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)
Contact Information
- Kelley Le Beaux – Director (Disease Prevention Programs)
