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Anti-Black Racism & Black Health Competencies

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About the project

Anti-Black Racism & Black Health Competencies addresses the exclusion of Black health and anti-Black racism in health professional education curricula through the creation of a core competencies framework.

 

The Competencies Framework is a multi-phase project to develop competency statements and learning objectives on anti-Black racism and Black Health. Through an iterative and stakeholder-informed process, the framework has yielded competency themes and learning objectives which will inform competency and curricular development nationally.

A competency framework on anti-Black racism and Black health will contribute to improving the health of Black people in Canada by: 

  • Supporting the development of an anti-racist health care workforce;

  • Encouraging health care service delivery centred around anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice;

  • Catalyzing a movement within faculties of medicine to teach this content;

  • Stimulate students to learn about Black health in a Canadian context to improve their practice in serving their patients/clients; and

  • Setting a Canadian standard with the potential to influence the standards across medical professions, public health, and allied health care.

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The Black Health Education Collaborative’s anti-Black racism and Black health Competencies Framework can be tailored for practitioners, learners, and educators across different disciplines. 

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The Black Health Education Collaborative acknowledges with gratitude the Indigenous and Afri-Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island who continue to thrive and resist colonial violence while striving for self-determination and decolonial futures. We live, work and play in various territories including the lands of the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississauga’s of the Credit River; Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples, the Anishinaabe, and on the homeland of the Red River Métis Nation; Kanien:keha’ka and Mi’kmaq.

 

We remember our ancestors, forcibly displanted African peoples, trafficked into Turtle Island as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the histories and legacies of colonialism and neo-colonialism which continue to impact African Peoples and the descendants of the Black diaspora across the world.

 

We recognize that racial colonial violence harms Black, Afri-Indigenous and Indigenous Peoples through both common and distinct logics and actions. We recognize our responsibility and obligations as African Peoples to be good guests on these lands. We offer thanks to our elders and communities from whom we learn. May your wisdom inform our actions towards a more just future.

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