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 Purposeful Empathy Story CONNECT WITH ANITA ✩ Email [email protected] ✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com/ ✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak/ ✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram ✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathy... ✩ Facebook Group https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathy... ✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathy... CONNECT WITH ELSIE ✩ Ashoka Canada Profile https://ashokacanada.org/fellow/elsie-amoako/ ✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/elsieamoako/ ✩ Mino Care https://www.minocare.ca/ ✩ Mino Fest https://www.minofest.com/ Season 14 of Purposeful Empathy is brought to you in collaboration with Ashoka Canada. Ashoka Canada is devoted to catalyzing social entrepreneurship and innovation aimed at driving systemic change. The Ashoka Canada story is one of solutions, developed over decades of searching, selecting, and supporting our country’s highest impact Social Entrepreneurs. Together, they represent some of Canada's most impactful responses to critical challenges. Learn more at https://ashokacanada.org/ Show Notes Inner Development Goals https://innerdevelopmentgoals.org/ Video edited by David Tsvariani