EIDA-R

March 28 2024

University of Windsor Fundamentals of Race & Anti-Racism Course for WEOHT Partners

The Windsor-Essex Ontario Health Team aims to achieve a diverse, equitable and inclusive (EDI) empowered environment to address health equity in Windsor-Essex. Through funding provided by Ontario Health, the WEOHT was pleased to offer 90 seats to their partner organizations for the Univeristy of Windsor Fundamentals of Race & Anti-Racism course.

This generalist course will focus on issues related to race and its origins, anti-Black Racism, and the construct of whiteness. Through case studies and the sharing of experiences, participants explore their own relationships to power, privilege, oppression to enhance their awareness within their personal and professional interactions.

Learning outcomes include:

Enhanced vocabulary around issues of race, racism, ethnicity, and equity.
Increased knowledge about systemic and interpersonal racism.
Developing understanding of how political, economic and social-cultural practice shape identity, power, privilege and oppression.
Demonstrated capacity for critical self-reflection and increased awareness of unconscious bias, prejudice, and microaggressions.
Identification of promising strategies to comprehensively address anti-Black racism within our society and the workplace.

For more information on the course, visit the University of Windsor here.

March 8 2024

Equity, Inclusion, Diversity & Anti-Black Racism (EIDA-R) Free Resources

The Windsor-Essex Ontario Health Team is working collectively to remove barriers to health care in Windsor-Essex. Below are free resources available for all WEOHT partner organizations:

Addressing Anti-Black Racism – introduction to Anti-Black Racism eLearning Module is an informative and engaging module that is designed to support health service providers and their learners, staff, and physicians in their Anti-Black Racism learning journey – Anti-Black Racism e-Module Training

Introduction to Gender Diversity – this course is intended to offer basic information for staff working directly or indirectly with gender diverse clients within health care, mental health, and social work services – Introduction to Gender Diversity

Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health – The Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Project (IRMHP) offers online training, tools and resources to settlement, social and health service professionals working with immigrants and refugees – Immigrant & Refugee Mental Health

Indigenous Relationship & Cultural Awareness Courses – a series of 13 online courses to help individuals working with First Nations, Inuit, Métis and urban Indigenous people. The courses support a call to action made in the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report– Cancer Care Ontario

French Language Active Offer – online training on the active offer of French language health care services. This training was developed by the Réseau du mieux-être francophone du Nord de l’Ontario (Réseau) – Active Offer

French Language Active Offer – Entite 3 Active Offer

French Language Cultural Sensitivity Training – 6-hour learning program includes an introduction and three modules. Each module will contain written and interactive material such as case studies, quizzes, videos, reflection boxes and evaluations – French Language Sensitivity

January 20 2024

WEOHT Launches Equity, Inclusion, Diversity and Anti-Racism Survey for Partnership Council

The COVID-19 pandemic, combined with rising incidents of social injustice, have brought into sharper focus health inequities in BIPOC “black, indigenous, and other people of colour” and other vulnerable communities. In order for systems and structures to respond to these health inequities, we must have a better understanding of how the Windsor-Essex OHT partners are addressing health equity issues not only in terms of models of care and accessibility but as employers and good community stewards.

Within Windsor-Essex, Health, Social and Community Services have identified that certain populations have been experiencing disparities in access, care, and support to their needs as patients and providers. The Windsor Essex Ontario Health Team has a dedicated Equity, Inclusion, Diversity and Anti-Racism (EIDA-R) working group that was formed to focus on and support EIDA-R work within the WEOHT partners. As part this working group’s charter, the WEOHT Steering Committee, along with the EIDA-R working group are thrilled to announce the launch of a EIDA-R Environmental Scan. This environmental scan is the first step in beginning the work of assessing disparities across the WEOHT.

It is important to note that this EIDA-R Environmental scan supports three Ontario Health Objectives. They are as follows:

Advance Health Equity: working with Ontario’s Health Equity, Inclusion, Diversity and Anti-Racism Framework (with a focus on addressing anti-Indigenous and Anti-Black Racism) to reduce health inequity and improve outcomes for patients, families and providers.
Enhance Patient Experiences: A focus on building positive and collaborative relationships with patients and caregivers, healthcare professionals, and system partners (e.g. diverse communities such as Indigenous, Francophone, and Black communities).
Improve Provider Experience: Collect, report and use Equity data to report and evaluate to drive improvement, address racism, build trust, and reduce disparities while contributing to populations’ health

While the environmental scan is just the first objective, this scan will provide the broader WEOHT membership a baseline on where each organization is at in their EIDA-R journey. We recognize each organization is at a different stage of development as it relates to EIDA-R and this survey will simply capture the variety of stages amongst our WEOHT. This project will not advise on EIDA-R practices, policies or procedures.

The survey link has been delivered to WEOHT Partnership Council representatives. Following the survey and one on one meetings, a report will be produced and shared with the WEOHT Steering Committee, WEOHT EIDA-R Working Group and the WEOHT Patient, Family & Caregiver- Partnership Council, with the key findings being posted to the WEOHT website.