People who use substances often experience stigma and discrimination when accessing health and social services. This failing of the system can lead to folks not accessing and/or disconnecting from care and support.
Concept mapping is a process that supports community people where they are at to brainstorm, sort, and rate important concepts for health care models. A recent study partnering people with lived experience and researchers at the University of Victoria applied the concept of culturally safe care to develop a model of care from the perspective of people who use substances.
This webinar was presented by Bernie Pauly of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and Fred Cameron of SOLID.
Further Learning
- SOLID
- Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research
- Defining culturally safe primary care for people who use substances: a participatory concept mapping study
- Applicability of a national strategy for patient-oriented research to people who use(d) substances: a Canadian experience
- A concept mapping study of service user design of safer supply as an alternative to the illicit drug market
- Cultural Safety and Hospitals
- The Collaborative Community Laboratory on Substance Use and Harm Reduction (Co/Lab)
- UBC Health’s Commitment to Patient and Community Engagement in Research
- Safer Supply Practice Brief, Postcard and Checklist
- “If it wasn’t for them, I don’t think I would be here”: experiences of the first year of a safer supply program during the dual public health emergencies of COVID-19 and the drug toxicity crisis
This information will support the work of:
• People with lived and living experience providing peer services
• People providing frontline health navigation or support services
• People in program development
• People in policy development
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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.