Nooksack Indian Tribe

This project strengthens Nooksack internal capacity to engage with United States Forest Service programs; expand government-to-government collaboration; and support co-stewardship and future partnership agreements that protect culturally significant ancestral lands for future generations.

COVID-19 Response

The Nooksack Indian Tribe' community possesses health disparities for diabetes disease prevalence rates and is in need of increased public health awareness of diabetes education and prevention. Many tribal members do not benefit from health education materials to understand risk factors for diabetes and how to reduce these through lifestyle choice and behavior modification. The Nooksack Seeds of Health project is to raise public health education for chronic disease prevention by building collaborative cross system campaign for health advocacy and social services by enhancing a community garden. Participants learn how to access produce and it's connectivity to individual health promotion.