Caregiving Help, Support, & Information

American Diabetes Association
National Call Center

ADA representatives at the National Call Center (1-800-DIABETES) are your personal guides to information on diabetes, as well as ADA programs and events. Over the last year, more than 350,000 people contacted us with questions and concerns, or to seek support or direction regarding diabetes and its management.

At the core of providing this excellent service are more than 25 highly-trained, dedicated personnel, who answer your non-medical questions in English or Spanish.

http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp

For more information contact:

Email: AskADA@diabetes.org
Email 2: Preguntas@diabetes.org
ATTN: National Call Center
1701 North Beauregard Street
Alexandria, VA 22311
Phone: 800-342-2383

 

American Indian Health
U.S. Library of Medicine

This Web resource on American Indian Health, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, is designed to bring together health and medical resources pertinent to the American Indian population including policies, consumer health information, and research. Links are provided here to an assortment of documents, Websites, databases, and other resources.

http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/

For more information contact:

Email: tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov

 

Association of Native American Physicians

The Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) was founded in 1971 as an educational, scientific, and charitable non-profit corporation. A group of fourteen American Indian and Alaskan Native physicians sought to establish an organization that would provide both support and services to the American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. Current membership is made up of American Indian and Alaskan Native physicians who are at least 1/8 American Indian or Alaskan Native, and who are licensed to practice medicine in the United States.

http://www.aaip.com/

For more information contact:

1225 Sovereign Row, Suite 103
Oklahoma Cit, OK 73108
Phone: 405-946-7072

 

Cancer in American Indian Women and Native Alaskan Women
National Cancer Institute

This site is a collaboration between the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and serves nine populations of women of color: African Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, American Samoans, American Indians, and Alaska Natives.

http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/womenofcolor/aian.html

For more information contact:

6130 Executive Boulevard
Room 6134, Executive Plaza North
Rockville, MD 20852
Phone: 800-422-6237

 

Center for American Indian Health
Johns Hopkins Center

The mission of the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health (CAIH) is to work in partnership with American Indian tribes to raise the health status and self sufficiency of American Indian people to the highest possible level. This mission is accomplished through three core activities: 1) research, 2)service, and 3) training.

http://www.jhsph.edu/caih/index.html

For more information contact:

Allison Barlow
Email: abarlow@jhsph.edu
615 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: 410-955-6931

 

Center for American Indian Research and Education

Publishes the "American Indian Women’s Breast Cancer Guide," designed to help women actively participate in their medical care and become knowledgeable about breast cancer. 

For more information contact:

Phone: 510-843-8661

 

Indian Health Services
Elder Initiative

The goal of the Elder Care Initiative is to promote the development of high-quality care for American Indian and Alaska Native elders by acting as a consultation and liaison resource for IHS, tribal, and urban Indian health programs.

http://www.ihs.gov/medicalprograms/eldercare/Index.asp

For more information contact:

Dr. Bruce Finke
Email: bruce.finke@mail.ihs.gov
Indian Health Service
45 Vernon Street
Northampton, MA 01060
Phone: 413-584-0790

 

Medline Plus
Native American Health Information

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nativeamericanhealth.html

For more information contact:

U.s. National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
Phone: 800-311-3435

 

Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center

http://www.miwrc.org/resources.html

For more information contact:

Suzanne Koepplinger
Executive Director
Email: skoepplinger@miwrc.org
2300 - 15th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: 612-728-2000

 

National Indian Council on Aging

The National Indian Council On Aging, Inc. (NICOA), a non-profit organization, was founded in 1976 by members of the National Tribal Chairmen’s Association that called for a national organization to advocate for improved, comprehensive health and social services to American Indian and Alaska Native Elders.

In addition to providing service through several grants from agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NICOA operates as a National Sponsor of the federal Senior Community Service Employment program (SCSEP) in 15 states through a grant from the Department of Labor. For over 30 years, the organization has provided service as the nation’s foremost advocate for American Indians and Alaska Native Elders.

http://www.nicoa.org/

For more information contact:

1050 Montgomery Blvd NE
Suite 210
Alberquerque, NM 87111
Phone: 505-292-2001

 

Native American Cancer Research

We are dedicated to helping improve the lives of Native American cancer patients and survivors. We seek to reduce Native American cancer incidence and mortality, and to increase survival from cancer among Native Americans.

http://natamcancer.org/

 

Native American Cancer Survivors Network

The National Native American Cancer Survivors Support Network (The Network) is an educational community-based research study created in 1998 to help improve the quality of cancer care and the quality of life for all American Indian, Alaska Native, and First Nations cancer patients and their loved ones.

http://natamcancer.org/community.html

For more information contact:

Phone: 303-838-9359

 

Native American Healing

http://www.healing-arts.org/index2.htm

 

Native American Health & Wellness
Chariot Video

Health and wellness videos for Native Americans.

http://www.chariotdist.com/health/index.htm

For more information contact:

Email: info@chariotdist.com
1274 Lambert Cir.
Lafayette, CO 80026
Phone: 303-666-4558

 

Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center

Provides education and information for Native American women with health concerns such as breast cancer.  Booklets available; call or see Website to order.

For more information contact:

Phone: 605-487-7072

 

Native C.I.R.C.L.E.
The American Indian/Alaska Native Cancer Information Resource Center and Learning Exchange

The Native CIRCLE is a resource center providing cancer-related materials to health care professionals and lay people involved in the education, care and treatment of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

http://cancercenter.mayo.edu/native.cfm

For more information contact:

Email: nativecircle@mayo.edu
Charlton 6; Room 282
200 First Street S.W.
Rochester, MN 55905
Phone: 877-372-1617

 

Native Elder Research Center
University of Colorado at Denver Research Center

The mission of the American Indian and Alaska Native Programs (AIANP) is to promote the health and well-being of American Indians and Alaska Natives, of all ages, by pursuing research, training, continuing education, technical assistance, and information dissemination within a biopsychosocial framework that recognizes the unique cultural contexts of this special population. 

http://www.uchsc.edu/ai/nerc/nerc_index.htm

For more information contact:

Teresa Lapp
Email: Teresa.Lapp@UCHSC.edu
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
13055 E. 17th Ave.
Aurora, CO 80010
Phone: 303-724-1477

 

Native Health Databases

The Native Health Databases contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The databases provide information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples.

http://hsc.unm.edu/library/nhd/

For more information contact:

Email: NHD@salud.unm.edu
Phone: 505-272-0664

 

NativeWeb

http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/health_elder_resources/

 

Tribal Connections
eHealth Information Resources

Thanks to funding from the PNRML and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, our content includes columns from Native American health specialists that combine western and Indian approaches to healing and healthy living and that focus on nutrition and diet. In addition, we seek Indian writers who have an interest in writing health news articles for Tribal Connections, and are working in collaboration with the Native American Health Writers Institute, a new project based at the University of New Mexico-Gallup, to help nurture Indian health writers.

http://www.tribalconnections.org/ehealthinfo/index.html

For more information contact:

National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: 206-543-8262

 

Wisdom of the Elders

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. records and preserves traditional cultural values, oral history, prophesy and other messages of guidance from indigenous elders in order to regenerate the greatness of culture among today’s and future generations of native peoples. As First Peoples, we are humbled by the wisdom of our elders and the deep connection they share with Great Spirit, the world of nature and family. We regard our elders as rapidly vanishing, irreplaceable keepers of oral history, tradition and environment. Values they extol represent an ancient legacy of knowledge which has become as endangered as many disappearing species in our fragile ecosystem.

For more information contact:

Rose High Bear, Co-founder
Email: rose@wisdomoftheelders.org
3203 SE 109th Avenue
Portland, OR 97266
Phone: 800-272-3900

 

Wisdom Steps
Preventative Health for Native American Elders

Wisdom Steps invites Tribal Elders to Participate in activities that build their health. Begun in Minnesota in 1999, Wisdom Steps is a partnership among the American Indian communities and the Minnesota Board on Aging.

http://www.wisdomsteps.org/home.htm

 

Women's Health.gov
Health Problems in American Indian/Native Alaskan Women

The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) is the most reliable and current information resource on women’s health today. We offer FREE women’s health information on more than 800 topics through our call center and Website.

http://www.4women.gov/minority/americanindian/

For more information contact:

Phone: 800-994-9662