The Midwifery Project - While working with traditional elders in May of 1998, a circle of Diné (Navajo) grandmothers raised concerns about the threat (and consequences) of losing the knowledge of traditional natural childbirth practices among their people.

It is a well-known (and documented) fact that Native Americans living on reservations have some of the highest rates of malnutrition, birth defects, fetal alcohol syndrome, and teenage pregnancies in the country.

Medicine Wheels - The original dream of creating a holistic mobile medical unit grew in response to a recurrent need expressed by the local and extended communities in the IPP service area. The mobile medical unit was equipped with an array of holistic medical tools, books, and homeopathic and natural first aid remedies. It was not intended to replace the services of ambulance, emergency room, hospital or physician, but rather to complement traditional medical services.

The Forestry Action Committee - was founded 10 years ago on the premise that ecosystem balance can only be created from the bottom up, and only by the people who actually occupy that space because they are the only people who actually know what is going on there.

The ground rules of the Forestry Action Committee are open membership, to be broad-based, consensus and diverse. We operate by mutual courtesy and respect. It is our job to build the middle ground in the community and to come up with actions that improve the health of the community and watershed in the Illinois Valley through a focus on forestry.