Webinar: Native American Health and Healing Approaches

The STAR (Support, Technical Assistance and Resources) Center presented this webinar on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 2 – 3:30 p.m. ET.

A recording is availalbe below.

Presenters: Shirley Montoya, Project Manager and Anthony Lee, Traditional and Culture Instructor, Healing Circles Wellness Center in Shiprock, New Mexico; Rudy Soto, Policy Analyst, National Council of Urban Indian Health.

Description:

Understanding and embracing indigenous healing approaches is an important way to move forward in addressing healthcare inequalities, especially in Native communities. In this STAR Center webinar, our presenters shared examples of self-care and healing approaches that are used in urban, rural and frontier communities, described the history, foundations, values and standards inherent in these approaches as well as offered recommendations for how these approaches may be better engaged by Native people in states, territories and tribal governments across the country.

We hope you are engaged, educated and empowered by this provocative and inspiring webinar presentation on approaches to eliminating the health and mental health disparities in our communities.

View Recorded Webinar

Download Shirley Montoya and Anthony Lee Presentation

Download Rudy Soto Presentation

Cultural Competence in Mental Health

This document, issued by the Temple Collaborative on Community Inclusion, defines cultural competence and discusses disparities in mental health care. It also describes cultural barriers, biases and stereotypes and makes suggestions for incorporating cultural competency standards into practice. It also includes a list of useful internet resources.

http://tucollaborative.org/pdfs/Toolkits_Monographs_Guidebooks/community_inclusion/Cultural_Competence_in_MH.pdf

NAMI Multicultural Action Center

"NAMI created the Multicultural Action Center in 2002 to focus attention on system reform to eliminate disparities in mental health care for diverse communities, ensure access to culturally competent services and treatment for all Americans, and particularly to help and support people of diverse backgrounds who are affected by serious mental illness."

This website contains news, resources, links and the NAMI Multicultural Action Center Newsletter.

http://www.nami.org/Multicultural/

Office of Minority Health: Mental Health

"The Office is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities." The Mental Health section of this website includes informative articles, data, statistics, fact sheets, publications and links to other useful Web sites on minority mental health and cultural competence in mental health services.

http://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlID=26