Committees

The Environmental Justice and Reconciliation committee seeks to fulfill the following objectives in CANE’s Constitution:

• Participating in research, education, advocacy, and practice (REAP) for environmental and climate justice.
• With cultural humility, actively seeking to support Indigenous-led decolonization and promote anti-colonial land and biodiversity stewardship.
• Adopting a stance of intersectionality in our work.
• Forefronting and upholding the voices and stories of those affected by environmental injustices, including Indigenous, Black, racialized, and low-income people, organizations, and communities.

Co-Chairs:

Alysha Jones

Alysha (she/her) is a white settler, community health nurse and clinical nurse educator, currently working in a community health centre in W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən peoples territories in so-called Victoria, BC. In addition to nursing, Alysha has a background in ecopsychology and is most interested in planetary health within the frame of environmental and climate justice.

Julie Aeyelts

Julie (she/her) has worked in various nursing contexts, including emergency, remote, and humanitarian. She has completed a Master of International Forestry at UBC and currently works for the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) Rights and Title Department as an Environmental Specialist.

Curious? Please check out our Environmental Justice and Reconciliation Committee page!

One of the main goals of this committee is to prepare curriculum resources and learning activities that can be used by schools of nursing to integrate environmental and ecoliteracy content and theory into nursing curriculum. Nurses can also use these resources to develop their personal ecoliteracy.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

As part of this process, we are planning the following deliverables:

• Curate a collection of existing resources related to planetary health on the CANE website.
• Conduct an environmental scan of resources and activities currently offered by nursing schools.
• Conduct a review of the literature and available resources.
• Design a survey to gather input from nurses and nursing faculty about topics to focus on;
• Develop learning activities on a variety of planetary health and ecoliteracy topics.
• Organize educational events for CANE members.

Chair: June Kaminski

Recognizing that CANE’s objectives are highly relational, this committee is devoted to building connections and establishing networks with allies in the promotion of planetary health. We also work to foster the professionalism and positive reputation of CANE in the work that we do.

The duties and functions of the Committee shall be to carry out the purpose of the Committee, through the direction of the Board of Directors, as well as seeking out new opportunities for CANE’s public relations and engagement with a diversity of public within a diversity of settings, directly relating to health, or not. Our purpose will be accomplished through regular Committee meetings, small group work, research-based advice and expertise seeking, whereby necessary documents can be developed, as well as networking and building connections outside of meeting times.

Chair: Jessica Madrid