Developed in partnership with Kacey Yellowbird, an experienced Health Specialist and long time friend of ARPA, The Indigenous Employee Toolkit is designed to help organizations foster cultural sensitivity and inclusivity for Indigenous employees by addressing their unique practices, beliefs, and experiences.
Identify your own lack of understanding towards practices, beliefs and attitudes of Indigenous Peoples. Through this process, organizations can begin to explore how to add Indigenous-specific content into their human resource policies, Board governance and/or operational guidelines
Educate yourself and the organization about cultural sensitivity with respect and understanding of how Indigenous Peoples respond or react to family loss, deaths, cultural ceremonies, practices and beliefs.
All organizations need to acknowledge the diversity of
employees from different cultures. Every culture has their own accepted norms and ways of behaviors that they live by that will ultimately translate into the workplace.
Understanding of the nature of Indigenous Peoples, in terms of communication styles, is key to their successful employment. In reality, organizations often havedifferent employees from many cultural backgrounds so this is an important organizational-level skill.
We would like to humbly thank Kacey Yellowbird for sharing his time, knowledge, and experience with us that allowed this toolkit to be created.
Hear from the author Kacey Yellowbird as he shares inspiration behind the Toolkit, and dive deeper into each of the 4 key actions outlined and how you can work towards making your organization more inclusive.
To help us reach as many people as possible, we’d love your support in sharing The Indigenous Employment Toolkit with your networks. We have put together a media package with social media captions and graphics for you to use. Thank you for helping us in sharing this exciting new resource!
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The Alberta Recreation & Parks Association would like to acknowledge the First Nations, the Métis, the Inuit and all of the people across Alberta who share a history and a deep connection with this land. We dedicate ourselves to moving forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in the spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.
