AMHW Program Commitments and Philosophy 🌿

Program Commitments🌿

Honouring Relationships and Community

We cultivate learners’ abilities to nurture respectful, reciprocal, and accountable relationships. Learners understand that care, trust, and connection form the foundation of effective practice and support community well-being.

Learning Through Critical Awareness

We prepare learners to engage in critical reflection on power, privilege, and systemic inequities. This awareness guides ethical, trauma-informed practice that centres equity, healing, and recovery.

Rooting Practice in Anti-Racism and Anti-Colonial Knowledge

Learners critically examine the intersections of race, colonialism, and systemic oppression. They honour Indigenous ways of knowing, histories, and resilience, practicing in ways that support cultural humility, relational accountability, and community healing.

Engaging in Reflective Action

Learners are encouraged to apply knowledge with self-awareness and integrity. Through reflection, analysis, and guided practice, they co-create solutions that are ethical, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed, supporting empowerment and the right to self-determination.

Promoting Social Justice and Equity

Learners work alongside marginalized and underserved community members to dismantle barriers, advocate for human rights, and facilitate meaningful change. Practice is grounded in the principles of hope, healing, and recovery, ensuring that community members’ voices guide decision-making.

Embodying Ethical and Trauma-Informed Practice

Learners integrate trauma-informed principles into all learning and practice, understanding that safety, wellness, and care look different for every person. They foster emotionally safe, inclusive spaces where resilience, empowerment, and holistic well-being are nurtured.

Interdisciplinary and Relational Collaboration

We prepare learners to work respectfully within diverse teams, integrating multiple perspectives and knowledge systems. Learners practice relational accountability, applying collaborative approaches to support community-centred and holistic care.

The AMHW Program is committed to excellence through relational teaching, reflective learning, and partnership with learners, faculty, and community members. Our mission is to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to provide trauma-informed, socially just, and community-centred care that honours hope, healing, and recovery in an ever-changing society.