Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center's Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country (GLIIHC-GHWIC) - The Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center’s Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country’s (GLIIHC-GHWIC) purpose is to bring culture, multidisciplinary teams and community together to help prevent and manage chronic disease amongst community members, while bringing them together and providing a sense of belonging and connection to culture.
Through the inclusion of culturally relevant foods and traditions, we plan to enhance the programs that we already offer and will begin to implement some new activities as well. Using cultural and traditional activities we will deliver solutions for chronic disease prevention and management. In addition, we will increase our community members’ sense of being connected to their culture through these offerings. We will enhance and strengthen the systems we use to detect and screen community members for chronic disease. We will offer educational opportunities for community members to learn ways to better manage and prevent chronic disease through culturally relevant activities. In addition, these systems will incorporate interdisciplinary teams to ensure that all aspects of a patient’s health are attended to. This will include behavioral health, dental, medical, pharmacy and physical activity. We will improve the systems that refer community members with chronic disease or risk factors to clinicians and outside social service agencies. And finally, we will also identify policies and procedures that need to be established to promote healthy habits and prevent chronic disease and their risk factors. Through these efforts, our long-term outcome and goal is to see a reduction in chronic disease within our community.
As an applicant for Component 1, we are focused on the three required strategies for this Cooperative Agreement opportunity. For Strategy 1, short-term outcomes include: 1) Increased community member participation in family-centered cultural activities. 2) Increased sense of belonging to Tribe, Village, and community. 3) Increased community member participation in family-centered cultural activities. 4) Increased sense of identity. 5) Increased community member participation in family-centered cultural activities. 6) Increased sense of identity. 7) Increased sense of belonging to Tribe, Village, and community. 8) Increased sense of belonging to Tribe, Village, and community. 8) Increased sense of belonging to Tribe, Village, and community. For Strategy 2, short-term outcomes include: 1) Increased participation in prevention, management, and control programs, including self-management and self-monitoring, for commercial tobacco use, diabetes (including prediabetes), high blood pressure, obesity (physical activity and nutrition), and oral health. 2) Increased participation in traditional and contemporary wellness activities that prevent commercial tobacco use, diabetes (including prediabetes), high blood pressure, obesity, and oral diseases. For Strategy 3, short-term outcomes will include: 1) Increased use of multidisciplinary care teams implementing team-based care to prevent, manage, and control chronic diseases.
