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Kukpi7 (Chief) Willie Sellars recently sat down with podcast hosts Tracy Mooney and Jade Chaboyer-Kondra to discuss Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Serving as Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) Chief since 2018, Chief Sellars also sits on Interior Health's Board of Directors.

Learn more

• Chief Sellars biography
• Williams Lake First Nation
• St. Joseph’s Mission Investigation
• Orange Shirt Society
• National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

How will you commit to truth and reconciliation?

• Register for the free HRx Truth and Reconciliation Webinar Sept. 26 ‘Embracing Truth for Meaningful Reconciliation’
• Check out the Orange Shirt Day Toolkit on the InsideNet
• Familiarize yourself with the Residential School sites in the Interior Region
• Read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)’s Calls to Action

Additional Orange Shirt Day resources and events

• Watch Phyllis Webstad - On Orange Shirt Day
• Register for the Yellowhead Institute's Calls to Action Accountability: A 2021 Status Update on Reconciliation, 10 a.m.-12:30 pm. (1-3:30 p.m. EDT), Sept. 29
• 9th Annual Orange Shirt Day, Williams Lake Stampede Grounds, 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
• Walk for the Children in Penticton on September 30, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, hosted by Okanagan Nation Alliance
• Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society (442- Leon Avenue, Kelowna) is hosting two events:
  • National Day of Truth and Reconciliation Day - Thursday, Sept. 29, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. - E-mail KFS or call 250-300-3075 for information
  • Sisters in Spirit Vigil - Tuesday, Oct. 4 - 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. E-mail KFS or call 250-300-3075 for information

This week on the the podcast, host Tracy Mooney talks with Shari McKeown, Lucie Poisson and Natalie Daniels about Interior Health’s new Aboriginal Patient Care and Quality Consultant positions that provide culturally safe recourse for patient and client concerns..

Learn more:

• In Plain Sight Report and Recommendations
• Interior Health Patient Care Quality Office (contact us to share your feedback)
• Download our Patient Care Quality Office brochure for printing and sharing with others

This week on the podcast, host Tracy Mooney talks with Kristen Hanson and Jonathan Spence from IH’s Communicable Disease Department and Casey Neathway from First Nations Health Authority about how Nations, FNHA and IH have partnered during the Pandemic Response.

Learn more: 

• First Nations Health Authority
• Interior Health COVID-19 Information
• BC CDC Covid-19 Information

AD0200 Aboriginal Cultural Safety and Humility began with a conversation between colleagues and a whiteboard drawing two years ago, and was approved earlier this year. The Development Team was made up of representatives from Human Resources, Workplace Health and Safety, Aboriginal Health and Aboriginal Mental Wellness. Several team members met recently to discuss the importance of the policy and the development process.

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This week on the podcast, we present a special two-part edition for Louis Riel Day. In part 2, host Tracy Mooney talks with Dean Gladue, Director, Region 3 from Métis Nation BC about the Day and what it means to be Métis.

This week on the podcast, we present a special two-part edition for Louis Riel Day. In part 1, host Tracy Mooney talks with Debra Fisher, Director, Region 4 from Métis Nation BC about the Day and what it means to be Métis.

This week on the Interior Voices podcast, host Tracy Mooney talks with AJ Aspinall, Kim Dedora, and Carl Meadows about the IH Employee Voices Advisory Committee.

Episode Resources:

• IH’s Diversity and Inclusion page
• IH’s Inclusive Language Guide
• IH’s Diversity and Inclusion Plan
• EVAG Meet the Members
• IH’s 2020 Employee census report
• Contact EVAG or email the group at __IHEmployeeVoicesAdvisoryGroup in Outlook

This week on the Interior Voices podcast, host Tracy Mooney talks with Vanessa and Leslie, along with Elders Eric Mitchell and Chris Marchand about Planting the Seeds, an Indigenous-informed research workshop. The team--which also included Elder Roberta Price and former Knowledge Facilitator Christopher Macklin--created and led the workshop for researchers interested in working with Indigenous peoples.

Episode Resources:

• Promising Practice - Planting the Seeds: Insights for Researchers Interested in Working with Indigenous Peoples
• Evaluating “in a good way”: exploring approaches to integrating Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing into the Centers for Disease Control Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health
• The Four R's - Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity, Responsibility
• The First Nations Principles of OCAP
• Research is Ceremony
• Using Two-Eyed Seeing in Research With Indigenous People: An Integrative Review
• BC Support Unit

This week, host Vanessa Mitchell talks with Dr. Sean Wachtel, Senior Medical Director, Aboriginal Health. Vanessa asks him about his role with Interior Health and they cover important ground related to cultural safety and humility in health care.

Episode 1 Resources

• Vanessa and Dr. Wachtel discuss the importance of Territory Acknowledgements
• The X-Change Session 3 – Aboriginal Health: A Physicians Journey to Cultural Humility
• The Four Agreements of Courageous Conversations
• Racist Like Me — A Call to Self-Reflection and Action for White Physicians
  
  

This week, host Vanessa Mitchell talks with Tracy Mooney, Aboriginal Employment Advisor and Jody Wagner, Aboriginal Mental Wellness Practice Lead. Their discussion centers around Aboriginal Mental Wellness during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

• Nlaka'pamux Nation managers tour photos