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Established: 1969 to provide a central focal point in the Indian health field in California for planning, advocacy, funding, training, technical assistance, coordination, fund-raising, education, development, and for the purpose of promoting unity and formulating common policy on Indian health care issues.

Membership: Eleven tribal health programs providing primary health care services to approximately 63,000 American Indian people in rural California. Member clinics:

Karuk Tribal Health Program
Pit River Health Services, Inc.
Shingle Springs Tribal Health Program
Toiyabe Indian Health Project, Inc.
United Indian Health Services, Inc.
Feather River Tribal Health, Inc.
Mariposa, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne Health Board, Inc.
Redding Rancheria Indian Health, Inc.
Sonoma County Indian Health Project, Inc.
Tule River Indian Health Center
Warner Mountain Indian Health Project, Inc.

Service Area Includes the following 21 Counties:
Amador ~ Butte ~ Calaveras ~ Del Norte ~ El Dorado ~ Humboldt (excluding Hoopa Reservation) ~ Inyo ~ Lassen ~ Madera ~ Mariposa ~ Mendocino (Manchester-Pt. Arena Rancheria only) ~ Modoc ~ Mono ~ Siskiyou ~ Shasta ~ Sonoma ~ Sutter ~ Tuolumne ~ Trinity ~ Tulare ~ Yuba

Member Tribes Participating in the CRIHB-IHS Health Services Contract (21):
Buena Vista Rancheria / Chicken Ranch Rancheria / Ione Band of Miwok / Jackson Rancheria / Tuolumne Rancheria / Shingle Springs Rancheria / Cloverdale Rancheria / Dry Creek Rancheria / Lytton Rancheria / Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria / Stewart's Point Rancheria / Big Lagoon Rancheria / Blue Lake Rancheria / Elk Valley Rancheria / Resighini Rancheria / Rohnerville Rancheria / Smith River Rancheria / Table Bluff Reservation / Trinidad Rancheria / Yurok Tribe of California / Fort Bidwell Indian Reservation

Member Tribes Participating in the CRIHB Area Office Functions Contract (29):
Buena Vista—Chicken Ranch Rancheria—Ione Band of Miwok—Jackson Rancheria—Tuolumne Rancheria—Shingle Springs Rancheria—Cloverdale Rancheria—Dry Creek Rancheria—Lytton Rancheria—Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria—Stewart’s Point Rancheria—Benton Reservation—Big Pine Reservation—Bishop Reservation—Bridgeport Reservation—Fort Independence Reservation—Lone Pine Reservation—TimBiSha Shoshone Tribe—Tule River Reservation—Big Lagoon Rancheria—Blue Lake Rancheria—Elk Valley Rancheria—Resighini Rancheria—Rohnerville Rancheria—Smith River Rancheria—Table Bluff Reservation—Trinidad Rancheria—Yurok Tribe—Fort Bidwell Indian Reservation

Non-Contracting Member Tribes (11):
Berry Creek Rancheria—Enterprise Rancheria—Mooretown Rancheria—Karuk Tribe—Pit River Tribe—Redding Rancheria

Administrative Offices:
4400 Auburn Blvd., 2nd Floor
Sacramento, CA 95841
(916)929-9761 FAX (916)929-7246
Contact: Marilyn Pollard- Marilyn.Pollard@crihb.net

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Results of CRIHB/Tribal Government Consultation Committee Legislative Priority Setting for 2007
On October 18-21, 2007, the California Rural Indian Health Board’s Thirty-Eight Annual Board of Directors
and Tribal Government Consultation Committee convened at the Jackson Rancheria Casino and Hotel in
Jackson, California. A primary focus of this meeting included identifying federal and state legislative priorities for the CRIHB policy staff and other organizational stakeholders to work on in the upcoming budget-making year. The priorities are listed below. For more information on this legislative project contact James Crouch, MPH, Executive Director or Mark LeBeau, MS, Health Policy Analyst, at 916-929-9761.

State Priorities
1 Increasing State Indian Health Program Budget
2 Securing Mental Health Services Funding for Tribal Health Programs
3 Enhancing the Medi-Cal Program to Benefit Indian Beneficiaries
4 Enhancing Indian Healthy Families Outreach and Enrollment Processes
5 Increasing Substance Abuse Funding (CalWORKs) for Tribal Health Programs
6 Ensuring the Continuance of the Tribal TANF Program
7 Marine Life Protection Act
8 State Health Reform
9 Family PACT
Federal Priorities
1 Reauthorizing Indian Health Care Improvement Act
2 Increasing Indian Health Service Appropriations, Including Funds for CA IHS Area
3 Enhancing the Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP Program to Benefit Indian Beneficiaries
4 Securing Funds for Home Healthcare for Elders
5 Increasing Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program Funds
6 Having Level of Need Funding Appropriation Formula Used in Distributing Funds
7 Methamphetamine Initiative
8 Establishing a CA Indian Youth Obesity/Diabetes Prevention Pilot Project (Earmark)
9 Establishing a Youth Regional Treatment Center in Northern/Central CA
10 Securing Funds for Small Facilities Construction and Loan Repayment
11 Ensuring compliance with Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
12 Enhancing IHS Facilities Construction Policy
13 Enhancing IHS Consultation Policy
14 Cancer Initiative
15 Increasing Taxes on Top 10% of U.S. Population
16 Special Diabetes re-authorization
17 Foster Care
18 Violence against Women
19 EpiCenter

Policy Issues
1 Protecting the Environment to Enhance the Health and Wellbeing of Indian People
2 Protecting Indian Sacred Sites
3 Supporting the Role of Traditional Indian Healthcare
4 Increasing Water Quality/Quantity on Tribal Lands
5 Protecting Tribal Sovereignty
6 Expanding Contract Health Service Delivery Area
7 Supporting Land Acquisition for Tribes/Rancherias
8 Securing Information Technology Funds
9 Securing Adequate Tribal Homeland Security Funds
10 Supporting Tribal Embassy of National Congress of American Indians

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Health Policy

California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc.
Organizational Profile

For more information please contact Mark Lebeau, Health Policy Analyst at (916) 929-9761 ext. 1030 or mark.lebeau@crihb.net.

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What's New

Health Policy

California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc.Organizational Profile

For more information please contact Mark Lebeau, Health Policy Analyst at (916) 929-9761 ext. 1030 or mark.lebeau@crihb.net.

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California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc.
Organizational Profile