LGBTQA Resources and Support

Link to Printable Brochure Here

Parenting Workshops - 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Thursdays

At this link you will find a flyer for the newest set of Parenting Workshops. These classes will be offered weekly on Thursdays at North Country Health Clinic. The class will be 1:30-3:00 in the afternoon. Please feel free to print and distribute as necessary.

Thank you so much for your assistance in getting the word out about these classes!

Krista Minks-Baker

Office Manager

Program Coordinator

CPLC Parenting Arizona-Flagstaff

928-773-9133<tel:928-773-9133>-office

928-587-6133<tel:928-587-6133>-mobile

Position Profile for United Way CEO Position

See link here

Postion open: Community Outreach Program Specialist

http://www.nahealth.com/Careers/Current_Positions

Community Outreach Program Specialist

Requisition Number:

14093

Category:

Professional

Facility:

Flagstaff Medical Center

Department:

Fit Kids of Arizona

Schedule:

Full Time

Shift:

Day Shift

Job Details:

Bachelor's Degree
Arizona Driver License- required
DES Fingerprint Clearance Card - required
1 year of experience required
Community Outreach Program Specialist - Fit Kids of Arizona
POSITION SUMMARY:
Under the direction of the Director and Manager of Fit Kids, assists in the marketing, community outreach and Public Relations program/activities/events, may be asked to assist with grant writing tasks/projects, and publication of data or stories as it relates to the Fit Kids programs at Flagstaff Medical Center and Verde Valley Medical Center and surrounding service areas. Assignments include but are not limited to: planning of events/conferences/meetings, health fair participation and promotion, screenings, community lectures, public relations events; marketing and promotion of services to referring physicians and outlying communities, grant writing assistance, data collection and tracking, publications and event/program assistance. Assists the other members of the Fit Kids department in the development of marketing material, advertisements and promotional items. Manages multiple projects/events, multiple daily tasks, deadlines and schedules. Establishes and maintains excellent communications and relations with local and rural referring physicians and their office staff, IHS facilities and other agencies that interact with system hospitals.
In addition the liaison will also be responsible for the collaboration and organization of the School Health and Wellness initiative in Northern Arizona schools. The individual will engage students, families and staff to participate in the numerous health opportunities while building relationships in order to ensure program success and two-way communication. Assignments/Responsibilities include but are not limited to: recruit school staff to be health leaders at each school on an annual basis, assist with bi-annual student data collection, present to community members, school boards, principals, staff, etc., work with schools in district to improve wellness policies, ensure program compliance, and provide direction and ideas for future health efforts within project, coordinates with manager and director of Fit Kids to ensure proper budget adherence by the schools and allocation recommendations for future programming, conduct trainings with new health leaders at each school, compose written research, grant efforts for supplemental programming, press releases, articles and any other tasks assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
-Bachelor's Degree - required.
-Bilingual (Spanish) - preferred.
Experience:
-One (1) year of marketing or office environment experience - required.
-Previous experience working directly with physicians or medical community - preferred.
-Previous experience in communications, public relations, or social media related position and/or job responsibilities - preferred.
-Experience in Health, Education, or Community Organizing fields helpful.
Certificate/Licensure:
-Current AZ Driver's License with no moving violations for 39 months - required.
-Current vehicle registration and insurance - required.
-Fingerprint Clearance Card - required.
Skills - required:
-Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously with accuracy and timeliness.
-Recognizes varied customer base and demonstrates excellent customer service skills.
-Excellent organizational skills to produce accurate and high quality work.
-Proficient in word processing and email/scheduling/calendar.
-Efficient and accurate proofreader and speller.
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
-Independently uses sound judgment, global thinking and problem solving skills in daily execution of duties.
-Works effectively as a team member and independently.

-Demonstrates excellent interpersonal relationship skills.

Opportunities with the Urban American Indian Parenting Project

Opportunities with the Urban American Indian Parenting Project

Facilitators

Facilitators are needed to conduct workshops that will be held throughout 2013 at different locations in the Flagstaff area. Facilitators will be compensated $300-$500 per cycle (10 workshops). Workshops are usually held in the evenings from 6pm-8pm during weekdays.  The job description of a facilitator is to facilitate the workshop curriculum from start to finish for each assigned cycle and ensure all forms collected during the workshop are received by the Project Site Coordinator. We ask that the facilitators be Native American and be comfortable facilitating a group of approximately 20 parents.

Recruiters

Flagstaff recruiters are needed to recruit parent participation in workshops. The recruiters will be asked to attend events, make presentations to other organizations and possibly recruit through their own personal networks. Recruiters receive $10 per eligible enrolled parent.

Childcare Provider

At each workshop, the Urban American Indian Parenting Project makes an effort to provide child care for parents for free. We are looking for certified childcare providers that will be needed at each workshop. Workshops are usually held in the evenings from 6pm-8pm during weekdays. Childcare providers will be compensated $10 per hour.

For more information of these opportunities contact Taloa Hood, Project Specialist, Phoenix Indian Center at (602) 264-6768 ext 2302 or thood@phxindcenter.org.

Elected Officials

I have compiled a list of our elected officials. (see link below) I hope that it will help you in our/your work this year. If you have any corrections/modifications, please let me know. My best to each of you. Julianne


Link to Document

Urban American Indian Parenting (UAIP) Project

Dear Parents or Caretakers,

The Phoenix Indian Center is seeking parents in the Flagstaff area to participate in its Urban American Indian Parenting (UAIP) Project. Your participation will help us provide a needed service to the Urban American Indian community. Eligible parents will receive up to $150.00 for participating.

Workshops for the UAIP Project will be available starting Tuesday, January 22, 2013 on Tuesday evenings from 6 pm-8 pm at Kinsey Elementary School, 1061 S. Lonetree Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001.

The Phoenix Indian Center is currently working with the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center at Arizona State University to conduct the Urban American Indian Parenting Project (funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institute of Health) involving a newly developed culturally grounded parenting intervention curriculum. Over the last two years the Phoenix Indian Center has worked with urban Native American parents to develop the curriculum.

The objectives for the UAIP project are to (1) to create and test a culturally grounded parenting intervention for urban American Indian families, to help prevent children from engaging in substance abuse use and risky sexual behaviors, (2) to compare the culturally adapted parenting intervention with a control condition in a randomized control trial to determine the effectiveness of the intervention, and (3) build institutional capacity for sustaining the development and delivery of this project and similarly designed culturally grounded prevention interventions.

Parents will be randomly chosen to attend one of the two curriculums:

Parenting in 2 Worlds Workshops

Introduction

Building Parenting Communities

Identifying Traditions, Norms and Values

Knowing Your Child’s World

Communication with Your Child

Giving and Receiving Support

Guiding Your Child’s Behavior Effectively Part 1

Guiding Your Child’s Behavior Effectively Part 2

Healthy Families in 2 Worlds Workshops

Introduction to the Program

Vision and Eye Care

Oral Health

Emergency Response Team

CPR Training

First Aid

Kid’s Moods

Safe Dating

Media Influence

Survey and Celebration

Putting It All Together

Talking to Teens about Risky Behaviors

Eligibility Requirements are (1) must be a parent or primary caretaker of a Native American/Alaska Native youth age 10-17 (2) reside off the reservation and (3) the child must attend an urban school.

If you would like to enroll in the Urban American Indian Parenting Project please complete the enrollment form and email to Vanessa Chicharello, Flagstaff Project Recruiter at vchicharello@gmail.com or call (520) 730-9569 or toll free (855) 330-1538.

Thank you for your consideration in participating in the Urban American Indian Parenting Project. If you have any questions feel free to call me at (602) 264-6768 ext 2302 or toll free (855) 330-1538

Sincerely,

Taloa Hood

Project Specialist

Phoenix Indian Center

Urban American Indian Parenting Project

Link to Enrollment Form

2013 Cancer Conference

Greetings!

Happy New Year! The Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention Outreach team would like to announce our 2nd Annual Cancer Conference: Breaking Barriers in Cancer Among Native Americans. Please save the date in your calendar for Thursday, March 14th, 2013. We will be hosting our conference at the High Country Conference Center in Flagstaff, Arizona. Please let me know if you have any questions. Have a fantastic and safe weekend! Take care


Marissa Adams
NACP Outreach Program Coordinator
Office of the Vice President for Research
The Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention

P.O. Box 5659
Flagstaff. AZ 86011
928.523.8588
928.523.7317 Fax
Marissa.Adams@nau.edu

Diabetes Education Classes

Hello Flagstaff,

I am selling raffle tickets for an iPad Mini for $10 each. Only 200 tickets will be sold. If tickets are sold out, the winner will be drawn at this year’s production of “The Vagina Monologues” which is scheduled for February 9 – see attached flyer for show details and how to get your tickets. Otherwise, winner will be drawn when all tickets are sold. Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

Also attached is a flyer for an event on V-Day (February 14) called “One Billion Rising” which seeks to bring awareness to the issue of violence against women all over the world. Join us at NAU on Valentine’s Day to get involved!

Please contact me if you’d like to purchase a raffle ticket and support this Outreach program at North Country. (NACASA provides medical forensic examinations to victims of rape in the Flagstaff, Show Low, Holbrook and Springerville clinics.)

Thank you,

Kara

Kara Ransom-Wright

Northern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault

Program Coordinator

North Country HealthCare

2920 N. 4th Street

Flagstaff, AZ 86004

928-213-6112; 928-233-5118 FAX

928-240-0085 cell

928-773-7670 24-hour dispatch

kransom-wright@northcountryhealthcare.org

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Nicolette Sachs, LCSW
The Stress Reduction Clinic @ Mountain Waves Healing Arts Center
2323 E. Greenlaw Lane, Suite 10
Flagstaff, AZ 86004
(928) 526-1961x4
Breathinginbreathingout.com

 

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a course designed to help students
cultivate their own mindfulness practice.

Mindfulness is a way of waking up to your life, of learning to relate directly to whatever
is happening in your life. It is a way of doing something for yourself that only you can
do—consciously working with your own stress, pain, illness, and the challenges of daily
life.

 

By enrolling in MBSR, you will have the opportunity to learn the following:
• Practical methods for focusing your attention
• Coping skills to improve your ability to handle stressful situations
• To increase awareness of the interconnectedness of mind and body in health and
illness
• Gentle body-focused conditioning exercises to strengthen and release muscle
tension
• To cultivate greater balance in your life

 

The class schedule consists of 8 weekly classes of 2 hours each and one 5 hour day of
mindfulness. There are over 20 total hours of instruction.

This course is modeled on MBSR developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center. This program has been taught for over 30 years and
research indicates efficacy in a range of areas of both physical and mental distress.

Nicolette Sachs, course instructor, has taught Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction to
over 150 students during the past 10 years. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker,
Nicolette has sustained a private practice in Flagstaff for 17 years.

There will be a free orientation session held on Tuesday, January 15th, 2013, from
9:30-11:00am. The full course begins on Tuesday, January 22nd, 9:30-11:30am. It goes
for 8 consecutive weeks. The Day of Mindfulness is scheduled for Saturday, March 2nd.
The cost for the 8 weekly classes, including the day of mindfulness and course materials,
is $250.00.

The course location is: Academy of the Martial Way Flagstaff, 2708 N. 4th Street,
Suite E-1 (located in the Knoles Village Square).

Please contact Nicolette at (928) 526-1961 x4 or nssachs@gmail.com with any
questions, to sign up for the orientation, and to reserve your place in this class.

Report: Smoking Takes 5 Hours Off Life Expectancy Per Day

FYI. An interesting article from U.S. News & World report on smoking and life expectancy, http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/12/17/report-smoking-takes-5-hours-off-life-expectancy-per-day.

Christine Cheng
Outreach and Marketing Director
Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
UCSF Department of Medicine, Box 1211
3333 California Street, Suite 430
San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone: 415-476-0216 Fax: 415-502-5739
email: ccheng@medicine.ucsf.edu<mailto:ccheng@medicine.ucsf.edu>
web: http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/