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Tend, Gather & Grow

Type: Website

Audience: Community

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #childhood education #environmental health #first foods #food traditions

Tend, Gather and Grow (Tend) is a K-12 curriculum that focuses on native and naturalized plants of the Pacific Northwest region. Through hands-on activities, students explore themes in cultural ecosystems, herbal medicine, plant technologies, tree communities, and wild food traditions. Northwest Native ...

Date added: 03/8/24

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13 Moons Curriculum

Type: Training Video

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #community health #environmental health #first foods #swinomish #traditional foods

The 13 Moon’s Curriculum was developed by the Swinomish Community Environmental Health program with the goal to create an informal and scalable model of environmental health education through the lens of first foods and resources. Each curriculum phase has a ...

Date added: 03/8/24

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Food Sovereignty for Toddlers: Place based learning and nutrition | February 29, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #children #food sovereignty #toddlers

In this presentation, Danita Macy, SNAP-Ed/ Family and Community Health Program Coordinator at Oregon State University, and Shoshoni Walker, Manager of the Food Sovereignty Initiatives for the WEAVE NW Project at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, discuss Food ...

Date added: 02/27/24

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RSV: Nirsevimab Provider Update and Increasing Uptake | January 25, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #children #nirsevimab #pediatrics #rsv #vaccination #vaccine

In this presentation, Paige Killelea MD, goes over a RSV: Nirsevimab Provider Update and Increasing Uptake. She covers RSV signs and symptoms, Disease burden, Current landscape of Nirsevimab & Dosing Guidelines, a quick note on Palivizumab, Abrysvo: RSV vaccination for ...

Date added: 01/25/24

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Children in Hot Cars

Type: Training Video

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #child safety #community education #community training #hot cars

This training from the National Safety Council explains how children can die if left in hot cars, and how to prevent it.

Date added: 10/27/23

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Indigenous Syphilis Awareness Campaigns | September 28th, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #children #congenital syphilis #stop syphilis #syphilis #syphilis prevention

In this presentation, Alicia Edwards MPH, discusses the campaigns and the associated resources in regards to syphilis. Syphilis is on the rise nationwide, and Indian Country is deeply impacted. With the highest primary and secondary syphilis rates and an 800% uptick in congenital syphilis cases among American Indian and Alaska ...

Date added: 09/27/23

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Native Boost Early Childhood Education Training | August 31, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #children #communication #pediatrics #vaccination #vaccine

The August MCH ECHO clinic focused on the new Native Boost Vaccine Confidence Training for Early Childhood Educators & Staff. Presenters for this session included team members from the Native Boost Project at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, ...

Date added: 08/30/23

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Summer Child Passenger Safety | June 29, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #heatstroke #passenger #pediatric #prevention #safety #summer

In this presentation, Tam Lutz (Lummi Nation), MPH, MHA, CPST, MCH Programs Director, Tammie Scott, BS, CPSI, WEAVE-NW Health Educator, and Olivia Whiting-Tovar (Oglala Sioux Tribe), BA, Tribal Injury Prevention Project Coordinator, from the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, ...

Date added: 06/29/23

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Still Birth Prevention | April 27, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #prevention #still birth

The April MCH ECHO clinic focused on the strategies to prevent Still Birth, featuring a presentation on the Happy Birth Day Inc, program, Count the Kicks. Presenters for this session included Jodi Long, Health Equity Director, Healthy Birth Day Inc. ...

Date added: 04/27/23

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Pregnancy and Harm Reduction: A Harm Reduction Toolkit

Type: Download Handouts

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Substance Use Disorder ECHO Program Advancing Pharmacist Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Teams ECHO Program Maternal and Child Health ECHO Program

Keywords: #maternal substance use disorders #patient education #pregnancy

This toolkit, developed in cooperation with the National Harm Reduction Coalition, was created for pregnant and parenting people who use drugs, their loved ones, and their service providers. The purpose of this toolkit is to promote the overall health and ...

Date added: 04/13/23

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	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