Tools for Organizations to Reduce Stigma and Improve Health Outcomes
This virtual capacity building event showcased two exciting projects designed to help community-based organizations deepen their impact, strengthen culturally safer practices, and support stigma-free services for people with lived or living experience(s) of HIV, viral hepatitis, mental health challenges, and/or substance use.
Presented by: Edi Young, Jennifer Hoy and Leanne Zubowski
Part 1: PAN’s Organizational Stigma Assessment Cycle (OSAC) Project
Stigma continues to be a major barrier in accessing care and support. The OSAC Project responds with an evidence-based, organizational-level approach to reducing stigma by supporting organizations to learn where stigma and discrimination may inadvertently occur in their programs or services. Using the learning from the initial analyses, capacity building will help organizations deepen their learning and implement changes. Organizations may work through the process once or multiple times, depending on their organizational capacity.
To learn more about PAN’s Organizational Stigma Assessment Tool Click here.
Part 2: Making it Work Community Guidebook
This presentation introduced the Making It Work Guidebook that provides recommendations for how organizations and service providers can work together to better address the gaps that exist in systems of care. It was developed based on the learnings from the Making it Work community-based research study that applied an Indigenized lens to program theory. The study explored why, when, how, and for whom community-based services work, with a focus on case management and community development programs rooted in Indigenous service delivery models and harm reduction.
To learn more about the Making it Work Project Click here.
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We greatly appreciate the vision of our government funders and their ongoing commitment to supporting the work of PAN. In particular we gratefully acknowledge the Public Health Agency of Canada – HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Public Health Agency of Canada.