With the passing the Affordable Care Act, American Indian and Alaska Native individuals (AI/AN) received unprecedented access health care systems. Special benefits and protections specifically codified for improved access to quality healthcare systems were put in place for AI/AN’s. The National Indian Health Board works daily with a variety of federal partners provide outreach and […]
Capacity building
Building a Culture of Health by Creating Opportunities for Boys and Young Men of Color
Expanding opportunities and eliminating barriers to health and success for young men of color is critical to fully realizing a national “culture of health,” a series of issue briefs from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds. Commissioned in conjunction with RWJF’s $12 million commitment to Forward Promise, an initiative to improve the prospects of boys […]
Reducing Mental Illness in Rural Jails
U.S. jail admissions reach 11 million annually, and the number of people in county jails is now at four times the size of the 1970 jail population. Much of this growth has been driven by small and mid-sized counties, which now make up more than 75 percent of the U.S. jail population. Jails across the […]
Cultural and Linguistic Competence Health Practitioner Assessment
The Cultural and Linguistic Competence Health Practitioner Assessment (CLCHPA) self-guided learning activity was developed by the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence. The CLCHPA is designed to enhance the delivery of high quality services for diverse patient/client populations, and promote cultural and linguistic as essential approaches addressing health and healthcare disparities. The CLCHPA is […]
Culturally Competent Mental Health Practice with Hispanic Clients: Video Training Modules
The Department of Social Work at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) invites you view training sessions on cultural competency and resilience in social work practice with Hispanics. Faculty members Drs. Mark Lusk and Silvia Chavez, in conjunction with the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, have developed coursework and on-line training materials to […]
Surveillance Success Stories: Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Following a coordinated emergency response to a suicide cluster in 2010, tribal leaders began collecting data from multiple sources to describe detailed circumstances of suicide ideation, attempts and deaths. This allowed them to identify the role of substance abuse in suicide attempts and initiate family education for family members of previously suicidal individuals when they […]