Native American Community Health Center Inc

“Native health's board of director finance chair reviews the submission first, then presents the 990 to the board of directors and recommends its submission during an official board of director meeting.”

“The center bylaws and policy requires disclosure of conflicts of interest. An annual letter is sent to each board member to disclose any potential issues. Each returned letter is reviewed and then resolved at an official board of director meeting.”

“Market survey of similar organizations in the county and state.”

“Market survey of similar organizations in the county and state.”

“Governing documents are available upon request in person and available online via guidestar.”

“Native american community healthcare”

“Native health provides primary medical, dental, behavioral health, wic, and wellness programs at three clinical sites in the metro-phoenix area. Native health also operates a 40-foot mobile medical unit providing well and sick visits, back to school and sports physicals, immunizations and flu shots, screenings, hiv testing, dental screenings, and other community services. Native health continues to provide drive-thru flu shot clinics at community events and in the clinics. Native health medical services are available in-person and telehealth. Dental services are available at two locations and emergency walk-in appointments are available. State of the art dental equipment was installed at native health central. Native health's behavioral health department provides services at three sites including substance use assessments, individual counseling for ages 6 and over, group counseling, case management, psychiatric services, domestic violence services, and talking circles. Native health also provides assistance to victims of domestic violence and victims of the sober living crisis. Native health's traditionalist continues to provide talking circles to elders and to the native american community. Native health's community health and wellness programs continued serving the community with many programs such as youth resiliency, indigenous wellness, traditional garden, maternal child health programs including multiple home visiting programs, and wic, to name just a few. Highlights include positive indian parenting, diabetes prevention classes and popular blue corn workshops. Native health's traditional garden which included traditional gardening techniques, plants, and harvests of over 1,500 pounds and were distributed to the community through native health's food pantries. These programs are available to urban native americans and other underserved community members. Native health continues to engage the community in a variety of ways. Native health continues to work with community partners and provide additional services to the community. Arizona department of economic security 's arizona@work provides services at native health central and mesa. Community legal services sees many clients each week and provides legal assistance at native health central. Community legal services has expanded to include tenant eviction assistance program five days per week. Veterans employment services are also available at native health central two days per week. Native health works with arizona state university interns in providing a "concierge" service for individuals needing housing assistance and other referrals through their helping hands program. There are nine food programs and two food pantries providing much needed food to the community. Over 1,500 families utilize native health's food pantry monthly in mesa. Additional community programs include indigenous young chefs in the kitchen, holiday turkey distributions, indigenous food box distribution, read it and eat, and urban native american senior food boxes, to name just a few. Read it and eat continues to be a popular monthly program for families with young children at native health central and mesa. Participants enjoy a story time, craft, and make a healthy, fun recipe. Participants take home a bag of healthy produce. Native health continues to engage the community and provides cultural classes and traditional cooking programs. Other highlighted programs include an annual traditional children's pageant judged by tribal royalty and annual open house and health fair with over 8,000 attending. Native health also has a radio show and podcast, native talk arizona, which airs on a local phoenix radio station krdp 90.7 and podcasts on itunes, google, and multiple podcast platforms with over 18,000 downloads. Native health's social media facebook is active with over 38,000 followers. Native health's hard-working and dedicated staff continue to make a difference in many ways. There are too many prog”