Urban Indian Health Institute

Urban American Indian community centers in the United States can look to their neighbors to the north for an example of how to create a strong national voice, says Dana Klar, J.D., founding and interim director of the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

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As director of the NATIVE Project and NATIVE Health Clinic of Spokane and a 28 year member of the DSHS Local Indian Child Welfare Advisory Committee, she is in a unique position to to observe the disposition of Indian child welfare cases.

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Aboriginal child and youth health issues will headline the 2nd International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health. With the theme of “Solutions, Not Problems,” the conference will take place April 20-22, 2007 in Montreal, Que. at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Presented by the Canadian Paediatric Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and in cooperation with the Indian Health Service, the cross-border meeting will highlight solutions to prevalent health problems among children and youth in First Nations, Inuit, Métis, American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Issues to be discussed include injury and violence prevention, environmental and traditional health, nutrition, obesity, diabetes, and substance abuse.

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