Urban Indian Health Institute

Indian Health Institute embraces a “community-based approach” in its current/future projects, ever-mindful of how it may best serve the 34 urban Indian health organizations. As a result, community-based approaches, evaluation activities, capacity-building efforts, and local to nationwide expansion schemes are incorporated into communications projects. As such, the Urban Indian Health Institute’s communications objectives within the urban Indian health organization network are people-centered, time-based and measurable: Ultimately, the goal is to design and disseminate communication tools for creating awareness at the highest level to promote the purpose of Urban Indian Health Institute and urban Indian health organizations. Now that the Urban Indian Health Institute Style Guide has been implemented, Urban Indian Health Institute staff are working on a broad Communciations Plan to disseminate and make information easily accessible through office communication strategies, the Internet, measurable community outreach, and other electronic and printed mediums on the transfer of project research knowledge, funding initiatives, current and past projects, research findings and on-going data gathering toward funding goal. The Urban Indian Health Institute’s communications objectives encompass a range of information management and dissemination strategies.