Juneau, AK
SEARHC
AIAN Culturally Specific Community Baby Shower and Health Resource Fai
$45K Finalists

Host culturally specific Community Baby Showers and Health Resource Fairs in SE Alaska to improve AIAN maternal and fetal health outcomes and create systemic change toward health equity through pre/post-natal education, develop support networks and connections with local partnerships, offer on-site health services and referrals, and establish trust between expectant and future mothers with SEARHC's OB&GYN team. Build relationships with the tribal community based on SEARHC's holistic approach combining modern medicine and traditional cultural practices.

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Haines, AK
Klawock, AK
Wrangell, AK

Let’s build community trust and improve people’s health and well-being.

The NIH Build UP Trust Challenge will award as many as ten Finalists up to $45,000 each and the opportunity to win one of four $200,000 prizes for promising strategies that increase research participation and the adoption of medical care by building trust and improving engagement with historically underserved communities. Submissions have closed.
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