Unkitawa

Unkitawa, in partnership with Sisters in Common, worked to provide quality innovative, culturally relevant mental health services to Urban Native American, Alaska Native, and Indigenous-identifying people who reside within greater King County and surrounding areas.

With a long history of providing mental health to American Indian populations, Unkitawa struggled with mental health treatment protocols primarily designed for non-indigenous populations. These protocols often violate or disregard their peoples’ original ways of thinking and behaving.  

They developed an open program to all Tribes and Nations, with no cost for mental health and programs geared around food sovereignty and preservation of traditional practices. Their innovations work focused overall on healing the mind, body, and spirit, through mental health, food, and traditional medicines. They provide community members with access to Native American healing practices with an Indigenous licensed mental health therapist who works to provide traditional healing through a cultural lens of intergenerational trauma.

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