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Newcomers Navigating Healthcare. A Community Conversation (2023) (2023)

This report presents the findings and insights from conversations that took place at the “Newcomers Navigating Healthcare: A Community Dialogue” in April 2023. The purpose of the event was to learn about and discuss the challenges and systemic inequities that newcomers experience when accessing healthcare services on Vancouver Island. Participants from various service areas were encouraged to consider how best to overcome these challenges by implementing better processes and policies and taking concrete actions in their respective sectors.


This virtual space is designed to help us connect across the land that we are currently calling Canada. Our members are standing on different parts of this land that many Indigenous peoples have been taking care of for millennia before settlers arrived. We acknowledge the injustices that have been committed in the past and the harms that continue. We are committed to learning, sharing knowledge, and working towards a just future through building respectful relationships between established or recent settlers and the first nations of what we now call Canada. For learning more about native land: https://native-land.ca