This guide assists you in researching topics related to the many-faceted aspects of reproductive health, contraceptives, and family planning, as well as resources on sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI). Here you will find books, ebooks
Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, transgender, and gender-diverse people have constitutional, reproductive, and human rights that must not be violated. Their free, prior, and informed consent must be respected, upheld, and defended.
Guide created by UBC offering a wide variety of resources. If we don't have something you are looking for we can request it through inter-library loan.
In response to the forced or coerced sterilization of Indigenous women, advocates, experts, and leaders have since called for systemic, sweeping changes to the health care system.
Their recommendations include making changes to accountability standards and to legislation and policy; providing education and training on cultural safety, informed consent, and anti-racism to health care providers; and offering Indigenous-specific services and supports, including education on patient rights and responsibilities and informed consent.
The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.
Our goal is to empower First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women, girls, and gender-diverse people with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health.
We also conduct community-based research to better advocate for sexual and reproductive policies and programs, particularly those that intersect colonialism and gender-based violence.
The Indigenous Wellness Program at the First Nations Health Authority uses a ‘sexual wellbeing model’ to build and strengthen conversations around traditional knowledge and ways of being in regard to healthy sexuality.
This fact sheet is tailored for health care providers offering care to Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, transgender, and gender diverse (IWG2STGD+) individuals.
It provides essential insights into: • Trauma-informed care. • The importance of trauma-informed care as it relates to promoting sexual and reproductive health. • Practical recommendations for delivering trauma-informed care.
"The integration of realistic itapisinown, or Indigenous worldviews, into midwifery and reproductive care services ensures they are grounded in the diverse socio-cultural contexts and beliefs, values, skills, and knowledge of First Nations, Indian, Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis individuals and communities." - Toronto Birth Centre
