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Cultural safety: Cultural safety ensures individuals feel respected and empowered. It addresses power imbalances, systemic inequities, and historical injustices affecting marginalized groups. It requires organizational change to foster environments where identities can be expressed without fear of discrimination, exclusion, or harm. Cultural safety is defined not by the dominant group but by those who experience the services or workplace culture. Diversity: Groups may be diverse but an individual is not. Diversity includes all the ways that people differ from each other. Diversity alone is not a strategy but a recognition that everyone regardless of age, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, etc., has value. Equity/equitable: Fairness and justice as distinguished from equality. Where equality means providing the same to all, equity refers to the effort to provide different levels of support based on individual or group needs to achieve fairness in outcomes.
Equity-seeking/rights-seeking/equity-deserving groups: Groups who have historically been denied equal access to employment, education, and other opportunities, and includes members of an Indigenous community; persons of Black/African Descent; immigrants and refugees; persons with disabilities; racialized communities (non-Indigenous, non-white); women; members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Housing provider: An organization, society, or other entity that operates places to live for renters with low incomes. Inclusion: Although diverse, some groups do not include all voices. Inclusion implies everyone is considered and valued in processes, activities, decision and policy-making in a way that shares power. Indigenous Peoples: Indigenous Peoples is a collective name for the original peoples of North America and their descendants. The Canadian Constitution recognizes three groups of Indigenous Peoples: First Nations, Inuit and Métis. These are three distinct peoples with unique histories, languages, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs. “First Nations people” include Status and non- Status Indians.
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