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The National Council of Urban Indian Health has recognized NAC during the 2022 Urban Indian Awards.
From the most recent NCUIH press release:
The Urban Indian Organization Innovation Award was awarded to Native American Connections for its innovative approaches in navigating the complex and changing health care environment in Indian Country. This UIO embodies the award and has provided greatly beneficial healthcare practices to their communities. For over 50 years, this organization has been improving the lives of individuals and families through Native American culturally appropriate behavioral health, affordable housing, and community development services. Recently, Native American Connections established a new primary care program by implementing an Integrated Clinic to provide comprehensive primary care visits to supplement existing behavioral health and housing services. When the pandemic hit, the staff at the clinic quickly pivoted, providing COVID vaccines and testing, all while keeping open its residential and congregate care sites (homeless housing and shelters) so that they didn't have to turn anyone away. As a trusted medical provider, Native American Connections was able to eliminate barriers to healthcare during the pandemic – something we all strive to do each day. We all look forward to watching them facilitate further safety and care for their clients, staff, and residents into the next 50 years.
Many thanks to the National Council of Urban Indian Health for their recognition at the 2022 Urban Indian Awards!
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A "chronically homeless" individual is defined to mean a homeless individual with a disability who lives either in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter or in an institutional care facility if the individual has been living in the facility for fewer than ninety (90) days and had been living in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven or in an emergency shelter immediately before entering the institutional care facility. In order to meet the ‘‘chronically homeless’’ definition, the individual also must have been living as described above continuously for at least twelve (12) months or on at least four (4) separate occasions in the last three (3) years, where the combined occasions total a length of time of at least twelve (12) months. Each period separating the occasions must include at least seven (7) nights of living in a situation other than a place not meant for human habitation, in an emergency shelter or in a safe haven.
Federal nondiscrimination laws define a person with a disability to include any (1) individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; (2) individual with a record of such impairment; or (3) individual who is regarded as having such an impairment. In general, a physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to, examples of conditions such as orthopedic, visual, speech and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), developmental disabilities, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.