Safe, collaborative, trusting relationships are a essential when it comes to working with women and families, where there is substance use. Some key educational offerings that support building safe relationships include:
- Motivational Interviewing;
- trauma and violence informed practice; and
- Indigenous Cultural Safety.
The following courses are available to help you grow your skills in these areas. Indigenous Cultural Safety is integrated throughout all our content.
SafeCare education includes trauma and violence-informed practice, substance use harm reduction, Indigenous Cultural Safety, and self-care components. The SafeCare curriculum focuses on principles of resilience, healing, and improved care outcomes. The goal of the learning is to create safer, more collaborative, more trusting relationships with patients, families and colleagues.
There are two different versions of SafeCare. These include a BC Children's & Women's version for all employees, leaders, and physicians, as well as a Perinatal Substance Use version for healthcare provider and leaders in the province who work with women who are pregnant or newly parenting and who use substances.
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative conversation style, that draws on a person's own motivation to change. All Health Authorities (HA) offer yearly seats at MI training. These offerings are coordinated through point persons at each HA.
You may also contact your regional perinatal substance working group to find out about Centre for Collaboration, Motivation and Innovation education opportunities. Finally, see the education resource list for other on-demand resources for MI.
The Elders Visioning Perinatal Substance Use Toolkit is a unique resource describing Indigenous Elders' teaching and perspectives on providing culturally safe health care and how to engage Elders in health care services in a good way.
