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American Indian Cancer Linkage Registry
Information to support tribal communities, health centers and Governments.
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Food & Nutrition
Community Food Resource Assessment
Nutrition-related chronic disease (diabetes, cancer, and heart disease) impacts many and can be prevented through living a healthy lifestyle including physical activity and proper nutrition. In an ever-changing world with a complicated food supply, nutritional knowledge is more important than ever to support healthy behavior change. The ITCM has initiated this compendium of culturally appropriate materials to increase both the knowledge and the consumption of healthy traditional foods to prevent disease and to achieve improved health.
Mental & Social Emotional Health
Depression Among American Indian and Alaska Native Women in Michigan
Breastfeeding
Toolkits
Digital Stories
Resources
Breastfeeding For Moms:
Le Leche League International Breastfeeding Help: Get breastfeeding help, learn about breastfeeding and the law, find resources for health care providers or Leader resources…
LLLI Breastfeeding Help
KellyMom: Evidence-based resources for pregnancy, breastfeeding, and beyond.
Kelly Mom Parenting and Breastfeeding
For Providers:
Baby-Friendly USA: The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding were developed by a team of global experts and consist of evidence-based practices that have been shown to increase breastfeeding initiation and duration. Baby-Friendly hospitals and birthing facilities must adhere to the Ten Steps to receive, and retain, a Baby-Friendly designation.
The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The CDC Guide to Strategies to Support Breastfeeding Mothers and Babies provides guidance for public health professionals and others on how to select strategies to support breastfeeding mothers and increase breastfeeding rates. It offers the most relevant information on each type of strategy.
http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/pdf/BF-Guide-508.PDF
American Academy of Pediatrics: The AAP Policy on Breastfeeding and Use of Human Milk details the benefits of breastfeeding, its true contraindications and those that are not, the challenge of breastfeeding in the US, recommendations for breastfeeding for healthy infants, recommendations for high risk infants, and the role of pediatricians in protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding.
http://www2.aap.org/breastfeeding/policyOnBreastfeedingAndUseOfHumanMilk.html
Michigan Women, Infants, and Children: The health and nutrition program for healthy mothers and babies.
http://michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2942_4910—,00.html
Childhood is Sacred
The Cancer Prevention and Control programs address cancer disparities in tribal communities by providing technical support for primary prevention, early detection, and survivor needs .
Programs
Three Fires Comprehensive Cancer Control Program
Brave Breast Cancer Survivor Resources
Tribal Colon Cancer Project
Quick Access to Resources
Digital Stories – Cancer Prevention
What are digital stories? The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan (ITC), Anishnaabek Healing Circle…
Digital Stories – Cancer Prevention
What are digital stories? The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan (ITC), Anishnaabek Healing Circle…
Presentation and Webinar Recordings
The ITCM’s past REACH US project was a national, multilevel program that served as…
Tool Kits and Info Graphics – Cancer Prevention
What are digital stories? The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan (ITC), Anishnaabek Healing Circle…
Infant Safe Sleep
PROTECT AND NURTURE STARTS WITH SAFE SLEEP
Welcome to our Infant Safe Sleep Resource site. We have a number of resources to help parents, providers, and tribal home visitors to follow safe sleep guidelines. This website is intended to be a resource guide for our tribal community to honor our newborn babies and prevent sudden unexpected infant deaths. Explore the links above to learn more about what you can do to be sure every baby reaches their first birthday.
The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan would further like to respectfully acknowledge valuable contributions, collaboration, and support of our many partners in the development of these resources, including our fellow Indigenous wisdom-keepers, graphic artists, media specialists, Federally Recognized Tribes, partner agencies, and grant funders you see throughout this page.
Explore the resources below to learn more about what you can do to be sure every baby reaches their first birthday.
Resources
The Power of your Newborn Online Course
The Power of Your Newborn Online Course INFANT SAFE SLEEP The Power of Your Newborn...
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Additional Resources
We would like to acknowledge the work and dedication of the Michigan Public Health Institute in continuing to support our work around Infant Safe Sleep for their work in mining data, analyzing and synthesizing the data into this valuable brief.
The following four documents are information sheets referred to as, “Indigenous Infant Safe Sleep Series.” It is our intention to support Indigenous families and providers with information that promotes safe sleep for all babies while also supporting the different ways we carry and nurture our children’s development.
It should be noted, that cradleboard styles and designs vary greatly across tribes and communities. We invite anyone who would like to know more to please seek out others in your local tribe or community for more information.
Furthermore, we would like acknowledge our project partner, Wisdom-Keeper, and Indigenous Doula/Trainer, Raeanne Madison (MPH, Bois Forte Band Ojibwe Crane Clan).
Additional acknowledgement goes to Mexican Indigenous Artist living and working in Anishinaabe Territory, Celeste Contreras, for her beautiful mom and cradleboard design.
Social Media Toolkit
October is SIDS Awareness Month Social Media Toolkit
Week 1 (October 1-7)
Follow #safesleep practices by placing baby to sleep on their back to help reduce the risk of sleep-related infant death. Back to sleep for EVERY sleep. #SafeSleepMonth
#SIDSAwarenessMonth #MIMoves4SafeSleep
Week 2 (October 8-14)
A firm, flat mattress in a clutter-free crib, bassinet or pack and play will reduce your baby’s risk of sleep-related infant death. Nothing but baby for EVERY sleep. #safesleep
#CleartheCribChallenge #MIMoves4SafeSleep
Week 3 (October 15-21)
Room sharing helps reduce the risk of sleep-related infant death. Put baby in a #safesleep space (their own crib, bassinet or pack and play) next to your bed. Baby’s own sleep space for EVERY sleep.
#MIMoves4SafeSleep #SafeSleepMonth
Week 4 (October 22-28)
Breastfeeding reduces the risk of sleep-related causes of infant death. If you bring baby into your bed to #breastfeed, be sure to follow #safesleep practices when finished. Move baby to a safe sleep space EVERYTIME you breastfeed. #MIMoves4SafeSleep #SafeToSleep
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) provides the Safe to Sleep Campaign SIDS Awareness Month Toolkit. It includes: How to do #ClearTheCrib Challenge, Ready-Made Social Media Content, Planning WEbinar REcording (Will be posted)