In 2019, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre published the report entitled “RED WOMEN RISING: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside” and written by Carol Muree Martin (Nisga’a – Gitanyow) and Harsha Walia. This report is the first comprehensive project with Indigenous women survivors in the DTES figuring at the very centre of community research, rather than as a secondary statistic.
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Immediate services needed in the DTES
Recommendation 18: An Indigenous Health and Wellness Centre in the DTES and Indigenous-run health programs that use Indigenous methods to address physical, mental, sexual, emotional, and spiritual harms. Also fund more mobile healthcare vans and community-based clinics, street nurses, and healthcare providers in the DTES.-
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Recommendation 21: Rapid easy access to Indigenous women’s detox-on-demand where there is no time limit; Indigenous-run treatment centres; indoor overdose prevention sites and consumption sites for Indigenous women only; access to safer drug supply; and full spectrum of substitution treatment options.-
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Immediate services needed in the DTES
Recommendation 22: Guarantee a 24/7 Indigenous mental health and addictions counselling program that is low-barrier, drop-in based, available on demand, and includes overnight street-based counselling in the DTES. Also ensure long-term mental health and addiction services, ranging from prevention, early intervention, treatment, crisis care, home visits, and aftercare.-
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Recommendation 25: Provide a free medical accompaniment program where women are guaranteed rides and an accompaniment advocate for all medical appointments.-
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Recommendations for Indigenous women’s wellness in the DTES
Culturally safe healthcare
Recommendation 185: End the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women, and hold health professionals criminally responsible for acts of coerced sterilization.-
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Culturally safe healthcare
Recommendation 186: End the medical pathologizing and diagnosing of gender identity. Train healthcare professionals to provide gender-affirming care that is safe for and respectful of trans women and two-spirit people.-
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Culturally safe healthcare
Recommendation 187: Reframe mental health and addictions services so they mirror Indigenous women’s social and economic realities and aspirations towards healing.-
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Recommendation 188: All healthcare workers must believe Indigenous women and treat them as credible experts about their own health.-
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Culturally safe healthcare
Recommendation 189: All medical and nursing schools in Canada must require courses dealing with Indigenous health issues, including the legacy of colonialism and its impacts, as well as skills-based training in anti-racism, human rights, and trauma-informed care.-
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Culturally safe healthcare
Recommendation 190: More doctors and nurses, and especially more Indigenous healthcare professionals.-
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