IHS Health PromotionDisease Prevention Initiative

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IHS Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
Initiative
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Goal

• Create healthier American Indian and Alaska
  Native communities by building on individual,
  family and community strengths and assets.

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Strategies

• Focus on effective clinical and community public
  health strategies
• Identify and implement best practices to reduce
  the health burden in AI/AN communities
• Increase community capacity and infrastructure

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Strategies

• Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) to provide
  oversight and policy guidance to the agency
• Developed Annual Plan focusing on
• Educational Policies
• Partnership
• Community Assessment
• Marketing

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Strategies

• Prevention Task Force
• Representation from across disciplines
• Drafted comprehensive Strategic Plan
• Develop structural focus for prevention
• Expand and maintain community capacity
• Develop an operational plan support model
• Expand coalitions and partners
• Create incentives and accountability
• Expand wellness policies to support healthier
  behaviors
• Future Plan
• Establish HP/DP Council Charter

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Build Community Capacity
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Healthy Native Communities Fellowship

• HNCF is based on an action-learning model in
  which insights, skills, and new knowledge is
  shared and applied in real life situations
• 81 fellows have graduated
• 15 teams were select for FY 2007

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Where are the Fellows from?
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Strategies

• Community Champion Forums
• Share success stories, network, and recognize
  local champions
• Held in 11 of the 12 IHS Areas
• On-going in some Areas
• Expand Just Move It campaign to get 1 million
  AI/AN moving
• Partnership with Mothers Against Drunk Driving to
  address underage drinking and drunk driving.

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Youth Projects

• Support Regional Youth Summit to get youth engage
  in addressing issues
• Summits were held in
• Albuquerque, NM with over 500 youth and adults in
  FY 2005.
• Eugene, Oregon (over 250 youth and adults) in FY
  2006.
• Youth in Action training to reduce underage
  drinking

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Competitive Grants

• Providing competitive grants to support health
  promotion and chronic disease prevention.
• 20 competitive grants awarded in 2005
• 13 competitive grants in 2006
• 100,000 per year for a 3 year cycle

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FY 2005 HP/DP Grantees
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Fiscal Year 2006 Health Promotion/Disease
Prevention (HP/DP) Grantees
Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan
Chippewa Cree Tribe
Huron Potawatomi, Inc
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
Round Valley Indian Health Center
South Central Foundation
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
Pueblo of San Felipe
Norton Sound Health Corporation
Indian Health Resource Center of Tulsa
Kodiak Area Native Association
Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council,
Inc
Southeast Alaska Regional Consortium
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Website Clearinghouse

• Best and promising practices
• Grant Announcement
• Resources
• Future
• Community Assessment Tools
• Health Profile by IHS Area

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Evaluations

• Conduct process, impact, and outcome evaluations
  that are aligned with GPRA and Healthy People
  2010 objectives
• Annual HP/DP Reports
• Progress, impact, and outcomes
• Trend reports (RPMS, GPRA)
• Community Health Assessment
• Behavioral Risk Surveys
• Directors HP/DP Benchmarks

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For more information

• http//www.ihs.gov/hpdp/
• http//www.justmoveit.org
• http//www.healthynativecommunities.org