Item - 2025.HL24.1

The Board of Health:

1. Directed that Confidential Attachment 1 remain confidential in its entirety, as it pertains to the education or training of the Directors.

The Board of Health recessed its public meeting to meet in closed session to consider the item as it pertains to the education or training of the Members.

Indigenous Cultural Safety training - provided by Dr. John Waaseyaabin Hupfield (Anishinaabe, Wasauksing First Nation) - provides an overview of colonization and power dynamics of community building today and offers a model for rebuilding relationships with Indigenous communities and urban organizations. The training works to foster an understanding of how colonization is an ongoing process that continues to undermine Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. As a direct outcome of colonization, the relationship between Indigenous peoples and municipal institutions remain fraught with tension and mistrust. The training presents models used in academia and research that work to re-balance power dynamics and honour the sovereignty and self-determination of Indigenous peoples. 

Learning Objectives:

- Understand colonization as an ongoing process - not one rooted in the past

- Demonstrate how relationships remain strained at the governance, community, and individual levels

- Learn from Indigenous Research Methodologies, which can re-frame working relationships with Indigenous communities today 

The Board of Health will meet in closed session on this item in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006 which permits the closing of a meeting for the education or training of the Directors.