Welcome

The American Indian Healthy Eating Project has been working since October 2008 on developing planning and policy strategies to improve access to healthy, affordable foods within American Indian communities in North Carolina.

• Learn more about why improving access to healthy, affordable foods within American Indian communities is important
• Get to know our project partners, participating tribes, and research team
• Explore the tools and technical assistance we developed to facilitate community change within each of the participating tribes, through the kit and web-based version of Tools for Healthy Tribes
• Understand how a community newsletter complements our efforts to stimulate community change within each of the participating tribal communities

We have been blessed with the opportunity to build partnerships with the NC Commission of Indian Affairs, seven tribes in North Carolina, and with all the tribal leaders, liaisons, and advisors who have given so much of their time and thoughts to facilitate united approaches to advance American Indian health within their tribes, across the state, and throughout Indian country.  This project is just one fruitful example of the talent, assets, and potential living within North Carolina American Indian communities.  Native people have the power and wisdom to live long, healthy lives!

Support for this project was provided by Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and a National Institutes of Health (NIH) University of North Carolina Interdisciplinary Obesity Training Grant (T 32 MH75854-03).  The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the RWJF or NIH.

Please visit the website regularly!  It’s under-construction.

Call 312-502-1060 or email sheilafly9@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to share resources!

carpe diem,

Sheila Fleischhacker, PhD, JD

Co-Principal Investigator

 

Requested Citation:

The American Indian Healthy Eating Project in partnership with seven American Indian tribes in North Carolina.  Tools for Healthy Tribes (online version).  Chapel Hill, NC; 2011. Available at:  http://americanindianhealthyeating.unc.edu