Native American Report

Model Programs/Best Practices

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CDC Reviews Health Disparities Programs

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) publishes highlights of programs from around the country that are helping reduce health disparities. These programs vary in focus and seek to reduce disparities based on race, ethnicity, location disability, and/or sexual orientation.

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Group Praises First Nations Institute’s Innovation

The First Nations Development Institute received a national award from the Ideas for Action program.

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Best Practices: Home Visit Programs

The Department of Health and Human Services reviewed four additional home visiting programs.

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Meal Planning a Key for SNAP Participants

While the government looks for ways to reduce costs, a new study finds that meal planning is likely to play an important role in helping SNAP recipients get the most out of their benefits.

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Best Practices: Justice, Behavioral Health

States will use assistance from SAMHSA and the MacArthur Foundation to implement innovative strategies for probation-intake diversion and improved outcomes for justice-involved youth with behavioral health disorders.

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Federal Collaboration Recognized for Innovation

The Harvard University's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation selects the federal government's Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative as one of its 2013 finalists under the Innovation in Government program.

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HHS Offers Guide to Starting a Youth Program

The National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth launches an interactive version of the "Guide to Starting a Youth Program."

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Best Practice: Tribe Promotes Native Language

The Administration for Native Americans singles out a recent grantee -- the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribe -- for using a Native Language Preservation grant from ANA to use tribal elders to teach the native Ojibwe tongue to younger people.

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Best Practices: Addressing Native Homelessness

Among winners of the Affordable Housing Finance Magazine's Reader Choice Awards is a project focusing on helping Native American homeless.

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Best of the Best Governance Projects

Harvard's Project on American Indian Economic Development opens competition for its Honoring Nations program.

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