Step 1: Truth & Self Reflection
Theme Actions
- 2 day Wabishki Bizhiko Skaanj in person training (MyRoad and DAC)
- Blanket exercise (CHRIM)
- Adopt the RFHS’s Policy on the Disruption of all Forms of Racism
- Develop and review the policy for reporting racism within DREAM/CHRIM
- Embed TRC calls to action #18-24 in our research
- AHA best practices for racial and ethnic disparities
- Questions and strategies are informed by conceptual frameworks
- Rationale and classification for inclusion of racialized populations
- Diverse and inclusive study teams
- Discuss results within conceptual framework Avoid genetic explanations for disparities **TRC call to action #18
- **Race vs racism as a variable
- Annual Reports
Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism initiatives
- Read the RFHS’s Policy on the Disruption of all Forms of Racism
- Understands the rationale for and goals of the Disruption of All Forms of Racism Policy
- Disruption of all forms of racism policy: Learning module
- MICST - san'yas training OCAP training
- Explore the history of anti-Black racism and a Black presence in Canada
- Annual critical reflection on your progress on addressing power, bias and interrupting racism
- Implicit bias website/test
- CMAJ's new guidance on the reporting of race and ethnicity in research articles
- CIHIs guidance on the reporting of race and ethnicity in research articles
Step 2: Critical Consciousness & Anti-racism
Theme Actions
- Anti-racism training (A.R.T. program)
- Dialogue/practice interrupting racism
- Actively recruit partners to engage in new research
- Race as a part of the theoretical framework. If you are not asking these questions it is bad science.
- Annual audit
Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism initiatives
- Review, share and use the policy for reporting racism Engage with the BRAID network at U of M
- Attend ceremony - connect with community
- Read some or all of these books:
- Me & White Supremacy - Layla Saad
- Pedagogy of the oppressed - Paulo Freire
- Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black White Benevolence: Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions, eds. Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean, and Verna St.Denis.
- My grandmother’s hands: Racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies - Resmaa Menakem
- Abolition. Feminism. Now - AY Davis, G Dent, E. R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie
- Between the world and me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
- How to be an antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
Step 3: Advocacy & Partnership / Changing Policies
Theme Actions
- Co-design how to do this as a team
- Co-develop an Anti-racism Research Institute or Theme
- Restorative and transformative justice
- Annual audit
On-Going Checklist
- Hiring committees consist of people who are Black, Indigenous and members of racialized minority communities
- Anti-racism lens for catalyst grants
- Inclusivity for invited speakers to include Black, Indigenous and members of racialized minority communities Publications with Black, Indigenous and members of racialized minority communities as partners
- Highlight the good work we are doing (KT)
- Follow up with participants/communities post research (ask how the engagement was, did they feel respected, heard and understood)