Sunday, November 24, 2024
11/24/2024
NATIVE HEALTH is a non-profit, Urban Indian Organization that provides services for American Indians/Alaska Natives that reside in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Phoenix Metro encompasses 25 communities throughout Maricopa County. The majority of the county has been urbanized with the exception of a few agricultural areas and five tribal communities. The target population includes high-risk American Indian and Alaska Native children birth up to 8 years and their families that reside in Phoenix or the suburbs. (Urban dwelling American Indians). The project will also include other high-risk minority children birth to 8 years. Five tribal communities are either fully or partially within the county resulting in many people that reside in the urban community. There are 21 federally recognized tribes in Arizona. The urban community has representation from all or most of these tribes. The project proposes to increase child resiliency through incorporating evidence based programming targeted to young children and parents. The program will enhance and expand an existing Home Visiting Program with added service delivery of in-home mental consultation and referral to treatment (in-home or in the clinic setting). The program will increase integration of services throughout the agency medical and behavioral health sites and will provide resources and opportunities for urban American Indian families as relative to early childhood development, family resources and capacity to support families with young children for school readiness. The program will develop a Youth Child Wellness Council to increase program coordination for the target population as well as develop policy for systems building. Evidence based programs to be implemented are Parents as Teachers Home Visiting Model, Positive Indian Parenting, and a range of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. This program will deploy additional Home Visitors and Community Health Workers in the field while using a Licensed Clinical Social Worker to link and/or provide direct services to families being served. Various community needs assessments conducted in the local communities have identified that the local urban American Indian population has experienced numerous disparities in behavioral health, physical health, social and income disparities. Rates of family violence are greater than for other populations as are other behavioral health and substance abuse concerns. Rates for diabetes and obesity are alarmingly high. American Indian and Alaska Native women are more likely to receive inadequate prenatal care. Adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes are resultant. Families tend to be transient; moving from reservations to the urban center and returning as household circumstance change. Supportive services are especially helpful for families that experience a great deal of transition.
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