Native Health Initiative

Th Native Health Initiative (NHI) was founded in 2005 with a mission to address health inequities in Indigenous communities through Loving Service. NHI's focus areas are 1) Movement as Medicine; 2) Building Youth Leaders, and 3) Indigenizing Wellness. 

What is Loving Service? Loving Service comes from our founders' desire to tap into the inherent need that we all have as humans to give a bit of ourselves to others. Loving Service is individuals providing the human-to-human element of serving others - through actions, through understanding, and through addressing needs from the lens of cooperation and not dictation. We see it as working and volunteering out of a deep desire to affect positive change using strength-based approaches to addressing systemic inequities. NHI aims to support the priority population of Indigenous and BIPOC communities, and is open to serving all communities by building the next generation of leaders, healers, and social change-agents. We strive to provide supportive communities for healthy movement and encourage community development that focuses on solutions rather than problems.