Health Advocate Role Resources
Please note this selection is not meant to be comprehensive or complete, and inclusion is not necessarily an endorsement by the CPSO.
Courses, eLearning Modules
- Culture, Ethics, & Safety Training Course, Queen’s University
Online program providing new understandings to being a positive contributor to the health and wellbeing of communities as a healthcare professional and advocate. - San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Program
Core and advanced online training focus on uprooting anti-Indigenous racism and promoting cultural safety for Indigenous people
Other Online Resources
- Advocacy for change: An important role to undertake with care, Canadian Medical Protective Association
Outlines medico-legal considerations when engaging in healthcare advocacy. - Andermann A; CLEAR Collaboration. Taking action on the social determinants of health in clinical practice: a framework for health professionals. CMAJ. 2016;188(17-18):E474-E483. doi:10.1503/cmaj.160177
- Best Advice Guide: Social Determinants of Health, College of Family Physicians of Canada
Provides family physicians with concrete steps on how to consider and improve patients’ social determinants of health, including suggested clinical, community, and population-level interventions. - Buchman S, Woollard R, Meili R, Goel R. Practising social accountability: From theory to action. Can Fam Physician. 2016;62(1):15-18. www.cfp.ca/content/62/1/15
- Indigenous Health Primer, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Provides key approaches, ideas and background knowledge for health care providers, learners and educators in caring for Indigenous Peoples. - My guide to caring for trans and gender-diverse clients, Rainbow Health Ontario
Online interactive tool based on the Guidelines for Gender-Affirming Primary Care with Trans and Non-binary Patients - Poverty: A Clinical Tool for Primary Care Providers, Centre for Effective Practice
Directs providers to use key questions to assess their patients’ living situations and current benefits. Includes links to key government and community resources to support positive interventions. - Trauma-and Violence-Informed Care (TVIC) Tool, EQUIP Health Care
A key dimension of equity-oriented health care, harm reduction, cultural safety & humility, and TVIC are interrelated concepts that promote equity. Tool provides clear, practical steps to build TVIC into practice and organizations.
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