This document aims to reduce stigma through the careful consideration of language associated with sexual health, substance use, and communities and is intended to help health and social service providers identify language that can facilitate safer and more respectful discussions about sexual health, substance use, and STBBIs.
This tool assists organizations in identifying the policy, environmental and cultural factors that contribute to the reduction of stigma and, in turn, creating settings where clients feel welcomed and respected when seeking care.
This psychometrically validated tool, based on the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale, offers several questions to help front-line health and social service providers reflect on their own attitudes, values and beliefs related to STBBIs.
Knowing which terms to use and to whom they apply can often be challenging. Using appropriate language, however, is fundamental to ensuring respectful and positive relationships and to avoiding terms that may be discriminatory or offensive
“White” is used as a shorthand for the privileges and power that people who appear white receive because they are not subjected to the racism faced by people of colour and Indigenous people
Lunch and Learn from Truth and Reconciliation Week 2023