Description of the Organization

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Description of the Organization

• NAIM is a faith-based ecumenical cooperative
  effort
• Attempt to improve our community by
• Alleviating 3 core issues
• Spiritual depletion
• Socio-economic conditions
• Education deficiencies
• Combat issues by
• Providing Facilities
• Faith-workers (volunteer professional)
• Funding

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Structure Board of Directors
RDNACM United Methodist
Burnt Swamp Baptist Association
Addiction Representative
At Large 2 ea.
NAIM Healing Lodge
Assembly of God
Church of God
Holiness Methodist
Robeson County Health Department
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Introduction

• To advance and promote health and well-being
  through a holistic approach, recognizing the
  strength of partnerships between faith
  organizations and the health system, be it
  medical care or public health
• Through Faith-based organizations, faith groups
  and communities receive health education,
  counseling, and a variety of support services

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Introduction (CONT.)
Faith communities nurture and provide social
support for the well-being of those that share
their faith, and they reach out to those in need
within their neighborhoods and throughout the
world. Inequities that create disparity in the
determinants of health for individuals, families,
and populations capture the attention of faith
organizations and public health. CDCP,GA.1999
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In the Beginning churches must

• Do new things in new ways
• Calling and Accountability encouraging the
  leadership to expand out of traditional norms
• Leadership will cultivate webs of transformative
  relationships
• Transformative Relationships for the emergence of
  a new vision Where problems now have a face
  and a name
• Vision of healthier communities through faith and
  health partnerships

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Southeastern NC American Indian HIV/AIDS
Initiative
Robeson Health Care Corporation Director,
Jennifer McLamb Native American Interfaith
Ministries P.O. Box 1695 Pembroke, N. C.
28372 1-910-522-0900 Maim_hl2_at_bellsouth.net Coord
inator, Millard Lowry, Jr.
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SPNS Project Partners

• Robeson Health Care Corporation
• Native American Interfaith Ministries, Inc.
• Duke University Partners in Caring
• University of North Carolina at Pembroke
• Lumbee Tribal Council
• NC Commission on Indian Affairs
• Borderbelt AIDS Resource Team
• Robeson County Health Department
• NC Dept. of Health and Human Services HIV/AIDS
  Prevention Branch
• Tri-County Community Health Center

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SPNS Project Purpose

• To develop and establish culturally appropriate
  services to empower American Indians residing in,
  or adjacent to, Robeson County who have, or are
  at high risk of having, HIV/AIDS and
  co-morbidities such as other STDs, substance
  abuse and mental illness

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SPNS Target Population

• American Indians in and around Robeson County who
  are at risk of transmitting or acquiring HIV due
  to their high-risk activities and/or lifestyle
• Associates of the American Indian population

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SPNS Project Objectives

• To increase the amount of culturally appropriate
  HIV/AIDS services provided by the Healing Lodge
• To improve the infrastructure of HIV/AIDS
  services in the community to provide culturally
  competent care and services by establishing a
  countywide HIV/AIDS Task Force

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SPNS Objectives (cont.)

• Increase the efficiency of access to care
• Increase the number of testing sites
• Increase the amount of HIV testing in places
  where American Indians access services
• Decrease the time it takes an individual to be
  diagnosed positive and enrolled in HIV/AIDS
  services
• Conduct in depth evaluation of activities and
  outcomes of initiative

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Key SPNS Objectives

• To empower the faith community to provide
  culturally competent HIV education and support
  services by
• Developing Transformative relationships
• Increasing the number of ministers and lay
  leaders who receive culturally competent,
  accurate information and support
• Developing mentoring networks
• Offering prevention programs for faith
  communities
• Linking faith communities with individuals
  needing support (Food,Transportation, Housing)

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Community Empowerment

• 5 year American Indian empowerment grant
• Years 1 and 2, the Healing Lodge will be hub
  organization
• Years 1 and 2, Robeson Health Care Corporation
  will mentor Healing Lodge
• Years 3-5 Healing Lodge will own grant