The Healthy Start TA & Support Center (TASC) is excited to announce that we are partnering with Dr. Janelle Palacios – a Salish and Kootenai nurse midwife who was raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana –to launch the StoryWork Project. This accelerated, intensive workshop experience will explore American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) history and maternal and child health outcomes, revealing how our western-dominated culture’s values, beliefs, practices, and policies have framed BIPOC health from a deficit-based perspective.

The StoryWork Project series will include five workshops during which participants will discover how AI/AN maternal and child health has been shaped through historical policies aimed at assimilating and disenfranchising AI/AN people from land, resources, culture, religion, community, and family. Participants will also discover their respective local native history and learn how to integrate this historical knowledge and shape community anchor stories that will stir up empathy and effect change. Learners will engage in active discussions during each workshop and will complete assignments between workshops, which will guide them through the process of melding history and storytelling to tell their own stories and to reshape narratives around BIPOC health.

To learn more about the StoryWork Project and gain additional information about the StoryWork Project application process and deadline please click the video below.

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