Community Member
Let’s Talk About HIV
Anyone can get HIV, but some people are at higher risk. Watch this video to learn how to reduce your risk.
Let’s Talk About HIV Prevention
Did you know PrEP can cut your risk of getting HIV by 99%? To learn more check out this video.
The Stigma Surrounding HIV Needs to End
As Indigenous people, we should never feel ashamed for talking about HIV. Instead, let’s use our voices and empower ourselves and others to take control of our health.
Native VOICES
Relationships and sex are complicated. Learn from Jamie, Jess, and their friends as they navigate, love, friendship, and learn to protect themselves.
Ask Auntie – About HIV and What Happens When a Condom Breaks
Check out this video where Auntie Amanda responds to the question: “I had sex with someone who is HIV+ and the condom broke. How can I make sure I don’t get sick?” To ask Auntie Amanda a question of your own click here.
Ask Auntie – About What an HIV Test is Like
Check out this video where Auntie Amanda responds to the question: “What’s an HIV test like?” To ask Auntie Amanda a question of your own click here.
Know Your Status
Getting tested for HIV is simple. Know your status and protect yourself and those you love.
Health Provider
Native. Tested. Proud.
Native. LGBT. Proud.
Provider Trainings
For Patients
Let’s Talk About HIV
Anyone can get HIV, but some people are at higher risk. Watch this video to learn how to reduce your risk.
Let’s Talk About HIV Prevention
Did you know PrEP can cut your risk of getting HIV by 99%? To learn more check out this video.
The Stigma Surrounding HIV Needs to End
As Indigenous people, we should never feel ashamed for talking about HIV. Instead, let’s use our voices and empower ourselves and others to take control of our health.
Native VOICES
Relationships and sex are complicated. Learn from Jamie, Jess, and their friends as they navigate, love, friendship, and learn to protect themselves.
Ask Auntie – About HIV and What Happens When a Condom Breaks
Check out this video where Auntie Amanda responds to the question: “I had sex with someone who is HIV+ and the condom broke. How can I make sure I don’t get sick?” To ask Auntie Amanda a question of your own click here.
Ask Auntie – About What an HIV Test is Like
Check out this video where Auntie Amanda responds to the question: “What’s an HIV test like?” To ask Auntie Amanda a question of your own click here.
Know Your Status
Getting tested for HIV is simple. Know your status and protect yourself and those you love.
Health Educator
Native. Tested. Proud.
Native. LGBT. Proud.
Let’s Talk About HIV
Anyone can get HIV, but some people are at higher risk. Watch this video to learn how to reduce your risk.
Let’s Talk About HIV Prevention
Did you know PrEP can cut your risk of getting HIV by 99%? To learn more check out this video.
The Stigma Surrounding HIV Needs to End
As Indigenous people, we should never feel ashamed for talking about HIV. Instead, let’s use our voices and empower ourselves and others to take control of our health.
Native VOICES
Relationships and sex are complicated. Learn from Jamie, Jess, and their friends as they navigate, love, friendship, and learn to protect themselves.
Ask Auntie – About HIV and What Happens When a Condom Breaks
Check out this video where Auntie Amanda responds to the question: “I had sex with someone who is HIV+ and the condom broke. How can I make sure I don’t get sick?” To ask Auntie Amanda a question of your own click here.
Ask Auntie – About What an HIV Test is Like
Check out this video where Auntie Amanda responds to the question: “What’s an HIV test like?” To ask Auntie Amanda a question of your own click here.
Know Your Status
Getting tested for HIV is simple. Know your status and protect yourself and those you love.
Tribal Leader
Curricula
Online, 13 lesson, sexual health curriculum adapted for American Indian and Alaska Native middle school youth.
Healthy decision-making curriculum for American Indian and Alaska Native high school students.
Video-based curriculum for youth 15-24 years old designed to encourage condom use, and HIV/STI testing.
HealthyNativeYouth.org contains health promotion curricula and resources for American Indian and Alaska Native youth.
The site is designed for tribal health educators, teachers, and parents – providing the training and tools needed to access and deliver effective, age-appropriate programs.
Community Member
For Community Members
Let’s Talk About HIV
Anyone can get HIV, but some people are at higher risk. Watch this video to learn how to reduce your risk.
Let’s Talk About HIV Prevention
Did you know PrEP can cut your risk of getting HIV by 99%? To learn more check out this video.
The Stigma Surrounding HIV Needs to End
As Indigenous people, we should never feel ashamed for talking about HIV. Instead, let’s use our voices and empower ourselves and others to take control of our health.
Native VOICES
Relationships and sex are complicated. Learn from Jamie, Jess, and their friends as they navigate, love, friendship, and learn to protect themselves.
Ask Auntie – About HIV and What Happens When a Condom Breaks
Check out this video where Auntie Amanda responds to the question: “I had sex with someone who is HIV+ and the condom broke. How can I make sure I don’t get sick?” To ask Auntie Amanda a question of your own click here.
Ask Auntie – About What an HIV Test is Like
Check out this video where Auntie Amanda responds to the question: “What’s an HIV test like?” To ask Auntie Amanda a question of your own click here.
Know Your Status
Getting tested for HIV is simple. Know your status and protect yourself and those you love.
Print Materials
Posters
Educational Campaigns
Online, 13 lesson, sexual health curriculum adapted for American Indian and Alaska Native middle school youth.
Designed to promote HIV testing among Two Spirit and LGBTQ + people.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, can help prevent new cases of HIV in people who are at risk. PrEP simply involves taking a daily medicine, yet many providers know little about it and do not discuss it with their clients. This is especially true for staff working with American Indian and Alaska Native people within Indian Health Service, tribal, and urban Indian care systems.
The PrEP Navigator Training is a series of four courses designed to increase the knowledge and awareness of community health representatives, patient navigators, health educators, and others about the benefits of PrEP.
This training includes:
Modules were designed specifically for community health representatives, patient navigators, and health educators. However, physicians, registered nurses, and other clinic staff who see American Indian and Alaska Native clients may benefit as well.
Continuing medical education and continuing education units are available to those who participate in this training.
The PrEP Navigator Training for Community and Public Health Staff is made possible with resources from the Minority HIV/AIDS Fund with the production efforts of the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and training, organization, and evaluation from Cardea Services, with special thanks to American University and the 2017 CAPSTONE students assigned to the IHS National HIV/HCV Program.
Project Red Talon
Information about Project Red Talon and other HIV/STI prevention activities can be found on the Board’s Project Red Talon National Network page and on the Healthy Native Youth website.
The mission of the Enhancing Perspectives in Clinics and Communities (EPCC) Program at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB) is to build the capacity for Indigenous people, healthcare professionals, traditional knowledge holders, and policymakers to enhance the health and wellness of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people and communities.
We believe that it is the role of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island to care for our relatives and relations as well as ourselves.
We know we cannot do this alone. That is why we bring together providers, traditional knowledge holders, health advocates, clinic leadership, policymakers, and community members to:
Our priority is leaving footsteps to help guide the next generation along the path of good health and wellness.
Guided by our leadership, we contribute to clinical and community work in the following priority health issue areas:
Through Indian Country ECHO, we offer free support to IHS, Tribal, and Urban (I/T/U) clinics to optimize their policies and enhance care delivery. Through this service we also offer support to tribal leadership interested in building community capacity to prevent and treat complex medical conditions.
The EPPC Program collaborates with providers, public health professionals, and administrators to ensure that AI/AN people and communities receive high quality healthcare. Our approach to quality improvement draws on the knowledge of subject matter experts, evidence-based tools, best practices in clinical science, systems theory, Indigenous knowledge, psychology, and other fields of study.
Through a collaboration with the University of California- San Francisco, IHS offers providers practicing at I/T/U facilities on-demand clinical recommendations from experts via the Substance Use Warmline.
Through Indian Country ECHO, we offer free online ECHO clinics and trainings that provide a platform for providers practicing at I/T/U facilities to receive on-demand clinical recommendations from experts and colleagues across Indian Country.
EPCC creates evidence-based and community-tested health education campaigns and resources for AI/AN peoples and I/T/U clinicians. These include opioids, HCV, and Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ Health campaigns.
EPCC Program initiatives are funded by the Minority HIV/AIDS Fund, Indian Health Service, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Office of Minority Health.
For additional information about our program:
Contact Eric Vinson, Program Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board at evinson@npaihb.org or 503-416-3295.
For information about our HIV/AIDS resources, please contact Stephanie Craig Rushing or Jessica Leston at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board at scraig@npaihb.org or jleston@npaihb.org.