About Us: Native Wellness Institute
Wellness Institute Grant-funded programs
Administration for Native Americans (ANA) Healthy Families Grant
NWI was recently awarded a three-year ANA grant to develop a healthy relationship curriculum based in Native culture. The curriculum, Leading the Next Generations, is based on the healthy relationship work of Pam and Gordon James including their book “Coming Together in a Good Way.” The purpose of the curriculum is to engage traditional Native teachings to address the challenges that have led to the deterioration of the Native family system and provide a much-needed resource for tribes and Native organizations nationally to more effectively promote healthier relationships, healthier marriages and healthier families within Native communities.
NWI has partnered with the National Indian Child Welfare Association who is providing the Native-specific evaluation for this project. The curriculum development project is entering its second year where four tribes have been selected to receive training: Blackfeet (Montana); Washoe (Nevada and California); Mt. Sanford Tribal Consortium (Alaska) and Skokomish (Washington).
The Leading the Next Generation curriculum will be available to tribal communities and organizations nationally in 2008. For information on the project contact:
Pam James, Project Director
Leading the Next Generations
360-898-7071
pam@nativewellne
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State of Oregon Department of Education “TRENS” Project
Teaching Risk-reduction Education to Native School-age Youth
NWI was awarded a one-year grant from the Oregon Department of Education to work with Oregon tribal youth both reservation and urban-based to provide training to peer educators. The purpose of the project is to provide HIV/STD and teen pregnancy prevention training to high school aged youth who will then provide community education to their peers.
For more information on this project contact:
Jillene Joseph
503-666-7669
jillene@nativewellness.com
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
Project Red Talon
NWI is in the second year of a three year contract with the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board’s Project Red Talon. NWI assists with providing culturally appropriate HIV/STD and related training to Northwest tribal communities.
Tribal Contracts
Over the past year, NWI has contracted with or partnered with many tribes and organizations to provide technical assistance, training and conference coordination activities. Here are a few examples:
- National Indian Child Welfare Association Positive Indian Parenting training, health expo conference coordination, youth training
- Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and Portland Area Indian Health Service
- Nike Native fitness training
- Siletz Tribe- youth conference
- Warm Springs Tribes- youth conference
- Ft. Belknap Indian community- youth training
- Washoe Tribe of California and Nevada- youth training, women’s wellness retreat, men’s wellness retreat, family wellness retreat, suicide training, TANF staff development retreat, meth task force meeting facilitation
- Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California tribal court wellness project
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- SPIPA TANF program wellness conference
- Yellow Knife Tribal consortium youth training
- Ft. McDermitt teen pregnancy training
- Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde youth leadership development
- Skokomish Tribe’s youth leadership development
- Native American Finance Officers Association conference coordination
- Redwood Valley Rancheria Women’s Wellness retreat
- Intertribal Health Consortium- British Columbia healing retreats
- Muckleshoot tribe’s diabetes conference
- Indian Health Service youth conference
- Sage Memorial hospital staff development training
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