REGISTER
Date and Time: Thursday, March 13th from 2:00 – 3:30pm ET
This webinar will explore barriers to accessing abortion care services faced by Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Historical and ongoing harms against Indigenous women in healthcare, such as forced sterilization, requires nurses to understand how to provide trauma- and violence-informed, culturally safe, abortion care. Participants will understand how the social and structural determinants of health impact Indigenous people’s access to abortion care. Strategies and resources that support nursing care in this area will be shared.
This live presentation will be supported by simultaneous translation and attendees will have the option to listen in French or English.
Presenters: Knowledge Keeper Sk^lanat and Jess Danforth
Knowledge Keeper Sk^lanat (he/him), who is the Supervisor for the Traditional Medicines Program at the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, will be opening the webinar with a song and prayer.
Jess Danforth (she/her) is the founder of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, a front-line grassroots community-based organization that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice across Turtle Island, with a circle of intergenerational relatives. She has extensive experience working with abortion access organizations such as Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, and Women on Web. Jess has done some training in midwifery to directly support people seeking culturally safe access to termination care throughout Turtle Island, especially in the context of harm reduction outreach that meets people where they are at.
