San'yas is a nationally recognized training program aimed at improving cultural safety for Indigenous people accessing health services.

San'yas means "way of knowing" in Kwak'wala. Kwak'wala is the language of the Kwakwaka'wakw Peoples.  Northern Vancouver Island and surrounding areas are the traditional and unceded lands of the Kwakwaka'wakw Peoples.

The first San'yas training was designed by Indigenous educators in British Columbia in 2008. Today, San'yas Cultural Safety Training delivers Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) training across multiple sectors including health care, justice, policing, child and family services, education, business and government. This nationally recognized training offers an online, facilitated environment for learning about cultural safety. As of December 2020, over 120,000  people have taken San'yas training across multiple provinces.

Course content aims to:

Increase knowledge of the history of Indigenous people in Canada

Build self-awareness of biases and assumptions

Strengthen the skills of those who work both directly and indirectly with Indigenous people to ensure they have access to culturally safe care and services.

San'yas is administered by the Indigenous Health department at the Provincial Health Services Authority in Vancouver, British Columbia. Our office is located within the unceded traditional and ancestral territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, Stó:lo, and Musqueam Nations.

Info from: http://www.phsa.ca