Health Promotion and Prevention Department

The Health Promotion Programs (HPP) provide funding, training, technical assistance and/or resources to Great Plains Area tribes and tribal entities to reduce the prevalence of obesity, commercial tobacco use, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke in their communities.

Disease Prevention Programs (DPP) invoke action, initiatives, and activities to reduce risk factors and strengthen protective factors.

What We Do

The Health Promotion Department’s focus is health education/promotion and disease prevention. The department’s goals are to reduce health disparities through outreach, education, prevention, and capacity-building.

The department emphasizes health promotion through its various programs and aims to eliminate health disparities through outreach, education, prevention, detection, and capacity building.

Programs

Health Promotion Programs

Diabetes Prevention Project - CAPPA Health Contract
Great Plains Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country

Disease Prevention Programs

Great Plans Breast & Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program / Honor Every Woman
IHS Cancer Support Leadership Training
National Native Network
Better Choices, Better Health
Living Well With Serious Illness
Approaches to COVID-19 Testing Project (ACT)
Stand Up 2 Cancer (SU2C) Community Collaboration to Advance Racial/Ethnic Equity in Colorectal Cancer Screening (CARES)