THREE STEPS TOWARD family healthcare decision-making
STEP ONE
Mapping Family Needs
Mapping Family Needs
The first step towards holistic health planning is to understand the full range of a loved one's health-related needs.
On our Needs Overview page, we have attempted to list a full range of disability and special healthcare needs. Please visit this page often to map the fullest range of your loved one's needs. Remember the needs of your family will keep changing as they grow and situations change.
The range of needs on the reservation always includes the land, Diné Bikéyah, which is the source of our families' spiritual health.
On our Needs Overview page, we have attempted to list a full range of disability and special healthcare needs. Please visit this page often to map the fullest range of your loved one's needs. Remember the needs of your family will keep changing as they grow and situations change.
The range of needs on the reservation always includes the land, Diné Bikéyah, which is the source of our families' spiritual health.
Step Two - Resolve
The second step is resolving to meet these needs. This is not easy. You will need to have confidence and leadership. Part of the foundation is trust, partnerships, and guidance from family, community, and professionals who are healthcare providers, social workers, teachers, and others. In other words, the second step involves relationships, k'é, which requires ajoobá. Loosely translated, this means kindness and compassion, but broadly it means humanity, treating each other perhaps as you would want to be treated but always with a focus on wellness of everyone.
This kind of resolve views the universal personally and makes each of us responsible for completeness well beyond ourselves. k'é and ajoobá allows us to ask the right questions in the proper manner and carry through until answers are found.
On our Family Leaders page, we discuss the clarity and resoluteness that comes with k'é and ajoobá.
The second step is resolving to meet these needs. This is not easy. You will need to have confidence and leadership. Part of the foundation is trust, partnerships, and guidance from family, community, and professionals who are healthcare providers, social workers, teachers, and others. In other words, the second step involves relationships, k'é, which requires ajoobá. Loosely translated, this means kindness and compassion, but broadly it means humanity, treating each other perhaps as you would want to be treated but always with a focus on wellness of everyone.
This kind of resolve views the universal personally and makes each of us responsible for completeness well beyond ourselves. k'é and ajoobá allows us to ask the right questions in the proper manner and carry through until answers are found.
On our Family Leaders page, we discuss the clarity and resoluteness that comes with k'é and ajoobá.
Step Three - Navigating Services
The third step is the most difficult one of all, that of navigating and coordinating services and benefits.
Since these benefits and services operate in separate governmental systems, navigating them is not intuitive, since they are subject to different laws and policies, each with different administrative systems and also unique eligibility requirements.
Because navigation is not intuitive, it is difficult to feel fully empowered. However, don't lose sight of Steps One and Two, which will help you ask the right questions and begin holistic planning.
On our Resources pages, you will find navigation keys and options. For Arizona, please visit Resources - Arizona; for New Mexico please visit Resources - New Mexico; for Utah please visit Resources - Utah. For a range of communities, schools, and facilities on the Navajo Nation, please visit Resources - Navajo Nation. A page of resources provided by tribal government and non-profits will be coming soon.
Thank you for your patience as this website grows. Ahé hee.
The third step is the most difficult one of all, that of navigating and coordinating services and benefits.
Since these benefits and services operate in separate governmental systems, navigating them is not intuitive, since they are subject to different laws and policies, each with different administrative systems and also unique eligibility requirements.
Because navigation is not intuitive, it is difficult to feel fully empowered. However, don't lose sight of Steps One and Two, which will help you ask the right questions and begin holistic planning.
On our Resources pages, you will find navigation keys and options. For Arizona, please visit Resources - Arizona; for New Mexico please visit Resources - New Mexico; for Utah please visit Resources - Utah. For a range of communities, schools, and facilities on the Navajo Nation, please visit Resources - Navajo Nation. A page of resources provided by tribal government and non-profits will be coming soon.
Thank you for your patience as this website grows. Ahé hee.
