I.C.E.

Towards Inclusive, Culturally safe & Equitable rehabilitation services

I.C.E. – TUNGNGASUTTITAQ (2024-ongoing)

The I.C.E.-T initiative aims to play a role in the cultural safety efforts being made by the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services (NRBHSS) and its partners. It will offer Nunavimmiut the necessary tools that could enable them to negotiate, on a more equal grounding, decisions about the healthcare services and how to navigate physical rehabilitation services in Montreal.

More specifically, the project will produce:

  • Educational audiovisual capsules (videos in Inuktitut, English, French),
  • Accompanying infographics

to better prepare Nunavimmiut for travel South by presenting and clarifying the nature of rehabilitation services (e.g., physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, audiology services, technical adaptations, & more).

For more information about the initiative, please contact: Lesley Lambo, Project Manager or Chantal Robillard, Principal Investigator:

Email: ICEinitiatives.nunavik@gmail.com
Phone: 514-488-5552, ext. 51128

COLLABORATIONS

  • Dominique Gélinas-Bronsard, Clinical Coordinator, SAT Program, CIUSSS West-Central
  • Lesley Lambo, Research Associate, Concordia University; Project Manager, CIUSSS West-Central
  • Lauriane Ouellet, Senior Advisor for Clinical Supervision, Inuulitsivik Health Centre
  • Frédérique Poncet, Professor, McGill University; CRIR Researcher; Resident researcher, CIUSSS West-Central
  • Chantal Robillard, Professor, UQAM & Université de Montréal; CRIR Researcher; Clinical Research Coordinator, CIUSSS West-Central
  • Jesse Simms, Clinical Coordonator, Northern Program, CIUSSS West-Central
  • And other collaborators from Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services, Ullivik, CIUSSS South-Central & West-Central, McGill University & Nunavimmiut consultant

FUNDING

I.C.E. (2023-ongoing)

The I.C.E. initiative aims to provide Inuit and Eeyouch[1] access to a more inclusive, respectful, and culturally safe environment within the specialized physical rehabilitation trajectories. It wishes to acknowledge trauma rooted in historical colonization as well as ongoing colonization and racism that are still impacting Eeyouch and Inuit’s health and wellbeing. The initiative therefore seeks cultural humility in the provision of physical rehabilitation services (e.g., physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, audiology services, technical adaptations, & more).

The collaboration as equal partners of the Inuit and Eeyou rights’ holders, clinicians and managers from the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services (NRBHSS), the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal (CCOMTL), CIUSSS South-Central Montreal (CCSMTL), Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation (CRIR) researchers, and in consultation with the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay (CBHSSJB) aim to ensure that an action   plan to improve the cultural safety of the continuum of physical rehabilitation care enhances the health of Eeyouch and Inuit.

To summarize, the I.C.E. initiative aims to:

  1. Establish Indigenous-led partnerships with organizations in the Eeyou Istchee, Nunavik and the partnering CIUSS;
  2. Conduct an assessment of facilitators and gaps that have been identified, and examine the most pressing issues in the establishment of a culturally safe environment in physical rehabilitation programs;
  3. Identify a list of priority actions to address issues and gaps to assure Inuit and Eeyou receiving physical rehabilitation services feel culturally safe.

Drawing from a Two-Eyed Seeing approach and culturally safety framework, the initiative wishes to be respectful of both Indigenous and non-indigenous ways of knowing in the co-construction of new knowledge that can help best address each Nation’s specific concerns.

The project has established a Governance Committee involving Inuit and Eeyou representatives to guide the further co-construction of the research methodology and action plan:

  1. In-person story telling with Inuit (2groups) & Eeyou (2groups) rights holders on pathways leading to feeling culturally safe;
  2. 60-90 min. online focus group discussions on healthcare practices, organizational structures and healthcare environment impacting on the delivery of culturally safe physical rehabilitation services:
    • Inuit key rights’ holders (n=6-10);
    • Inuit & CCOMTL/CCSMTL physical rehabilitation service providers (n=6-10);
    • Inuit & CCOMTL/CCSMTL decision makers/managers (n=6-10);
    • Consultations with Eeyou physical rehabilitation service providers.
  1. Validation & interpretation by the Governance Committee:
    • Emerging from this co-construction of knowledge, a half day workshop will be held with partners to identify strategies that will help move towards more inclusive, culturally safe and equitable physical rehabilitation services

For more information about the initiative, please contact: Lesley Lambo, project manager or Chantal Robillard, principal investigator:

Email: ICEinitiatives.nunavik@gmail.com
Phone: 514-488-5552, ext. 51128

COLLABORATIONS

  • Dominique Gélinas-Bronsard, Clinical Coordinator, SAT Program, CIUSSS West Central
  • Lesley Lambo, Research Associate, Concordia University; Project Manager, CIUSSS West Central
  • Lauriane Ouellet, Senior Advisor for Clinical Supervision, Inuulitsivik Health Centre
  • Frédérique Poncet, Professor, McGill University; CRIR Researcher; Resident researcher, CIUSSS West-Central
  • Chantal Robillard, Professor, UQAM & Université de Montréal; CRIR Researcher; Clinical Research Coordinator, CIUSSS West-Central
  • Jesse Simms, Clinical Coordonator, Northern Program, CIUSSS West-Central
  • And other collaborators from Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services, CIUSSS South-Central & West-Central, McGill University & Nunavimmiut consultant

FUNDING

[1] The Cree Health Board is collaborating on the project as consultants with the aim to improve rehabilitation services for its people.

Credit infographics and images to Freepik.