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“Nothing About Us Without Us” - Greater, Meaningful Involvement of People Who Use Illegal Drugs: A Public Health, Ethical, and Human Rights Imperative
Background document
This booklet summarizes the main issues addressed in the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network’s paper on greater involvement of people who use illegal dru…
Source : HIV Legal NetworkFormat: PDF
Published: 2005
Topics: Best practices and engagement toolkits

A Culturally Relevant Gender Based Analysis Framework
Toolkit
This resource blends an Indigenous, anti-oppressive, trauma informed approach to gender-based analysis. This considers colonization, the imposition o…
Source : Native Women's Association of CanadaFormat: PDF
Published: 2020
Topics: Trauma - and violence - informed approaches and gender-informed responses, Indigenous cultural safety

From Stilettos to Moccasins
Video
A community-based research project with Indigenous women healing from substance use and problems with the law, created in 2009. This project led to t…
Source : Thunderbird Partnership Foundation, Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), University of SaskatchewanFormat: Audiovisual
Published: 2009
Topics: Indigenous cultural safety
Living Health Equity Values In Public Health Organizations: A Review And Dialogue-Based Tool
Tool
This document summarizes literature and practice evidence about identifying and applying organizational values to support health equity action by pub…
Source : National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH)Format: PDF
Published: 2018
Topics: Planning for equity, Equity centered approaches

Improving access to mental health and addictions services and supports for older Indigenous adults, using a cultural safety and equity lens
Report
Older Indigenous adults residing in off-reserve urban population centres face unique and complex challenges and barriers to accessing mental health a…
Source : National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)Format: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Determinants of health, Indigenous cultural safety

The Unforgotten Toolkit: An education guide to learn about, reflect on and dismantle anti-indigenous racism in health care
Tool
The Unforgotten is a film exploring the health and wellness experiences of Inuit, Métis and First Nations peoples across the five stages of life: b…
Source : Canadian Medical Association, Build FilmsFormat: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Indigenous cultural safety, Anti-racism

Canadian Drug Policy and a Fentanyl Sales Program
Webinar
Aimed at physicians and Nurse Practitioners (NPs), this presentation was designed to present the prescribed fentanyl distribution protocol implemente…
Source : Communauté de pratique médicale en dépendance (CPMD)Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2023
Topics: Safe supply

Crossroads to Compassion
Tool
Crossroads to Compassion is an interactive simulation story based on the experiences of young people who use opioids. It was created in partnership b…
Source : Government of Alberta, Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2023
Topics: Stories and perspectives

From ‘Patients’ To ‘Co-Creators’ of Interventions
Report
Integrated and person centred-care means putting people and communities, not diseases, at the centre of health systems and empowering people to take …
Source : Correlation - European Harm Reduction NetworkFormat: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Best practices and engagement toolkits

Ethical and Legal Issues in Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration Therapy
Academic article
Psychedelic-assisted therapy may represent an upcoming paradigm shift in the treatment of mental health problems as recent clinical trials have demon…
Source : Harm Reduction JournalFormat: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Substance-specific resources