You need to prepare a cultural safety strategy for a specific organisation and respond to a number of points, as below.
Your strategy must include the following headings and address the points within each one.Â
Cultural safety in the workplace
a) In fifty (50) words, discuss how cultural factors may impact health service delivery to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients.Â
b) Specify three (3) key aspects of cultural safety and explain each one in fifty (50) words. (
c) Using your own workplace or one that you have experienced, discuss in fifty (50) words the extent to which cultural safety is integrated into the workplace.
d) Describe in one hundred (100) words how your strategy promotes Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety in the context of this workplace.
Cultural safety in your own work
a) Indicate one (1) communication technique and one (1) work practice that show respect for the cultural differences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, and explain each in 50 words.
b) Explain in one hundred (100) words, how you would engage with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander interpreters and colleagues as cultural brokers, according to situation needs.
Strategies for improved cultural safety
a) Describe in one hundred (100) words how you would support the development of effective partnerships between staff, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their communities.
b) Identify (3) resources and illustrate how you would utilise these resources to promote partnerships, describe in fifty (50) words each
c) Devise and document three (3) ways to support the delivery of services and programs that are culturally safe and encourage increased participation, and describe in fifty (50) words each.
d) Integrate three (3) strategies that encourage self-determination and community control in services and programs, describe each in fifty (50) words.
Part 2
Part 2 should become a fourth section in your initial strategy and be submitted as one document.Â
Once you have designed your strategy, you will need to obtain feedback on it from an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person or group. This may include people you know, colleagues or organisations that you have some involvement with.
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If you donât have access to an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person then you will need to gain feedback by looking at, and aligning your strategy with other published and available strategies (in these cases the cultural safety strategies are a nationally accredited or accepted document that was formulated by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people or Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander input).
In assessing/evaluating your strategy, you will need to address the following points:
: Evaluation of cultural safety strategies
a) Indicate one (1) outcome against which cultural safety strategies can be measured, and describe in 50 wordsÂ
b) Describe in fifty (50) words, how you involved Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people in the evaluation of your strategy.Â
c) Describe in fifty (50) words, how you evaluated programs and services against desired outcomesÂ
d) Describe in fifty (50) words, how you revised your strategies based on evaluation with appropriate engagement of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peopleÂ
e) In fifty (50) words discuss one (1) piece of legislation which ensures Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safetyÂ