Over the past three decades the Penobscot Indian Nation has established various programs for the provision of health and social services to the members of the Penobscot Tribal community. These programs are funded through a Public Law (P.L. 93-638) contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and a Self Governance Compact with the Indian Health Service (IHS). Also, the Penobscot Indian Nation receives funding from various state and local agencies.
The Penobscot Nation Health Department (PNHD) was selected to receive $20,000.00 from the Association of American Indian Physicians for the Healthy Indian Country Initiative (HICI). The PNHD was selected based on current prevention activities it sponsors and coordinates. Prevention is one of the priorities established by the IHS, and the PNHD Logic Models are based on prevention. The Logic Models required the establishment of a departmental Prevention Committee. The primary mission of the Prevention Committee is to develop and implement various prevention activities targeting youth in the community.
Through the HICI grant PNHD worked with other Tribal departments and programs such as the Summer Youth Employment Program, the Indian Island School, local high schools and the Penobscot Nation Boys & Girls Club to develop activities for the adolescent population that will provide skills and education in the areas of substance abuse prevention, leadership, self esteem building and other chronic disease prevention. The activities included the following:
The development of the logic models was a Tribal wide activity mandated by the Tribal Chief and Council. The purpose of the logic models was to provide the Tribal Council with priorities for each department and to assist the Tribal Council in determining funding priorities. All the logic models were approved by the Tribal Chief and Council.
For more information about logic models, visit the University of Wisconsin-Extension (Cooperative Extension/Program Development & Evaluation) website at www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande. You can also download examples of logic models in PDF format below: