Health Awareness
The Shima Yazhi Health Promotion & Home Visiting Programs
(Shima Yazhi is a Navajo word meaning Little Mother/Auntie)
The Gathering Place through this program proivdes Health Promotion and Home Visiting programs to Navajo and low income families in McKinley and Cibola counties. All of our Home Health Advisors staff are Navajo and English speaking. They reside in the communities where they provide client/family services. All of the Health Advisors have special training in early childhood development and a wide variety of health related subjects. So that they can assist parents and children.
The program is under the direction of a Registered Professional Nurse who works in close cooperation with the Health Advisors and visits client families to assist them with any medical problems or questions they may have relating to health issues. All visits are conducted in the client/family homes at "No Cost" to them.
- Our Home Health Advisors receive family/client referrals from a varietyof sources that include: Children, Youth and Families, Battered Women's Shelters, Physicians, Public Health Nurses, School Teachers, WIC Clients, TANF (Temporary Assistance to Navajo Families), Client/Family self referrals, concerned family members and etc.
- In order to provide additional assistance to clients/families staff also works in close cooperation with other Not-For-Profit community agencies that include: School Systems Title One Programs, South West Indian Foundation of Gallup, Community Food Pantry of Gallup, Managers of the Low-Rent Apartment Complexes of Gallup/Grants, New Mexico, Catholic Charities, Legal Services Organizations, City/County Police departments and County Attorneys.
- Our staff works with families to offer support and information about:
- prenatal/post partum health
- post-partum depression
- newborn and infant care
- breast/bottle feeding
- parenting skills
- personal health/nutrition needs of children
- immunization schedules for children/adults
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- positive ways to interact with your children through play activities
- how to make your home safe inside/outside
- car seat/bicycle helmet safety for children
- child development issues
- domestic violence
- many other topics
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- We are provisional members of the Health Families America which is a program of the Prevent Child Abuse America that provides leadership and public awareness efforts for the prevention of child abuse at the grass roots level.
- Staff develops culturally appropriate health materials booklets that are used in all of our teaching programs with clients/families/communities.
- Staff conducts health fairs and workshops using bilingual oral presentations and hands on demonstrations to hundreds of child care providers throughout our community service areas.
We are the mothers and the teachers of the next generations.
In our wellness we will free ourselves to walk in beauty.
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