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2025-2026 GHWIC Registration Links

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Year 2 Project Schedule for ITCA GHWIC Subawardees (09/30/2025 – 09/29/2026)

FY2_GHWIC Project Schedule

2025-2026 registration links can be accessed below.

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (CoP) CALLS

CoP Call 1

  • Co-Presenters: TBD
  • Date: November 4, 2025
  • Time: 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time
  • Subawardee-specific meeting, ITCA Health Promotion Specialist will send Tribal Site Coordinators the registration link directly.

CoP Call 2

  • Co-Presenters: TBD
  • Date: December 2, 2025
  • Time: 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time
  • Subawardee-specific meeting, ITCA Health Promotion Specialist will send Tribal Site Coordinators the registration link directly.

CoP Call 3

  • Co-Presenters: TBD
  • Date: February 3, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time
  • Subawardee-specific meeting, ITCA Health Promotion Specialist will send Tribal Site Coordinators the registration link directly.

CoP Call 4

  • Co-Presenters: TBD
  • Date: April 7, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time
  • Subawardee-specific meeting, ITCA Health Promotion Specialist will send Tribal Site Coordinators the registration link directly.

CoP Call 5

  • Co-Presenters: TBD
  • Date: July 7, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time
  • Subawardee-specific meeting, ITCA Health Promotion Specialist will send Tribal Site Coordinators the registration link directly.

CoP Call 6

  • Co-Presenters: TBD
  • Date: August 4, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time
  • Subawardee-specific meeting, ITCA Health Promotion Specialist will send Tribal Site Coordinators the registration link directly.

 

WEBINARS

Webinar 1 

Webinar 2 

Webinar 3

Webinar 4 – “Year 2 Closeout & Year 3 Overview”

 

TRAININGS

Training 1 (in-person)

  • Dates: December 4 – 5, 2025
  • Times: 8am – 3pm Mountain Standard Time
  • Registration:

Training 2 (in-person)

  • Dates: May 12 – 13, 2026
  • Times: 8am – 3pm Mountain Standard Time
  • Registration: 

 

GHWIC WORK GROUPS

GHWIC Work Group 1 (in-person)

  • Dates: February 18 – 20, 2026
  • Times: 8am – 4pm Mountain Standard Time
  • Registration:

GHWIC Work Group 2 (in-person)

  • Dates: July 21 – 23, 2026
  • Times: 8am – 4pm Mountain Standard Time
  • Registration:

Recorded Webinars

Missed a webinar? Check them out below.

Lactation Part 1: Social & Emotional Wellness for the workplace Part 2: Social & Emotional Wellness for the workplace Perinatal Harm Reduction Training Advancing Health Equity Advancing Health Equity Advancing Health Equity Advancing Health Equity CongenitalSyphilis Syphilis101 EmpoweredBodies EmpoweredBodies NurturingConnections NurturingConnections IndigenousPeople&Epigenetics Epigenetics DataSovereignty Severe Maternal Morbidity
HistoricalTraumaProviders HistoricalTraumaProviders PostpartumCare ACES

Pathway 2 Wellness (diabetes prevention)

Funding for this was made possible (in part) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The views expressed in written materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. government.

 

Pathway 2 Wellness

  • Mini grant opportunity for additional funding plus support to implement a one-year long cohort of the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP).
  • If you’re interested in learning more about the Pathway 2 Wellness, please send an email to Glenda Tovar (Glenda.Tovar@itcaonline.com) to schedule a meeting.

 

Eligibility for Participants of the National DPP Lifestyle Change Program

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NDPP_eligibility

  • Prediabetes Risk Test (click image to enlarge)

Prediabetes Risk Test

 

About the Lifestyle Change Program

Highlights:

  • The lifestyle change program can help you build healthy new habits that last a lifetime.
  • When you join the program, you’ll learn, laugh, share stories, and try new things.
  • Most of all, you’ll lower your risk of type 2 diabetes and improve your health.

The program includes:

  • A CDC-approved curriculum
  • A lifestyle coach
  • A support group

What you’ll learn:

In the first half of the program, you’ll learn to:

  • Eat healthy without giving up all the foods you love.
  • Add physical activity to your life, even if you don’t think you have time.
  • Deal with stress.
  • Cope with challenges that can slow your progress, like choosing healthy food when eating out.
  • Get back on track if you stray from your plan. Everyone slips now and then!

In the second half of the program, you’ll enhance the skills you’ve learned so you can maintain the changes you’ve made.

Time Commitment:

The program runs for 1 year.

  • During the first 6 months, you’ll meet about once a week.
  • During the second 6 months, you’ll meet once or twice a month.

 

Source: About the Lifestyle Change Program | National Diabetes Prevention Program | CDC

 

Program Staff

Glenda Tovar, Lifestyle Coach

glenda.tovar@itcaonline.com

Gwenda Gorman, Lifestyle Coach

grenda.gorman@itcaonline.com

Juan Lopez, Lifestyle Coach

juan.lopez@itcaonline.com

Vanessa Dodge, Lifestyle Coach and Data Preparer

vanessa.dodge@itcaonline.com

 

Introduction to Cultural Safety

This course is available free on line through Frontier Nursing University.

The purpose of this course is to:

Introduce the concept of cultural safety and to explore the three main aspects of it, which include:

  • Learning about the history and impacts of colonization on Indigenous people in the U.S.
  • Being self-reflective on our identities as health providers who may care for Indigenous people
  • Centering the Indigenous patient experience and listening as the patient defines what safe care is

At the end of this Introduction to Cultural Safety course, learners will be able to:

  1. Define cultural safety
  2. Identify the three key tenets of cultural safety
  3. Explain the impacts of colonization on Indigenous people in the U.S.
  4. Describe what culturally safe vs. culturally unsafe care may look like (give examples)
  5. Discuss personal and systems change strategies for improving the cultural safety of care

https://ceu.catalog.instructure.com/courses/introduction2cultural-safety

 

Previous Recording and Survey Links

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Recent recordings and survey links (2024-2025) can be accessed below.

Webinars

Webinar 1 – “ITCA GHWIC Virtual Kickoff”

  • Presenters: Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
  • Held: December 17, 2024
  • Subawardee-specific updates, recording available on request.
  • Survey link closed

 

Webinar 2 – “Prior GHWIC Successes, MOA, and Updates”

 

Webinar 3 – “Prior GHWIC Successes from ITCA GHWIC Subawardees”

 

Webinar 4 – “Tribal Public Health Law & Policy: Foundations”

 

GHWIC Work Group 1

Work Group 1 (March 25 – 27, 2025) – Mesa, Arizona

> DAY 1: March 25, 2025

> Session 1 “Indigenous Framework Approach”

  • Presenter: Eric Hardy, ASU Labriola Center

> Session 2 “Building and Strengthening Partnerships”

  • Denisa Livingston, Diné Community Advocacy Alliance (DCAA)

 >> DAY 2: March 26, 2025

>> Session 3 “Promoting Wellness Your Way”

  • Presenter: JoAnna Garcia, Tamaya Wellness Center
  • Session 3 survey link closed

>> Session 4 “Getting Back on Track – Exercise Programming to Battle Diabetes”

  • Presenters: Amber James & Alisha Damon, Nihi Dine’é Bá Wellness Center
  • Session 4 survey link closed

>> Session 5 “Pascua Yaqui Tribe’s Approach to Diabetes Prevention”

  • Presenter: Eika Alvarez, Pascua Yaqui Tribe
  • Session 5 survey link closed

>> Session 6 “A Cultural Approach to Good Health & Wellness”

  • Presenter: Ignacia Bennett, Pascua Yaqui Tribe
  • Session 6 survey link closed

>>> DAY 3: March 27, 2025

>>> Session 7: “Tribal CHR Panel”

  • Presenter: Jesse Morgan, San Carlos CHR Program
  • Presenter: Amanda Whitesinger, Gila River Health Care CHR Program

>>> Session 8: “Live, Life, Powerfully”

  • Presenter: Waylon Pee Pahona, Founder/Creator of Healthy Active Natives

 

GHWIC Work Group 2

Work Group 2 (July 22 – 24, 2025) – Reno, Nevada

  • Survey links for Day 1 and Day 2 closed
  • Survey for Day 3 only available for in-person attendees.
  • Please contact your assigned Health Promotion Specialist for the Social Network Analysis (SNA) survey if you need another copy to submit.

 

Older recordings (2022-2024) can be found in the ribbon at the bottom of the page.

Conference Calls

Conference Call 1

  • Presenter: Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
  • Held: October 17, 2022
  • Subawardee specific updates, recording available on request

Conference Call 2

Conference Call 3

  • Presenters: ITCA GHWIC Subawardees
  • Held: May 13, 2024
  • Subawardee specific updates, recording available on request

 

 

Webinars

Webinar 1 – “KHOP Community Activities Improving Health and Wellness”

 

Webinar 2 – “Traditional Healing and Medicinal Flora in Alaska”

 

Webinar 3 – “Canva for Multimedia Creation”

 

Webinar 4 – “Social Media Campaigns & Digital Storytelling Training”

 

Trainings

Training 1 (February 6 – 7, 2024) “Building a Blueprint for Success”

  • Survey link closed

> Day 1: Strategies for Inclusive Community Involvement

>> Day 2: Mastering Project Planning and Implementation

 

Training 2 (July 9 – 10, 2024) “Grant Writing Training”

  • Presenters: Resolute Nonprofit Consulting & Toby Fox Consulting, LLC.
  • Survey links closed

> Day 1: Define purpose, craft case statement, measure impact, & develop program budget

>> Day 2: Research grants, elements for writing, funder relationships, and tips for successful proposals

 

 

Chronic Disease Prevention Working Group (CDPWG)

CDPWG Meeting 1 (December 12 – 14, 2023)

> CDPWG 1, Day 1

  • Presenters: Tribal Subawardees + Coordinating Center for GHWIC (CCG)
  • Held: Dec 12, 2023
  • Recording: Recording limited to ITCA GHWIC sub-awardees, please contact Vanessa.Dodge@itcaonline.com for permission to view.
  • Passcode: %.+1%w#y
  • Survey link closed

>> CDPWG 1, Day 2

  • Presenters: Dine Community Advocacy Alliance + Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
  • Held: Dec 13, 2023
  • Recording: Recording limited to ITCA GHWIC sub-awardees, please contact Vanessa.Dodge@itcaonline.com for permission to view.
  • Passcode: 1Lt@?TH*
  • Survey link closed

>>> CDPWG 1, Day 3

Conference Calls

Conference Call 1

  • Presenter: Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
  • Held: October 17, 2022
  • Year 4 sub-awardee specific, recording available on request

Conference Call 2

Conference Call 3

  • Presenter: Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. + Sub-awardees
  • Held: February 22, 2023
  • Year 4 sub-awardee specific, recording available on request

Conference Call 4

  • Presenter: Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
  • Held: April 17, 2023
  • Year 4 sub-awardee specific, recording available on request

Conference Call 5

  • Presenter: Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
  • Held: June 20, 2023
  • Year 4 sub-awardee specific, recording available on request

 

Webinars

 

Webinar 1 – “Breastfeeding Policy in Practice”

 

Webinar 2 - “Self-Monitoring Blood Pressure Program”

 

Webinar 3 - “Canva for Multimedia Creation”

 

Webinar 4 - “SPTHB’s GHWIC Overview”

 

Trainings

 

Training 1  (November 29 – 30, 2022)

> Day 1 – What is Team-Based Care?

 

Training 2  (June 7 – 8, 2023)

> Day 1 – “Empowering Indigenous Communities through Inclusive Nutrition Education”

 

>> Day 2 – “Empowering Indigenous Communities through Inclusive Nutrition Education” cont’d

 

Chronic Disease Prevention Working Group (CDPWG)

 

CDPWG Meeting 1  (February 14 – 16, 2023)

> Day 1 – Lightening Round Presentations

  • Held: February 14, 2023
  • Year 4 sub-awardee specific, recording available on request
  • Survey link closed

>> Day 2 – “Cultivating Indigenous-Focused Nutrition Programs: Leveraging the Power of Dieticians in Community Programs”

>>> Day 3 – “Engaging & Retaining Community & Staff Members through Health Promotion”

 

CDPWG Meeting 2 (July 18 – 20, 2023)

> Day 1 – “Nation to Nation GHWIC Tour” and “Need for Policy / Bringing it Back”

>> Day 2 – “Community Health Representatives: Key to Tribal Community-Clinical Linkages”,  “Improving Land Use Design”, and “Full Circle Indigenous Planning and Design”

>>> Day 3 – “Increasing Access and Participation in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)”

Indian Health Service – Tribal Leaders Diabetes Committee (TLDC)

https://www.ihs.gov/diabetes/about-us/tribal-leaders-diabetes-committee-tldc/

Tribal Dental Therapy Forum

On May 16, 2018, Governor Ducey signed HB 2235 into law that establishes dental therapy in Arizona and outlines requirements and permissions for dental therapists. Specific provisions in the law allow implementation of dental therapy in the Indian Health Service, Tribal, or Urban Indian Health Programs as soon as it is effective later this year in August 2018.

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Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, AZ 85264

Memorandum and Agenda

Tribal Dental Therapy Forum: Implementing the New Arizona Dental Therapy Law
AGENDA

HB2235 – Chaptered Version

Background and Overview of the Forum
ALIDA MONTIEL

Dental Therapy Law in Arizona
KRISTEN BOILINI

Dental Therapy Authorization Comparison by State
KRISTEN BOILINI

Panel – Vison for Incorporating Dental Therapy in ITU Dental Programs
DR. JOHN MOLINA

Panel – Vision for Incorporating Dental Therapists Into Your Program
DAN HUBER DMD

Keynote – Utilizing Dental Therapy to Improve Outcomes & Efficiencies/Guidance on Training Programs
DR. TODD HARTSFIELD

Panel – Dental Therapists as Part of the Dental Workforce Model
DR. TOM BORNSTEIN

Panel – Working With A DHAT
SAVANNAH BONORDEN

Steps to Achieve Medicaid Reimbursement
CHRISTOPHER VINYARD

Indian Health Service CHAP Expansion Update
DR. CHRISTOPHER HALLIDAY

National Indian Health Board 2018 Tribal Oral Health Assessment Results
BRETT WEBER

Alaska Dental Therapy Educational Program
DR. MARY WILLIARD

SIPI – Developing a Dental Therapy Training Program
VALERIE MONTOYA

Dental Therapy Rulemaking in AZ
WILL HUMBLE

Dental therapists linked to improved dental outcomes for Alaska Native communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

REPORT: TRIBAL DENTAL THERAPY FORUM – Implementing the New Arizona Dental Therapy Law (August 1-2, 2018)
KEVIN WHITNEY RUSSELL

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Flyer: “Community of Practice Schedule”

Join a community of tribal educators and health advocates that shares strengths and expertise of supporting Native youth through monthly virtual meetings.

Community of Practice_2019 Schedule

Central Arizona College Diabetes Care and Education

https://centralaz.edu/divisions-programs/dietetic-education-division/diabetes-care-and-education-certificate//a>

Indian Health Service Clinical Support Center Event Calendar

http://www.ihs.gov/CSC/index.cfm?module=ec

Indian Health Service Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention Training

http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Diabetes/index.cfm?module=Training