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What is Compass Health doing beyond the land acknowledgment statement?
In order to increase awareness of the culture and history of Coast Salish Peoples, Compass Health is engaged in an ongoing process to spotlight information regarding Indigenous communities, particularly in…
What are Compass Health’s goals in adopting a land acknowledgment statement?
Open meetings and events with a land acknowledgment in order to publicly and explicitly recognize the land where Compass Health provides services is the traditional homelands of Coast Salish Peoples…
How did Compass Health develop a land acknowledgment statement?
https://www.compasshealth.org/faq/how-did-compass-health-develop-a-land-acknowledgment-statement/
Compass Health’s Health Equity Committee drafted a land acknowledgment statement with approval of the Compass Health Leadership Team. The draft statement was shared with Tribal leadership in the region to…
Why is land acknowledgment important? How does it make a difference?
Land acknowledgment is an initial and foundational step toward reconciliation. It is significant and important for many reasons: Indicates reverence and respect for the land and Native inhabitants who have…
What is a land acknowledgment?
https://www.compasshealth.org/faq/what-is-a-land-acknowledgment/
A land acknowledgment statement, as the one above, acknowledges the lands where we currently play, work, and live are the traditional homelands of Indigenous communities. It is more than an…