Sharing Our Tools: A Workshop Series to Share Practical Tools for Unlearning & Undoing White Supremacy and Indigenous-Specific Racism for Population & Public Health

From 2021-2023, the BC Office of the Provincial Health Officer engaged in a CIHR and HRBC funded research project called, “Unlearning & Undoing White Supremacy in the OPHO” (The U&U Project). We built and used tools to unlearn, monitor, and undo white supremacy in our structures, policies, practices, norms, and values.

This is an important way we are working towards upholding instructions we have received, including in the Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & 2SLGBTQQIA+ Calls for Justice, and In Plain Sight Recommendations.

Elders and Indigenous health leaders have told us that our tools are valuable and trustworthy. Settler health leaders and practitioners have shared that our tools offer tangible and meaningful ways to pick up the work of eradicating Indigenous specific racism.

Now, we plan to build a series of hosted and self-directed workshops to share our U&U tools more broadly.

Aim 1 – Build workshop curriculum for our U&U Tools
Aim 2 – Deliver workshops throughout BC’s population & public health ecosystem
Aim 3 – Build a website & YouTube channel to share materials
Aim 4 – Submit tools & findings for publication in peer reviewed journals