Madrona’s Diversity and Equity Commitment
We acknowledge that many people experience unique barriers to health and diminished access to health care support. This is not an equal playing field - based on one’s background, intersecting identities, and particular systemic marginalizations, many face health barriers outside of their own control.
It is our intention to cultivate a non-judgemental space where people of all colours, genders, sexual orientations, body types, socio-economic status, as well as people of all abilities, health statuses & challenges feel welcome.
It is our intention to contribute to our community in a way that acknowledges those barriers, is committed to inclusivity and honours diversity, but more than that, works to create equity through our actions.
We bring humility in acknowledging that as a new business still finding our feet, this is very much a work in process.
We continue to learn how to best honour this intention. We continue to learn how to deepen our ability to offer safe space, or perhaps more truly “safer” space for healing.
- Dr. Hannah Webb, ND, Clinic Owner & Director
Land Acknowledgement
We honour & recognize that we live, eat, breathe and play on unceded indigenous land. We are a group of settler Canadians who operate a clinic on the traditional territories of Coast Salish SENĆOŦEN and HUL’Q’UMI’NUM’ speaking Peoples. We recognize that systemic racism is a part of our daily lives, often unseen, and that most of us on our team come from a place of various privileges. We recognize too that many people experience different forms of prejudice, and yet and particularly, we are all on indigenous land as a result of the fundamental colonial power and oppression that our country is founded upon.
