Vision & Guiding Principles

VISION

The vision of the REACH Program is to support community healthcare innovations that improve the prevention, management and understanding of diabetes, and that ultimately lead to closing the healthcare gap for Indigenous communities across Canada.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

To achieve our vision, the REACH Program honours the principles of OCAP®, Participatory Action Research principles, and operates according to the following core principles:

RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIPS

Reciprocal relationships and meaningful collaborations with Indigenous community partners

CENTERING INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

  • Centering local Indigenous Knowledge and worldview
  • Centering community-driven, community-centric and community-based programs
  • Centering community-driven innovations combining community programs and clinical services

LEARNING & ADAPTATION

Ongoing learning and adaptation of program processes

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Numbers
General Inquiries (519)-858-5028
Toll Free 1-(855)-858-6872
Fax (519)-858-5029
Toll Free Fax 1-(877)-809-5108

Email
reachcommunity@uwo.ca
Address
REACH Program,
Centre for Studies in Family Medicine,
Western Centre for Public Health & Family Medicine,
Western University, 1151 Richmond St., LONDON, ONTARIO N6A 3K7
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Business Hours
Monday — Friday 8am – 5pm EST
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We acknowledge that Western University is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Chonnonton Nations, on lands connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum. With this, we respect the longstanding relationships that Indigenous Nations have to this land, as they are the original caretakers. We acknowledge historical and ongoing injustices that Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) endure in Canada, and we accept responsibility as a public institution to contribute toward revealing and correcting miseducation as well as renewing respectful relationships with Indigenous communities through our teaching, research and community service.