Promising Practices

The Promising Practices Project is dually funded through the Public Health Agency of Canada and Indigenous Services Canada (First Nations Inuit Health Branch).

The primary focus of the Promising Practices Project is to address the issues and needs presented to CAAN by participating members (Indigenous people, communities, service providers, IPHA/IPHC’s) through formal dialogue sessions that occur throughout the year. Indigenous feedback is responded to in the form of resources and materials that identify wise practices with regards to accessibility, inclusion, cultural relevance, and appropriateness. These resources are developed in collaboration with CAAN Research, providing evidence-based and supported approaches to service delivery.

Resources include the development of prevention and education materials and contain a training component that presents implementation capacity building. Promising Practices also includes partnerships across the service provider sphere, engaging Indigenous people and community knowledge that can then guide service delivery work.

Knowledge Bundles (formally referred to as Toolkits) are available resources on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, STBBI’s, and Harm Reduction. These bundles include research-based information sheets, visual aids in the format of films, facilitation guides and workbooks.

Information Sheets provide action items and recommendations that service providers can implement immediately. They have been created on the following:

• Youth: Beyond Risk – National Indigenous Youth Council on Sexual Health and HIV & AIDS
  
• Creating Safer Spaces for Indigenous Women Living with HIV
  
• Indigenous Leadership in HIV/AIDS – Implementing the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV and/or AIDS (GIPA)
  
• Lessons Learned Responding to HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis C in Indigenous Communities Globally
  
• Strength-Based Approaches in the HIV, HCV, & Overdose Response
• Approches basées sur les points forts dans la réponse au VIH, au VHC et aux surdoses
  
• So you want to do community-based research?: An introduction to CBR
• Vous voulez faire de la recherche communautaire? Une introduction à la CBR