Module 4: Related Practice Issues: Trauma-Informed Care, Supporting Strength – based and Resiliency Approaches, Primordial Prevention
Self-assessment Activity: Understanding Primordial Prevention within an Indigenous Context
This activity will help with understanding primordial prevention as it relates to the clinical setting in which you work. It will also help you identify ways of strengthening and promoting primordial prevention among your Indigenous women patients.
Before you begin this activity, make sure you have watched, “Healing the Hurt”, a two-part video series documenting Indigenous mothers’ experiences receiving health care in Hamilton, ON, Canada. Here is an opening statement about the videos:
In sharing these traumatic memories, they hope that health care professionals will understand the consequences of anti-Indigenous racism, and commit to providing trauma-informed, culturally-safe care.