Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism Multi-Year Action Plan

I Belong Multi-Year Action Plan

As an organization that serves the diverse communities of Durham Region with more than 8,700 staff, physicians, and volunteers, we have a social responsibility to foster a culture where everyone feels they can work and receive care safely, openly, and honestly.  

In the summer of 2020, we made a commitment to accelerate our inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, and anti-racism (IDEAA) efforts in order to promote an equitable environment for all. 

Since then, we’ve made great strides in this work – putting initiatives in place to address system inequities identified by our teams and surveying our communities to help inform our Board of Trustees. 

This IDEAA Multi-Year Action Plan builds on our comprehensive engagement and formalizes our commitment to IDEAA across the organization. 

Over the next three years, we will set the foundation to embed an IDEAA lens in everything we do. From the moment we begin caring for a patient, resident, or client, or the first day someone joins our team, we want each person to be able to say, “I belong at Lakeridge Health.” 

Learn more by reading I Belong, Lakeridge Health’s IDEAA Multi-Year Action Plan, or by viewing our video.

You can also connect with us by emailing inclusion@lh.ca.

Quick Links to Resources

 Digital Resources
 Learning Toolkits/Interactive Resources
 
  • Human Library: Everyone has a Story to Share
    • A Human Library is a way for people to reach out and connect with individuals in their community that they might not normally engage with. Visitors to a library have an opportunity during a planned event to borrow Human Books and to engage in conversation with the books. Developed by the Ontario Library Association.
  • Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
    • We acknowledge and support the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action to advance Canada through the process of reconciliation with First Nation, Inuit, Métis and urban Indigenous Peoples. The Call to Action “Health” section envisions improving health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in Canada. May the partnerships with First Nation, Inuit, Métis and urban Indigenous communities help us work together to provide the best health system for all.
  •  Ontario Health’s (Cancer Care Ontario) Indigenous Relationship and Cultural Safety Course
    • A series of free online courses to help individuals working with First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. The courses support a call to action made in the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report. These 13 courses provide knowledge about the history and culture of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people and communities.
  •  University of Alberta's Indigenous Canada Course
    • A free 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. This course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective, highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.
 Readings

 Racism in Ontario and Canada

Racism and Health

Resources specifically for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous People and People of Colour) 

For White Allies

·       Ontario Health’s (Cancer Care Ontario) Indigenous Relationship and Cultural Safety Course

o   A series of free online courses to help individuals working with First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. The courses support a call to action made in the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report. These 13 courses provide knowledge about the history and culture of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people and communities.