CHEMEHUEVI INDIAN TRIBE - health & Wellness center

Personnel:
Sierra Fisher –  Community Health Representative 

•  The Wellness Center is committed to facilitate and establish a positive quality of life emotionally, physically, spiritually and mentally in the Chemehuevi Community. 

• To provide quality outreach health care services and health promotion/disease prevention services to the Community.

• Assessment and Case Management-Client evaluation, short/long term goals.
• Prevention/Education Services-group or one on one basis.
• Home Management Assistance-daily living skills, applying financial assistance, medical appointment scheduling.
• Administrative Contract Requirements.

• The CHR program was implemented to improve the health knowledge, attitudes and practices of Indian people by promoting, supporting, and assisting the Indian Health Services (IHS) in delivering a total health care program. The efforts of CHR staff have produced an American Indian and Alaska Native health service delivery system, which provides for follow-up and continued contact with the health care delivery system at the community level, thereby meeting the most basic needs of the American Indian population.
• The goal of the CHR program is to address health care needs through the provision of community-oriented primary care services, including traditional Native concepts in multiple’ settings, utilizing community based well trained, medically guided health care workers.

Personnel: Sheila Nau, ICWA Director

The Health and Wellness Center is committed to facilitate and establish a positive quality of life emotionally, physically, spiritually and mentally in the Community.

The Indian Child Welfare Act or ICWA as it is known is a Federal Law enacted by Congress in 1978. This law was enacted because many Indian children were being removed from their families and their Tribe and placed with non-Indian families and as a result, the tribe lost members and the children lost their ties to their culture and their heritage. The goal of the Indian Child Welfare Act office is to keep the Indian Family intact by providing services designed to prevent the removal of Indian children from their families, tribe and their culture.We believe in a strong child abuse prevention program and continually offer appropriate services, providing healthy parenting literature and community presentations. The Drop in Center works closely with our Community Center Youth Program as well as our Cultural Center, Community Health Representative and Diabetes Programs. Since California is a 638 State in which jurisdiction over law enforcement and child abuse issues is handled by State Law Enforcement and Child and Family Agencies we do make referrals when criminal acts and/or child abuse occur.
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than in the way it treats its children.” Nelson Mandela.

• Parenting Classes and Marriage and Family Counseling.
• Community Presentation regarding Domestic Violence, Bullying, Substance Abuse as well as other factors which are destroying the fabric of Native American Families.well trained, medically guided health care workers.