With the help of the community the announcing of the Center for American Indian Community Health was successful. We would like to thank all of those who attended for your support, and thank all of our dancers, singers, and drums for your performances. You can find links below to various news articles that covered the celebration.
To partner and collaborate with American Indian peoples, nations, communities, and organizations to improve the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being of American Indians throughout the United States through quality participatory research and educational programs.
To work with American Indian peoples, nations, communities, and organizations to ascertain the current health needs of American Indians
To address cultural and social issues, such as ethnocentrism, racism, socio-economic disparities, that negatively affect the well-being of American Indians.
To Partner with colleges, universities, and other academic institutions to develop culturally appropriate research methodologies and frameworks that can be utilized to address the health needs of American Indians.
To collaborate with governmental and non-governmental organizations, both Native and non-Native, to obtain and coordinate needed health-related resources for AmericanIndian peoples, nations, communities, and organizations.
To educate both Natives and non-Natives about the current state of Indian affairs in the United States through partnerships with academic institutions.
To create scholarship funds for American Indian students who wish to persue higher education to further the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being of American Indians and their communities.
We welcome any organization, tribe, or individual who share ourmission and objectives to help the Native community.
We hope to bring together people from around the country to pool our ideas and resoures to more effectively help Native people.
University of Kansas Medical Center
Department of Preventive Medicine
MS 1008
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66160
913-588-0866 office
913-588-8398 fax
www.aihrea.com
