Advisory Council, Consultants & Partners
As is written in the values and principles of the Center, we draw upon the diverse and unique cultures, ceremonies, customs, and teachings of American Indians and Alaska Natives for strength, wisdom, and guidance. In order to serve in a national capacity, we rely on the commitment of members from across the country to advise on curriculum development, cultural competency, and needs assessment.
Mental Health Advisors
Jacque Gray, PhD, Choctaw & Cherokee Nation
Matt Ignacio, MSSW, Tohono O'odham
James Ward, MA, Choctaw
Ray Daw, MA, Navajo
John Jewett, MA, Oglala Lakota Nation
Dennis Norman, Ed D, ABPP, Descendant of the Southern Cheyenne Nation
Roger Dale Walker, MD, Cherokee Nation
Jeffrey N. Kushner, MHRA
Richard Livingston, MD, Cherokee Nation
Advisory Council
Clyde McCoy, PhD, Eastern Cherokee
Dan Dickerson, DO, MPH, Inupiaq
Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD, Caddo Nation
Dennis Norman, Ed D, ABPP, Descendant of the Southern Cheyenne Nation
Lorrie Miner, JD
Ray Daw, MA, Navajo
Richard Bird, MMS, CCDCIII, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
Joel Chisholm, MD, Bay Mills Indian Community, a band of the Ojibway tribe
Lakota R. M. Holman, M Ed, Rosebud Sioux tribe
Vanessa Simonds, ScD, Crow Nation, Montana
Raymond Slick, MSW, Meskwaki Tribal Nation
Perry R. Ahsogeak, Barrow Village of Alaska
Ed Parsells, BA, Cheyenne River Sioux Nation
Matt Ignacio, MSSW, Tohono O'odham
Lena Gachupin, MSW, Zia and Jemez Pueblo, and Sun Clan of New Mexico
Jeffrey N. Kushner, MHRA
Roger Dale Walker, MD, Cherokee Nation
Melvina McCabe, MD, Member of the Navajo Nation
Robert Begay, Member of the Navajo Nation
Dana Diehl, MS, Yupik and Athabascan
Jacque Gray, PhD, Choctaw & Cherokee Nation
Connie O'Marra, LCSW, Citizen Potawatomi
John Jewett, MA, Oglala Lakota Nation
James Ward, MA, Choctaw
Richard Livingston, MD, Cherokee Nation
Ex-Officio Member(s)
Karen Hearok, LCSW, Member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Juanita M. Mendoza, MS, Member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona
Rose Weakhee, PhD, Navajo Tribal Member
Consultants
Pamela Baston, MPA, MCAP, CPP
Janie Ferguson, BA, Cup'g Eskimo
Sunny Goggles, MA, Northern Arapaho Nation
Michaela Grey, MPH, Navajo Nation
Maurine Lilleskov, PhD, CHES
Kristina Pacheco, BA, Pueblo of Laguna
Robert Rohret, MPH
Tom Vaughn, PhD
Star Wheeler, MS, Seneca Nation
Kate Winters, MA
Ken Winters, PhD
Janice Yazzie, MA, Navajo Nation
Janet Zwick, BS
Partners
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Behavioral Health Aid Program (BHA) and the Community Health AID (CNA) program
Northwest Portland Behavioral Health Board
Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center
Comprehensive Drug Research Center, University of Miami
The Comprehensive Drug Research Center (CDRC) is a comprehensive interdisciplinary research center which has been named a Center of Excellence by the University of Miami. From the outset great attention has been paid to the facilitation of research through supportive core functions. Core functions of the CDRC include the following: administration and leadership; project interactions; access to research populations; community epidemiology/geographic information systems; outcomes research; quantitative data management and information systems; qualitative field studies; health evaluation; laboratory research; health economics; training/education; proven research technology; and technology transfer through publication and dissemination. Since 1994, substance abuse and related research such as HIV/AIDS have accounted for more than $200 million funding. For more than three decades, Clyde B. McCoy, Ph.D., has directed the Comprehensive Drug Research Center and health services research at the Miller School – and mentored a generation of researchers along the way. Dr. McCoy has spent more than 30 years preparing new drug abuse researchers and scientists to tackle pressing drug-related issues, such as HIV/AIDS, and helping communities around the world. McCoy joined the medical school faculty in 1974, launching the interdisciplinary University-wide Comprehensive Drug Research Center, where world-renowned researchers convene to study the many implications of drug use. The center is nationally recognized as one of only two federally funded centers for community-based health services research for chronic drug users.
National Association of Drug Court Professionals
Wellness Courts
Healing to Wellness Courts
Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP)
National Indian Health (IHS) Center of Excellence in Tele-health