The Women and Gender Diverse People’s Health Section is thrilled to launch the Welcoming Spaces Toolkit!
The Welcoming Spaces Toolkit provides practical, evidence-informed, and easy-to-use tools to support staff in creating safer and inclusive spaces. The Toolkit strives to help staff embed accessibility, diversity, equity, inclusion, trauma-informed practices, and cultural safety in health care settings. It is intended for all staff across the health system, including frontline providers, leadership teams, and learners. People can use the toolkit at their own pace, and revisit individual resources that may be helpful to their work.
The Welcoming Spaces Toolkit contains resources to enhance health settings to be more welcoming and inclusive, including spaces assessment tools, inclusive language guide, infographics demonstrating welcoming space concepts, and tip sheets. The toolkit acts as a primer to lay a foundation for these concepts, and it’s built to be accessible. It’s a living document and will be updated annually to be responsive to feedback and what is happening in the communities we serve.
The Toolkit is an initiative arising from commitments made in Awareness to Action: A Health Strategy for Women and Islanders Who Are Gender Diverse and also aligns with priorities of Health PEI’s People Strategy, the Public Service Commission’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, and the Anti-Racism Action Plan for Prince Edward Island.
For more information on the Welcoming Spaces Toolkit, to provide feedback, or to book a training session on the Toolkit concepts and resources, please contact the Health Diversity and Inclusion Specialist at healthhub@gov.pe.ca
