Community Supports, Resources, and Partners

Advocacy & Community Support

Cultural Services & Leadership

• Daybreak Star: Serves as a cultural hub with various programming
• Mother Nation: .Offers cultural healing services and sisterhood support
• Native Action Network: Provides leadership training, youth academies, and nonprofit
  capacity building

Education & Youth Development

• Daybreak Star Education Coalition: Includes early learning programs and school
  readiness initiatives
• Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services: Supports indigenous babies and families
  from zero to three, including a full-spectrum doula program
• Indian Parent Advisory Committee (IPAC): Advises the Seattle School district on Native
  Education Title VI Indian Education Grant. Family support for students
• Native .American Youth Leadership Academy (NAYLA): Offers youth programming
  through the Western WA Native American Education Consortium
• SALT, United Indians of All Tribes Education Coalition: Native Youth Leadership
  Program that supports and promotes leadership in Native Youth
• Seattle Public Schools Native American Education: Focuses on educational advocacy,
  programming, American Indian Studies, and social-emotional learning
• Seattle Public Schools: Family Support Workers: Supports families in crisis with
  referrals and coordination of services

Employment & Vocational Services

• Chief Seattle Club: Includes a Native art job training program
• Native Action Network: Supports small businesses
• Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation Programs (TVR): Assists American Indians and Alaska
  Natives with disabilities in finding employment

Family & Social Services

• Daybreak Star: Offers home visits and a foster care program
• Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services: Supports indigenous babies and families
  from zero to three, including a full-spectrum doula program
• Local Indian Child Welfare Advisory Committee: Advises DCYF on culturally
  appropriate case plans for Indian families
• Mother Nation: Offers domestic violence services
• Seattle Indian Health Board: Provides an elders program and gender-based violence
  services

Health & Wellness

• Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s Behavioral Health Program: Utilizes a holistic approach to
  healing, offering diagnostic assessments, co-occurring services, various therapy types,
  and medication management
• Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services: Supports indigenous babies and families
  from zero to three, including a full spectrum doula program
• Mother Nation: Provides cultural healing circles as part of its services for Native
  women
• Seattle Indian Health Board: Offers comprehensive health services including medical,·
  dental, pharmacy, behavioral health, substance use treatment, and traditional health
  practices

Housing & Homelessness Prevention

• Chief Seattle Club: Provides housing assistance, food, primary health care, and legal.
  services to American Indian and Alaska Native people
• Daybreak Star: Provides rental assistance as part of its housing stability services
• Mother Nation: Offers homeless prevention and eviction prevention services
  specifically for Native women
• Seattle Indian Health Board: Includes housing assistance programs among its human
  services

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