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4-H and Healthy Lifestyles on the Fort Peck Reservation
Fort Peck Reservation Extension Program aims to address the needs for sustainment of traditional Assiniboine and Sioux values and practices. It also works to teach much needed life skills via 4-H programs to Fort Peck Reservation Youth and families. This is needed to create healthy communities, schools and families across the Fort Peck Reservation where
poverty, suicide and school drop-out rates continue to plague Native American families. The program strives to address the need for positive leadership across the reservation.
Back to Basics Gardening Nutrition and Education
In FY2005, Fort Belknap Indian Health Service Unit’s Ten-Leading Causes of Direct Outpatient care are all diet related diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension and cancer. In FY2006 Montana Vital Statistics Report, published by the Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services indicates cancer, heart disease and diabetes as the top leading causes of death in the State. Again, these are all nutrition/diet-related diseases, which indicate the great need to address the types of foods we eat, the preparation and the amount of physical exercise we are initiating.
Advancing Horticultural Programming
The Michigan Federally-recognized Tribes Extension Project (FRTEP) seeks to support the health, well-being, financial
independence and cultural preservation of four Michigan Indian tribes through the creation of a full-time Tribal Extension Educator position that will assist the tribes in advancing their horticultural programming. Michigan State University (MSU)
Junior Master Gardening Internship Program
One of the San Carlos Extension's 4-H youth development programs is a Junior Master Gardening Internship Program called Building Bridges. Last school year 2007-08, the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension and the San Carlos Diabetes Prevention Program introduced a wonderful program designed to educate Apache youth nutritional and gardening concepts. We used a curriculum from a nationally recognized 4-H program, Junior Master Gardener Health and Nutrition from the Garden, to teach these concepts.
