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Causes: Ethnic & Immigrant Centers, Human Services, Immigration
Mission: The organization empowers, educates, and provides supportive services to build healthy native american children and families.
Programs: Early intervention - provides direct family focused developmental service and service coordination to enhance the developmental outcomes of many native american infants and toddlers with or at risk for developmental delays. This home-based service is provided in four counties, serving urban and rural tribal communities.
early head start - provides quality child and family development services to income eligible pregnant native american women and families with infants and toddlers in home and center based settings. Early head start is funded for many pregnant women, infants, and toddlers.
federal funded home visits - tribal home visiting - provides parenting education and support using an evidence-based model for native american pregnant mothers and families with children up to 5 years old. Direct services began in november of 2012 with the goal of serving an additional 60 pregnant women and families with children under age 5. This funding provides for outreach to promote the tribal home visting program. A significant portion of funding is for program evaluation and an evaluation research study to contribute to the literature based on the effectiveness of home visiting in tribal communities.