Indigenous Health, Northern Health and the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH) present this short animated video on the topic of Compassion-Informed Care for health care professionals. This resource is intended to aid health care practitioners in their ongoing journey to create respectful relationships with the people whom they serve, specifically Indigenous communities.
The six-minute video is narrated by Dr. Evan Adams who is from the Tla’amin First Nation in BC. Dr. Adams is Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Public Health, Indigenous Services Canada. Dr. Adams works to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure that the health system is safe and accessible for Indigenous people across the country.
Produced by Dr. Margo Greenwood and written by Julia Petrasek MacDonald and Shelby Petersen with animation by Joanne Gervais, this video reviews key terms such as developmental and historical trauma.