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Spirit Lake Healthy Start
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The Spirit Lake
Healthy Start site is one of 17 sites in the Aberdeen Area
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Gloria Lefthand LSW – Coordinator
-- 701-739-6017
Robin Sposato LPN – Case manager -- 701-351-2771
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PO Box 77
St Michael, ND 58370
Phone: 701-766-1244
Fax: 701-766-1245
E-mail: healthy@stellarnet.com
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NORTHERN
PLAINS HEALTHY START MISSION STATEMENT:
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Northern Plains Healthy Start is committed to the mission of promoting
healthy families and improving birth outcomes for Native American women
by providing Targeted Case Management (TCM) Services. TCM services are a
culturally relevant program, which empowers individuals to make better
health care choices. Services are planned and coordinated through needs
assessments, case service planning, referrals and assessing community
services, advocating for women and children, and monitoring progress and
outcomes. Northern Plains Healthy Start and the TCM program is a
holistic approach respecting the importance of family, extended family,
physical, emotional, psycho-social and spiritual health and the
continued support for Indian family values. |
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PHILOSOPHY:
The TCM Model was built and guided by the following seven beliefs: |
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Infant
mortality reflects adverse medical, social and environmental
factors affecting the lives of pregnant women, infants, and
their families. |
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Direct
community involvement in the planning and implementation of the
NPHS project will encourage participation and promote its
success in decreasing infant mortality. |
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Personal,
traditional, caring relationships that support pregnant women
and new mothers enhance the health outcomes of infants, children
and families. |
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Community
involvement supplements, in culturally meaningful ways, a
woman's contact with providers of health, social and educational
services. |
| 5. |
Infant
health is enhanced when services creatively reach families in
home, local environments and through traditional ways. |
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A high
quality system of locally accessible primary care and transport
to secondary and tertiary care must be readily available to all
pregnant women and infants. |
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Infant
health has a direct relationship to the family, the extended
family and the community awareness that these children are our
next generation. |
