Diné Bá Álchíní Yił Ádaaní serves as the Family Voices Affiliate Organization (FVAO) and the Family-to-Family Health Information Center (F2FHIC) for the Shiprock, Fort Defiance and Eastern Navajo agencies. As a federally recognized health information hub, we are a peer-led organization of families who have navigated the unique healthcare infrastructure of the Navajo Nation for generations.
Our team possesses the specialized lived experience required to manage limited healthcare resources and bridge the gap created by diminishing traditional wellness knowledge. Supporting families of children and youth with extra healthcare needs (CYSHCN) in a rural tribal setting requires a specific mastery of cross-jurisdictional health systems.
Because navigating these complex rural healthcare landscapes presents significant logistical challenges, our primary focus is “Áłchíní hózhóójí bá Nahat’á” — Planning for Our Kids in a Blessing Manner. We operate as a program of Indian Country Grassroots Support, dedicated to ensuring health parity through geographic accessibility and language-congruent support. Our services are available to all families residing within our service area regardless of race, color, or national origin.
Our team possesses the specialized lived experience required to manage limited healthcare resources and bridge the gap created by diminishing traditional wellness knowledge. Supporting families of children and youth with extra healthcare needs (CYSHCN) in a rural tribal setting requires a specific mastery of cross-jurisdictional health systems.
Because navigating these complex rural healthcare landscapes presents significant logistical challenges, our primary focus is “Áłchíní hózhóójí bá Nahat’á” — Planning for Our Kids in a Blessing Manner. We operate as a program of Indian Country Grassroots Support, dedicated to ensuring health parity through geographic accessibility and language-congruent support. Our services are available to all families residing within our service area regardless of race, color, or national origin.
Áłchíní hózhóójí bá Nahat'á
Families and healthcare providers require specialized navigation because the healthcare infrastructure within the Shiprock, Fort Defiance and Eastern Navajo Service Units is uniquely complex, involving the intersection of state, federal, and tribal jurisdictional systems. Our rural geography requires specialized, community-informed problem-solving that addresses the specific historical and regional needs of the Navajo Nation.
Our goal is to provide sustainable, holistic information and support to enable the self-advocacy and navigation of families of children and youth with extra healthcare needs (CYSHCN), ensuring the long-term wellness of youth and families within our service area.
The Navajo Nation spans portions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Each state maintains distinct resource frameworks, which must be integrated with tribal and community-based services. Facilitating an integrated understanding of these resources is fundamental to Nahat’á (Planning).
Nahat’á is a core tenet of Diné traditional knowledge. Diné k’ehgo nitsáhákees involves an understanding of holistic processes to achieve harmony and balance (hózhó). This traditional planning model is an essential cultural observance that includes all stakeholders in developing collaborative health solutions.
In accordance with Diné familial traditions maintained for generations, roles such as mothers, fathers, and grandparents carry specific cultural meanings essential to child protection and wellness. When we fulfill these traditional matrilineal roles, we share the specialized knowledge necessary for the health of our children. This family structure is the foundation of k'é (kinship) and ajoobá (kindness), which are vital social determinants of health for our youth.
Effective wellness planning for children with extra healthcare needs requires cultural and linguistic competency from service professionals and the direct involvement of the children themselves. Áłchíní hózhóójí bá Nahat'á reinforces a historically-grounded foundation for wellness that has supported tribal families for generations, ensuring that modern healthcare delivery respects the cultural continuity of the Navajo people.
Our goal is to provide sustainable, holistic information and support to enable the self-advocacy and navigation of families of children and youth with extra healthcare needs (CYSHCN), ensuring the long-term wellness of youth and families within our service area.
The Navajo Nation spans portions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Each state maintains distinct resource frameworks, which must be integrated with tribal and community-based services. Facilitating an integrated understanding of these resources is fundamental to Nahat’á (Planning).
Nahat’á is a core tenet of Diné traditional knowledge. Diné k’ehgo nitsáhákees involves an understanding of holistic processes to achieve harmony and balance (hózhó). This traditional planning model is an essential cultural observance that includes all stakeholders in developing collaborative health solutions.
In accordance with Diné familial traditions maintained for generations, roles such as mothers, fathers, and grandparents carry specific cultural meanings essential to child protection and wellness. When we fulfill these traditional matrilineal roles, we share the specialized knowledge necessary for the health of our children. This family structure is the foundation of k'é (kinship) and ajoobá (kindness), which are vital social determinants of health for our youth.
Effective wellness planning for children with extra healthcare needs requires cultural and linguistic competency from service professionals and the direct involvement of the children themselves. Áłchíní hózhóójí bá Nahat'á reinforces a historically-grounded foundation for wellness that has supported tribal families for generations, ensuring that modern healthcare delivery respects the cultural continuity of the Navajo people.
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This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) as part of an award that first totaled $96,750 in 2018; and which presently totals $89,140 in 2023. We are a small program, with other program costs further financed from state agencies and non-governmental sources. The contents of this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views or non-endorsement by HRSA, DHHS or the US Government. For more information please visit HRSA.gov.