Our Programs
- Shima Yazhi
- Our Lay Health program, offers information and advice to women who are coping with first-time motherhood. The program offers resources and support for new baby care, parenting and health concerns, all in locations convenient to the client. The lessons give information that is aimed at the problems, questions and experiences these women encounter daily. The information is given to women in written, video and audio formats by trained Navajo women in order to foster peer support.
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- Family Learning Center
- Our family literacy program is offered in Thoreau primarily to families with young children. The intent of the program is to put an end to the intergenerational cycle of under-education and poverty prevalent in our service area. To achieve this objective the program works to:
- increase the reading skills and education of participating parents,
- improve parenting skills of adults in support of their children's learning,
- advance developmental skills and school readiness levels of their young children,
- increase the quality of parent-child interactions and
- increase the amount of time spent reading together.
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- Keepers of the Beauty Way
- A program offered to Navajo elders. It helps them learn enough English to function in today's society. The name of the program recognizes that it is elders who keep the wonder and beauty of the Navajo culture alive and are living examples for the future generations.
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- The Navajo Co-op Store
- The store is located within The Gathering Place building and carries a variety of items by local artisans, including pottery, hand-crafted dolls, rugs, clothes, sandpaintings, and southwestern jewelry. The main goal of the Co-op is to help local Navajo crafts people find broader markets for their work and develop business skills while being paid a fair price for their products.
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