TRAININGS & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
The Decolonizing Academy
Decolonizing through training and technical assistance.
IHEI is cultivating a decolonizing practice among the public health workforce and Indigenous health advocates that encourages the collective learning and application of Indigenous values.
We aim to provide avenues for the leadership and staff within white-dominant settler institutions to address and heal from the impacts of colonialism where we can work towards eliminating barriers and creating environments that foster Health Justice. Similarly, we aim to promote new skill building for Indigenous health professionals to strengthen their role as leaders for data sovereignty and Health Justice within the public health data and equity ecosystems.
To truly achieve this expansive vision, we offer the Decolonizing Academy to house trainings and technical assistance programs aimed at reimagining public health through a decolonizing lens that works toward addressing the lasting impacts of settler colonialism as a determinant of health.
These efforts are deeply rooted in the principles of Indigenous reciprocity and respect, ensuring that our practices contribute to a more just public health landscape.
We offer trainings and technical assistance to institutions, organizations, leaders, and advocates who want to build a workforce that addresses the root causes of health inequity using decolonizing as a driver for Health Justice.
The Decolonizing Academy provides tools and learning to:
Build Capacity and Activate Decolonial Allyship.
We focus on developing skills and promoting decolonial allyship to ensure that public health workforce and institutions are equipped to support Health Justice.
Engage and Integrate Decolonizing Best Practices.
Our trainings incorporate decolonizing tools, methodologies, and actions.
Interrupt Systemic Racism.
The Decolonizing Academy actively works to disrupt, unsettle, and replace systems and structures that perpetuate systemic racism, including anti-Indigenous and anti-black racism.
Culturally-tailored Approaches
We provide tools for Indigenous health professionals and advocates to navigate and critique health data systems, promote data justice, and advance career pathways for Indigenous-led systems change.
Our approach to evaluating the impact of our trainings emphasize a strengths-based methodology, focusing on the transformative potential within systems.
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Our interventions for Health Justice move data equity initiatives and practices beyond the conventional DEI model.
This work is inherently relationship-based and collaboration is required to fully interrupt cycles of racism, inequity, and harm resulting from institutionalized settler colonialism frameworks evidenced across the micro and macro levels of public health. Thus, we bring this work forth by engaging a network of epidemiologists, policy advocates, decision-makers, students, and community leaders dedicated to building socially-just institutions of public health.
We offer culturally-tailored curriculum for decision makers and analysts to have the grounding, training, and tools to decolonize harmful practices, heal from the lasting impacts of colonization, and organize critical institutional change.
Health Justice Data Sovereignty Model
Data Collection is a sacred Indigenous ancestral practice that has and always will be part of our traditional ways of being. This short film by the Urban Indian Health Institute, one of IHEI’s key partners, depicts data as a storytelling and gathering practice that is shared with respect, reciprocity, and intention, which guides our model of Health Justice Data Sovereignty.
Empowered through our curriculum.
Represented in our cohorts.
Engaged with our initiatives and sent public health officials to our trainings.
Building Capacity Across Oregon
Our capacity-building efforts support:
Decolonizing health data
Fostering institutional-community reciprocal relationships
Creating conditions/spaces/practices/ecosystems conducive to the adoption of decolonizing practices.
Growing skills to incorporate Indigenous values, decolonial methodologies, and healing-justice approaches into public health practices.