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Protecting One Another

To thrive our communities have worked hard to protect each member, including our most vulnerable. Today, one way we can protect ourselves and others is by getting vaccinated.

This site contains materials by VacciNative – a national alliance of Elders, clinicians, and public health professionals dedicated to sharing accurate vaccine information for Native people by Native people.

To learn more about the VacciNative Alliance or if you have questions, email us at VacciNative@npaihb.org.

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Videos

PowerPoints

Social Media Toolkits

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Are you a health provider?

Handouts

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Vaccines 101

Vaccine Series & Booster Shots

Vaccine Ingredients

Vaccine Safety

Overcoming Vaccination Fears

Flu Vaccine

COVID-19 Vaccine

Vaccines When You Are Pregnant or Breast/Chestfeeding

Protecting Against RSV

Long COVID

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VacciNative Full PSA

Dr. Lakota Scott (Dine) and Gretchen Ladue (Cowlitz) share how vaccines and other modern medicines work alongside naturopathic and traditional medicines to keep us healthy.

VacciNative Dr. Lakota Scott

Dr. Lakota Scott (Dine) shares how vaccines work alongside naturopathic and traditional medicines to keep us well and able to pass on our culture.

VacciNative Elders

Gretchen Ladue (Cowlitz) shares how vaccines work alongside naturopathic and traditional medicines to enhance our overall health.

Flu Vaccinations

Marie Sagaberd (Lummi) and Dr. Lakota Scott (Dine) share why flu vaccines are important for protecting our families and communities.

PowerPoints

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Protecting Yourself, Your Family and Your Community From Flu

When One is Not Enough – Vaccine Series & Booster Shots

How to Talk with Others about Vaccines

Keeping Safe During Respiratory Illness Season

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Flu Social Media Toolkit

This social media toolkit on the flu vaccine contains images formatted for Facebook and Instagram, as well as suggested post text. Click here to download.

Vaccine Series & Booster Shot Social Media Toolkit

This social media toolkit on vaccine series & booster shots contains images formatted for Facebook and Instagram, as well as suggested post text. Click here to download.

HPV Social Media Toolkit

This social media toolkit on HPV contains images formatted for Facebook and Instagram, as well as suggested post text. Click here to download.

Educational Flip Chart

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Health Providers

Check out these useful educational tools on vaccination. Materials include free handouts, social media content, videos and more!

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VacciNative Flu Toolkit

Materials to empower American Indian and Alaska Native adults to make informed decisions about the flu vaccine.

VacciNative Vaccine Series & Booster Shot Toolkit

Materials to empower American Indian and Alaska Native adults to make informed decisions about vaccines series and booster shots.

Native Boost

Native Boost strives to increase vaccine confidence and childhood immunization rates in Tribal communities across Idaho, Oregon, and Washington by sharing education materials for providers, parents, and caregivers.

COVID-19 Resources

Find additional handouts, guidance, and tools specifically for clinicians.

	Jason Arion Butler is an enrolled member of the Ute Tribe of Fort Duchesne, Utah and is also part Mojave and Cherokee. He resides in Gibson, Idaho with his wife of 22 years, children, and grandchild who are all enrolled members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. He graduated from Idaho State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and earned his Master of Science in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University. He has spent the past 5+ years employed by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Tribal Health and Human Services Department, where he spent time serving as the Recovery Service Coordinator for the Four Directions Treatment Center, the manager for the Community Health Representative program, and recently accepted the position of Behavioral Health Manager. He strives to incorporate Native culture, traditions, morals, and values into the healthcare services provided to Native communities, implementing these practices into his work with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and advocating for the reconstruction of healthcare practices nationally. Today he says, “I am loving life and am extremely thankful to have found a career path I love.

	Carrie Sampson-Samuels is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation located in Eastern Oregon. Carrie has an early background in nursing providing patient care in long term and clinical care settings. Carrie then furthered her education in community health and health studies at Portland State University, later advancing her education in healthcare management at Oregon Health and Sciences University while serving in leadership and executive management for a Tribal health organization as the Community Health Director. Carrie has served Tribes from Oregon to Montana and the Treaty 7 Blackfoot Confederacy in Southern Alberta. As the Community Health Aide Project Director for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Carrie has provided leadership, advocacy and project management for expansion for the Behavioral Health Aide and Community Health Aide Program under the umbrella and direction of the Tribal Community Health Provider Project. This work has led to the expansion of Tribal Community Health Providers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Carrie is responsible for leading partnerships with the education institutions, key Tribal partner sites, contract experts and advisory workgroups. This includes development of education infrastructure, education curriculum, recruitment strategies, tools for integration of providers into tribal health organizations, and working with state partners to develop policy and infrastructure for provider reimbursement. Carrie manages and writes multiple grants that support all aspects of this work and provides technical assistance support to the Portland Area CHAP Certification Board. Carrie is the proud mother of 4 daughters and resides on a small ranch on her Tribal homelands.

	Dr. Liu is a generalist OB/GYN at Gallup Indian Medical Center. In addition to her medical degree, she holds a PhD in Health Policy. Among other publications, she served as the chief editor for the 2019 Oxford University Press book: “50 Studies Every Obstetrician and Gynecologist Should Know.” She has formal training in Quality Improvement processes through the Partners Clinical Process Improvement Leadership Program (CPIP), which she utilized to implement emergency contraception at Massachusetts General Hospital. During her six years at Gallup Indian Medical Center she has primary responsibility for preparing and reporting of metrics related to the delivery of obstetric care, and serves on the Continuing Medical Education committee.

	Dr. Hoover is from Chicago, where he grew up and went to medical school, at Rush University, on Chicago’s diverse West Side. He was trained in Urology at Boston Medical Center in Boston’s beautiful South End neighborhood. Dr. Hoover went on to pursue fellowship training in voiding dysfunction and laser prostate surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Hoover is a Board-Certified Urologist, by the American Board of Urology, having achieved this honor in 2018. Dr. Hoover has several peer-reviewed publications, including research studies and medical illustrations. His family is happy to call Gallup home since the end of 2017. In their free time they like to explore New Mexico’s wilderness and go camping. Now that their two girls are growing up, it’s also imperative that we catch Pokemon wherever we go.Dr. Hoover is the only Urologist in McKinley County, New Mexico, and in any of the surrounding counties– it’s just him between Albuquerque and Flagstaff. He’s happy to continue seeing established patients, and is accepting new patients from the entire region. Dr. Hoover believes in communication, candor, and compassion as essential tenets of patient care. Dr. Hoover is an expert in general Urology, male and female voiding dysfunction, kidney stones and kidney stone surgery, BPH and laser prostate surgery, erectile dysfunction, vasectomy, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, testicular cancer. Many of the procedures he do as a Urologist are done in the office including: cystoscopy, vasectomy, urodynamics, treatment foroveractive bladder, and many others. Please call/text or email and let him and his staff know how they can help you.

	Eric Wortmann, MD is the former Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility. Besides patient care, Eric has a deep passion for mentoring aspiring physicians and health care providers. He was the Education Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle as well as Adjunct Faculty for the US Army teaching Special Forces Medics. He has been a visiting professor of Emergency Medicine in Haiti and has worked in the Dominican Republic since 1989. Eric has a long-time passion as a mid and long-distance running coach. He has lived on Kauai for 30 years. Currently he divides his time between Northern Italy and Hawaii. Recently he was accepted into Doctors without Borders USA and is awaiting his first assignment.

	Corey Detlefs, MD, FACS, is the Trauma Outreach Director and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix

Protecting One Another

Handouts

Videos

PowerPoints

Social Media Toolkits

EducationalFlip Chart

Are you a health provider?

Handouts

Vaccines 101

Vaccine Series & Booster Shots

Vaccine Ingredients

Vaccine Safety

Overcoming Vaccination Fears

Flu Vaccine

COVID-19 Vaccine

Vaccines When You Are Pregnant or Breast/Chestfeeding

Protecting Against RSV

Long COVID

Videos

VacciNative Full PSA

VacciNative Dr. Lakota Scott

VacciNative Elders

Flu Vaccinations

PowerPoints

Protecting Yourself, Your Family and Your Community From Flu

When One is Not Enough – Vaccine Series & Booster Shots

How to Talk with Others about Vaccines

Keeping Safe During Respiratory Illness Season

Social Media Toolkits

Flu Social Media Toolkit

Vaccine Series & Booster Shot Social Media Toolkit

HPV Social Media Toolkit

Educational Flip Chart

Health Providers

VacciNative Flu Toolkit

VacciNative Vaccine Series & Booster Shot Toolkit

Native Boost

COVID-19 Resources

Educational
Flip Chart