Brandn Green
Tillie Stewart
Frances Kim
In 2024, the Montana Consortium for Urban Indian Health (MCUIH) was one of 14 Tribal or Native Service Organizations that received an award from the National Institutes of Health Native Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness (NCREW) Program. The award has enabled MCUIH and our project partner, JG Research & Evaluation, to explore pathways and mechanisms to enhancing the research capacity and control of each of the five Urban Indian Organizations in Montana that constitute the membership of MCUIH. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the project goals and research aims, preliminary results from qualitative and quantitative data analysis, and articulate the ways in which we have used the investment to bolster opportunities for integration of CARE Principles within the everyday practice of the UIOs. CARE Principles have been integrated to enable the collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, and ethics of how clinical data are utilized within the UIOs, how staff are supported to strengthen their use of data in service of their communities, and the integration of UIO clients into the research process. The presentation will be jointly delivered by the project PI – Dr. Brandn Green (project partner) and the study research manager, Tillie Stewart, M.S. (MCUIH).