Success Stories by Topic: American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians

• Chickasaw Nation Rural Health Outreach Program
  May 2009
  The Chickasaw Nation Rural Health Outreach Program was designed to provide a range of primary health care services to Native American elders living in the most rural and remote areas of the region. Specifically, the program was designed to expand services to areas where geriatric care was not available.
• Choctaw Nation Specialty Services Program
  May 2009
  The project consortium, led by the Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority, provided many services such as ophthalmology, cardiology, orthopedics, pediatric dental care, pediatric endocrinology, Alzheimer’s care, psychiatry, neurology, and otorhinolaryngology to residents of an underserved area.
• Mobile Unit Brings Cancer Screenings to Native American Women
  November 2008
  Describes how the Mobile Women's Health Unit works to meet the needs of Native American women living in rural areas.
• Healthy Nations Initiative
  October 2008
  The Healthy Nations Initiative was funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help Native Americans reduce the harm caused by substance abuse in their communities.
• California InfoNet Project
  June 2007
  The InfoNet Project was formed to strengthen Tuolumne County residents access to health and social services by providing an easy-to-use website to provide information and assistance service for low-income households, the homeless, seniors, people with disabilities, Latinos and Native Americans.
• Dancing to Deter Diabetes
  June 2007
  The "Reach Out" project in rural Lake County, California, helps diabetics learn about nutrition and medication, and they dance.
• Ho-Chunk Nation Youth Fitness Project
  January 2007
  The need for this project was to address the overweight/obesity problem for Native American children ages 6-18 through an after-school based program involving fitness, nutrition and wellness (selfesteem) components.
• Keya Program - Long Life for Good Health
  January 2007
  This project seeks to reduce overweight and obesity to prevent diabetes and to improve the health status of those with diagnosed diabetes.
• Rural Access: Mental Health Care Project
  January 2007
  The Rural Access: Mental Health Care Project will increase behavioral and mental health care services to low-income American Indian children and youth living on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in rural northeastern Montana.
• Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation Program
  January 2007
  The overall goal of this proposed project is to meet the healthcare needs of elders so they can remain in their communities and stay connected to their homes and families for as long as possible.
• Colorectal Cancer Screening Consortium
  January 2007
  This project will form a Colorectal Cancer Screening Consortium through the Kenaitze Indian Tribe (KIT), the Ninilchik Traditional Council, and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC).
• Cold Water Safety in the Schools Program
  July 2005
  This program was established to deliver cold water safety and survival training to rural teachers, paraprofessionals, pool staff, and rural elementary, middle, and high school children throughout Alaska.
• Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  Consortium partner members designed the Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program to expand and enhance an established mobile primary clinic through patient education, increased trips per month, and increased patient visits per trip through a dial-a-ride program.
• Fort Peck Community College Rural Health Outreach
  July 2005
  This outreach project was established to improve the health and fitness level of the tribal adult population of the Fort Peck Reservation and eligible individuals over the age of 14 living adjacent to the reservation.
• Wellness Partnership for a Healthy McKinley County
  July 2005
  This project involved an innovative education program that used high school students to mentor elementary students in diabetes prevention techniques with the goal to improve the wellness of the community by developing healthy living skills in the 10-to 12-year-old population, and specifically to incorporate diabetes awareness activities into this target group's school day.