Championing Culturally Safe Care & Birth Justice Ft. Elsie Amoako Purposeful Empathy Hosted by Anita Nowak

Watch this episode to learn how one social enterprise is tackling
maternal health justice for racialized groups head-on. Elsie
Amoako is the Founder and CEO of Mino Care, a non-profit
organization that provides access to culturally safe healthcare
services for racialized birthing persons. In this episode, she
discusses how racial stereotypes and implicit biases negatively
impact the healthcare outcomes of people of colour. She also
highlights the importance of fostering culturally safe healthcare
and describes how it can literally save lives. 00:00 Preview
00:38 Introduction 01:03 About Elsie Amoako 02:46 Elsie’s
backstory that led to Mino Care 05:26 How racism, racial
stereotypes and implicit bias impact racialized people’s
healthcare 10:52 The mission of Mino Care 13:10 How birth justice
workshops fuelled Mino Care’s expansion 19:18 What does
“culturally safe” healthcare mean and why does it matter? 23:56 A
vision for scaling Mino Care 28:08 The Inner Development Goals
31:16 How has Ashoka Canada impacted Elsie’s work? 33:28 Elsie’s
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Tsvariani