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Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation

Tribal Programs

² T.E.R.O.

² E.P.A.

² Fish & Wildlife

² Vocational Rehabilitation

² Food Distribution

² Victim Assistance

² SLT Emergency Medical Services

² Tribal Realty

² Senior Services

² L.I.H.E.A.P.

² Motor Vehicle Department

² Tax Department

² Water Resource Management

² Healthy Start

² Tribal Health

² Tribal Court

² Head Start

² Early Head Start

² Early Childhood Tracking

Spirit Lake Healthy Start
The Spirit Lake Healthy Start site is one of 17 sites in the Aberdeen Area
Gloria Lefthand LSW – Coordinator -- 701-739-6017 Robin Sposato LPN – Case manager -- 701-351-2771
PO Box 77 St Michael, ND 58370 Phone: 701-766-1244 Fax: 701-766-1245 E-mail: healthy@stellarnet.com
NORTHERN PLAINS HEALTHY START MISSION STATEMENT:
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.

PHILOSOPHY: The TCM Model was built and guided by the following seven beliefs:
1.	Infant mortality reflects adverse medical, social and environmental factors affecting the lives of pregnant women, infants, and their families.
2.	Direct community involvement in the planning and implementation of the NPHS project will encourage participation and promote its success in decreasing infant mortality.
3.	Personal, traditional, caring relationships that support pregnant women and new mothers enhance the health outcomes of infants, children and families.
4.	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.
6.	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.
7.	Infant health has a direct relationship to the family, the extended family and the community awareness that these children are our next generation.