Auditor General Michael Ferguson, responding to a scathing anonymous letter alleging inappropriate actions at the B.C. First Nations Health Authority, released an audit critical of the authority since its launch in the autumn of 2013.
Auditor General Michael Ferguson, responding to a scathing anonymous letter alleging inappropriate actions at the B.C. First Nations Health Authority, released an audit critical of the authority since its launch in the autumn of 2013.
Auditor General Michael Ferguson, responding to a scathing anonymous letter alleging inappropriate actions at the B.C. First Nations Health Authority, released an audit critical of the authority since its launch in the autumn of 2013.
ALleast 10 employees who have let because of bullying, tatera volence, oppression and being exposed
to or witnessed sexval harassment. There and a handful of staff who plan to leave. Nevertheless, one can
‘exst within pockes ofthe erganization and be obivious to what i going on. The board is vaguely aware
ORE oulying. They are not aware ofthe other issues Atleast five of these people are
considering going to the press
Staff are confused and discouraged by the constant restructuring and reorganization of staff
ISSUE: Poor Leadership
REEMA emonstates no sutyect mater expertze, nor leadership, andl@paricipated inthe highly
toxic culture of buying, oppression, sexualisaton of Aboriginal women is known internally to be
ineffective, csinterest ‘and a part of the problem. buties
and f¥partcipates i the oppressive culate of Aboriginal woman
RIM 2s brougt ON wile ance sister as employees J would argue that in the Aboriginal
community there are few with these skis, DuNggPrnas never held far eompetiions. @ghas brought them
on at lower positions and quickly accelerated them into bigger larger positions. There are plenty of
indigenous people withthe skils required for these rotes. There are many who a what a toxe
organization Murs, and thay aes hing preerence tM omy and rence iii 1
‘example isa highly toxic individval that insists on Keeping close tof for some reason no one can
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a a policy analyst and is now 27a. Ip is kind and means well bt gyp has
few skills forthe evel of work dis tasked with. Conversations with @ are convoluted and confusing
ISSUE: No operational experience within the FNHA
‘The FNHA people who are leading are mostly pocy analysts with ite to no experience operationalizing
oF implementing. They have pre-planning meetings for planning mestings. They wile brifing notes for
briefing notes, Anyone with operational skil sets are a threat (I andi@Mateam, so they are
‘marginalized. Those who are on gjteam with these skill sets are careful to nat demonstrate too much
knowledge 2s this isa tet 19gQQ@J 2nd therefore to their job
ISSUE: Decision making is bottle necked at the top
People are overcame with information in some departments, bul they are not allowed to take the next
step: to execute operations on and fs paralyzed by decsion making when t comes to approving
action and operationalizing, While areas are given budget, there is a huge surplus at year end because
key decisions are not made. Even smal decisions are forced up the hierarchy fr CEO level review
ISSUE: Excluding the First Nations Health Directors Association
The Fst Nations Healt Directors Association has been sidelined, Tir oxecutve leadership repent to
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operationalizing programs, bu they have no say in whal willbe operationalized. Their expertise = deeply
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ISSUE: Excluding other external partners
Some of the health strategies are provincial im nature and the FNHA promises to include the external
relevant parties such as the Metis, he off reserve, the BC Association of Friendship Centres, Inuit, etc.
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