Social Services

Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)

The CCDF Program provides resources to tribal grantees, offers subsidized Day Care that enable families to work or pursue education and training so that they can better support their families while at the same time promoting the learning and development of their children.

CCDF Coordinator

Molly Monzon

Tribal SHIP and Tobacco

The Tribal SHIP and Tribal Tobacco Grants Program strives to provide opportunities for tribal communities to carry out culturally driven healthy eating, active living and commercial tobacco prevention strategies, while increasing access to and educating about the healing effects of traditional tobacco. The work is integrated in traditional activities, teachings and ceremonies.

Through Tribal SHIP and Tribal Tobacco efforts, innovative and culturally appropriate strategies are being used to advance health in tribal nations.

Tribal SHIP, communities are:

• Reclaiming food sovereignty, cultural traditions and native food systems
• Building local food economies
• Increasing local agricultural and food production
• Gathering medicinal plants and wild foods

SHIP Coordinator

Josh Rodriguez

Tribal Tobacco

Tribal tobacco efforts address the high prevalence of commercial tobacco use in tribal communities by building community-based tobacco control programs.

Community initiatives include:

• Promoting, providing and collaborating in commercial tobacco treatment and cessation programming
• Decreasing exposure to commercial tobacco smoke where community members live, work and play by advancing smoke-free policies
• Engaging communities with knowledge of cultural practices around traditional tobacco and harms of commercial tobacco

Tribal SHIP and Tobacco Informational & Resource Links:

• Reclaiming Sacred Tobacco - https://www.tpt.org/reclaiming-sacred-tobacco/ Reclaiming Sacred Tobacco depicts Minnesota’s American Indian Communities traditional practices in an effort to promote a healthier lifestyle.
• Keep it Sacred - https://keepitsacred.itcmi.org/ Is a national network of Tribes, tribal organizations and health programs working to decrease commercial tobacco use and cancer health disparities among American Indians and Alaska Natives across the U.S. We offer technical assistance, culturally relevant resources, and a place to share up-to-date information and lessons learned, as part of a community of tribal and tribal-serving public health programs.
• American Indian Cancer Foundation - https://americanindiancancer.org/ The American Indian Cancer Foundation (AICAF) is a national non-profit organization that was established to address the tremendous cancer inequities faced by Native communities. AICAF is Native-governed; its board members and employees have an array of experience serving the health needs of our people.
  • Powwow for Hope - https://powwowforhope.org/ Powwow for Hope is a nationwide fundraiser for American Indian Cancer Foundation that leads to a community event held in Minneapolis, MN, where thousands come together to honor loved ones who have faced or are currently facing cancer by creating a space for healing.
    Proceeds benefit the Foundation’s mission to eliminate cancer burdens on Native people through improved access to prevention, early detection, treatment, and survivor support.