, RSW, Program Director, Centre for Indigegogy, Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University

Decolonizing Trauma from an Indigenous Perspective

March 24, 2022 @ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Tina Armstrong, BSW, MSW, Elder-in-Residence at Wilfred Laurier University

This webinar will focus on helping practitioners ground themselves within their own positionality while working with Indigenous people who continue to experience colonial trauma. Practitioners will learn about wholistic approaches to enhance their current practice and will have an opportunity to understand trauma from an Indigenous wholistic lens.

Centering Two-Spirit and Indigenous experiences and ways is critical for more respectful, reciprocal, relevant, and responsible health research. Two-Spirit is often equated to an LGBTQ Indigenous participant, thereby rendering this community’s unique experience and history invisible and erasing important distinctions. This type of scholarship becomes a site of colonization.

The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is hosting the 2020 Indigenous Health Conference (IHC). The focus for this year’s conference is the future and how we can cultivate the youth as tomorrow’s leaders and agents of change. Topics will include youth leadership, suicide prevention, impact of colonization, murdered and missing Indigenous women, determinants of health, Indigenous ways of knowing.

For a glimpse of Canada’s planning and governance in play for Indigenous Peoples – useful right now to take a look at this half hour documentary by the NFB in 1956 – and consider how policy development echoes and more to the point rings out to us today.

Traumatic Stress, Trauma-Informed Care and Clinician Wellbeing

Harry Zeit MD currently works full-time practicing trauma therapy and psychotherapy. He is certified in sensorimotor psychotherapy, completing the final level of training in 2013. Previously, he worked as an American board-certified emergency physician in Cambridge and Toronto, Ontario, between 1983 and 2005.

The School of Health Policy & Management, the Indigenous Council, and the Faculty of Health in conjunction with Ryerson University are honoured to present Dr. Barry Lavallee as part of the 2019-2020 Indigenous Lecture Series on Indigenous Health and Decolonisation. 

Over recent years in the context of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples be it indicated  by acknowledgements at the get go of meetings or announcements of policy’s and initiatives, there has remained a sense for me we are not going about reform and change very well.  Mary McPherson’s drawing “Reconcile What?” helped to wake me up.