Canadian Public Health Association 

LET’S is part of the advisory committee for the Canadian Public Health Association’s “Disrupting Structural Stigma” online course and is contributing content to two modules. The course is being developed as part of CPHA’s multi-year project “Engaging Community to Scale and Evaluate Stigma Reduction Interventions,” funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada through the HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund. 

The broader project focuses on building the capacity of health, social service, and public health providers – physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, community health workers, social workers, and support staff – to offer safer, more equitable  STBBI (sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections)-related services and to address stigma within their organizations.

The modules LET’S is supporting focus on how structural stigma operates in interpersonal interactions and in organizational policies, practices, and environments. We are centering the experiences of disabled, Mad, neurodivergent, and other equity-denied communities whose care is often shaped by stigma rather than respect. 

LET’S’ contributions highlight practical steps providers and organizations can take to reduce harm, shift power, and build cultures that treat people as whole, not as diagnoses or risk categories.

By working alongside CPHA and other partners, LET’S is helping to ensure that the online course reflects lived expertise and justice-focused approaches, not just technical compliance. This collaboration is one way we’re contributing to broader shifts in public health toward accountability, accessibility, and community-led definitions of safety.