We Are IH: Indigenous cultural safety educator facilitating change

Kelsey has worked in a few roles throughout Interior Health and has a lot of pride in the work she has done in these roles. One of her proudest achievements is the relationships she built along the way with coworkers, peers and Nation members. 

As an Indigenous person, building and maintaining relationships has been learning modelled to her by her families and is now instilled in Kelsey. 

Kelsey is passionate about working with people on their journey to Indigenous cultural safety and about working with IH to achieve the recommendations from the In Plain Sight Report.

Kelsey has two daughters, both named after or in remembrance of their grandmothers.

She spends a lot of time supporting her children's extra curricular activities (which include biking, swimming, and gymnastics) saying, “Their hobbies are now my hobbies.” 

Kelsey also enjoys spending time with her family and visiting, and hill biking, which is, as she describes “like mountain biking but with less mountains.” 

Kelsey is an emergent beadwork artisan actively learning to revitalize some of her community’s handwork traditions. She was gifted a hand drum from her grandpa when she started working with Indigenous Partnerships and has been working towards learning traditional songs. 

“Brittany is a consistent and hard-working social worker in the emergency department at RIH. She advocates hard for recipients of care and has been a constant support to the emergency department for a number of years. She also has several cool hobbies!” – Kelsey Arnouse

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