Ti-chee  Native  AIDS  Service  Agency

MISSION STATEMENT

1210 Indian Street   PO Box 4124   Bellingham  WA  98227   P 360-734-2476 F 360-733-2075

As a member of your tribe, it is your responsibility to get an HIV test and know your status. 

It is what we do for our PEOPLE!!!

 

Ti-chee Native AIDS Prevention Project or T.N.A.P.P. is a non-profit 501 © (3) Charitable Faith-based Service Agency primarily designed for Native American people who are living with HIV/AIDS, their partners, and families.  However, it is also designed to be inclusive of Native American Communities in general through our prevention and outreach directives.  Through the use of pro-active prevention materials, community outreach, peer education,  peer counseling tactics, and support services, we will assist clients with basic needs, and the empowerment of Native Americans at risk and Native Americans living with HIV/AIDS by improving their lives and health status and strengthen their prevention education

 

In order to fulfill our mission statement we will take the following steps:

 

· Provide a safe non-judgmental environment

· Provide educational HIV/AIDS, STD, & Substance Use material and facilitation

· Educate HIV positive clients to attain the skills needed to manage their spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental well-being.

· Help identify and reduce barriers to spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental well-being.

· Help replace HIV positive clients’ feelings of isolation with feelings of participation.

· Encourage clients to take roles of leadership with their own well-being.

 

CORE VALUES

 

We have the right to live free from discrimination.  All Native Americans living with HIV/AIDS must be free from discrimination based on race/culture, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious belief, socio-economic status, disability, addiction/recovery status.

 

· We have the right to live free from abuse, violence or the threat of violence.

· We have the responsibility to treat those in our lives with respect and dignity.

· We have the responsibility to ensure that our communities offer safe spaces, free from violence and intimidation.

· We have the right to form and maintain our own beliefs to develop our spiritual, emotional, physical and mental strengths.

 

A Ti-chee Doctrine Adopted August 10, 2007 _ Amended October 23, 2008

 

 

Hy’shqe siam!