This section provides guides, frameworks, and tools to support cultural competent practices and emphasize your own self-care.
  

Guides

• AAISA: Building Champions of Anti-Racism and Anti-Islamophobia: A Practice Guide for Alberta’s Settlement Community
  This practical manual of principles, tools, resources and case examples can help professionals, organizations, government, or communities address racism and Islamophobia at an individual, community, or systems level.
• City for All Women Initiative: Advancing Equity and Inclusion: A Guide for Municipalities
  This guide presents a flexible approach to equity and inclusion. It is adaptable to the diverse structures, contexts, and experiences of municipalities from across Canada.
    

Resources

• The opportunity agenda: Ten tips for putting intersectionality into practice
  This list of tips can serve as a starting point for social justice advocates, policymakers, journalist, and researchers interested in incorporating an intersectional approach in their work.
• The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
  This provides several downloadable resources on specific intersections such as women and poverty, race and gender, and a discussion of intersectional feminist frameworks.
    

Reports

• NewtoBC: Community Immigrant Demographic Profiles
  This provides information about the population in the communities of British Columbia, the national and provincial immigration trends, and relevant demographics.

Tools

• The Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL)
  This validated, 30-item self-report is designed for those in the helping professions. It provides ratings for compassion satisfaction/fatigue, burnout and secondary trauma.