Indigenous Centric Housing Initiative: Housing for Indigenous Peoples in all life’s seasons

Intervention on multiple issues Indigenous Peoples and Communities are facing as a result of Active Genocide Dynamics resulting in grave social and economic impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Communities such as MMIP/MMIR Crisis, Suicide, Substance Abuse, Mental Health, Illness, and Wellness, Safety and Prevention, due to effects of Acute, Complex, Inter, and Multigenerational Trauma, Medical and Physical Health Disparities from being a marginalized population and from Data Genocide, Whitewashing and Erasure of Indigeneity associated with Former Termination Policies of the US Government. Intervention includes buildout for Indigenous Centric Supportive Housing that links to Indigenous Centric culturally competent care, case management, and impacts all populations at risk in Indigenous Communities, is scalable and replicable across Tribal Communities and includes social, economic, and Tribal development plans in areas related to Professional Development, Intern/extern/mentorship and youth development and opens opportunities for indigenous people and communities. 

My Indigenous Centric Housing Initiative includes Climate justice, social and economic justice, medical and physical health equity, accessibility, and provides resources to indigenous people and communities as a Tribal Crisis Response Plan to MMIP/MMIR, Truth, Healing, and Reconciliations, Environmental and Climate Justice, and addresses all risk areas indigenous people and communities face: MMIP/MMIR, Homelessness, Medical Access, Culturally Competent Care and interventions for: Suicide, Mental Health, Trauma, Physical, Medical, and Mental Health Care, Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples and Community, and would be indigenous led and operated. 

The Indigenous Centric Housing Initiative intervention is designed to impact all Indigenous People and Communities “At Risk” with harm reduction strategies intended to facilitate direct interventions in the areas of Medical Health, Physical Wellbeing, Mental Health and Mental Wellbeing, Vulnerable populations get community supports: Elders, Disabled, Adults in Recovery, Children in Foster Care, and cultivates Professional Development in Youth and Adults via mentorship and internships in the Medical and Mental Health and Search and Rescue fields. 

As a Native American woman, 2 Spirit, Matriarch with experience in both Indian Country and the Colonial System, as a Survivor of MMIP, forced Removal of my Children, and Forced Sterilization, I have been homeless and denied assistance as a domestic abuse survivor, as a homeless woman, from an At Risk community and my experiences with every system including Mental Health, Housing, DV services, and the Injustice System, paired with my educational background and focus in Indigenous Peoples and Communities, and experience as a Tribal Administrator, Member, and Policy and Legislation Analyst affords me unique insight into the problems Indigenous Peoples and Communities face today. 

My Indigenous Centric Housing Initiative Proposal has been pitched to both the State Indian Commission and the NJ State Commission of Children's and Families. 

Bhavana Consultation is new, it is Indigenous led and operated, and I am currently working to expand the business to provide Culturally Tailored Mental Health Services to Indigenous people and communities in Lenapehoking. The Indigenous Centric Housing Initiative aims to provide Housing and Support Services to Indigenous people in Lenapehoking. The program seeks to serve Indigenous Elders & Disabled, adults by 3 genders impacted by Substance Abuse and Trauma through Genderbased Recovery Care, Maternal and Child, Foster Children, and poor and low income Indigenous Peoples to the Americas, by definition. MIT can assist with Technology, Networking, Visibility, in bringing Solutions to Indigenous Peoples and Communities, Partnering, Guidance, and linkage to Resources that could help this project move forward. 

Lifelong Intertribal Relationships with local Tribes, Tribal Members, and work experience for local tribes and my own Tribal relatives, and the projects I network with are all very well known in the community. 

I think the Indigenous Centric Housing Initiative has the elements necessary to bring Truth, Healing, and Reconciliations through Landback, and to be infrastructure for Indigenous Centric Resources to maintain Tribal Sovereignty, and to work in tandem with real Native Communities in Real time for Real Change. 

If you research what is known about Indigenous peoples, and the rates of violence against Indigenous Peoples and Communities, you can quickly determine intervention is needed to stop MMIP/MMIR, to bring Truth, Healing, and Reconciliations, to increase accessibility to physical health care, mental health care, and to increase protective factors in Indigenous Communities, through evidenced based practices via implementation- however, indigenous peoples and communities want services from Indigenous Peoples, due to trust issues, cultural differences, and hundreds of years of oppression and discrimination. The Indigenous Centric Housing Initiative creates infrastructure for accessing affordable housing through current established funds and creates new eligibility for funding opportunities as produced via the public domains. It is scalable and replicable in all indigenous communities, by indigenous tribes, or nonprofits. It creates an infrastructure to encompass social, economic, and environmental Justice. 

The Indigenous Centric Housing Initiative creates an infrastructure for equity, accessibility, and does not violate rights to exist, seeks to intervene on Homelessness, untreated Mental Health, Medical and Physical Health disparities, increases protector factors through Safety and Prevention planning, and links to and increases Indigenous Led and Operated Resources. 

The Indigenous Centric Housing Initiative seeks to employ the latest technologies, to access Tribal Broadband, to Cultivate Indigenous Plant and Wildlife, to cultivate plant medicines, to  be an infrastructure to house the latest technologies in Healthcare, Mental Health Care, Education, link to and partner with Colleges and Universities, Hospitals, Conservation, via  Environmental and Climate Justice, by providing an infrastructure to assist local community buildouts. 

Bhavana Consultation was founded as an LLC, in Gloucester City, NJ in 2020. Bhavana is currently in the process of listing as a Mental Health Provider. However, the plan for Indigenous Centric Housing Initiative aims to be a comprehensive plan to build Tribal Capacity in all areas determined At Risk for Indigenous People and communities. 

Building a plan for Indigenous Centric infrastructure that can be effectively implemented by any indigenous person, people, or group to initiate intervention to all areas of risk for indigenous people and communities and hoping it get used all over the world.

So far I have my self, Danielle Cranmer,  and my clinical supervisor Dr. Cynthia Chapman Dorsey, LCSW, RN, PhD, Community Supporter: Tyrone Ellis, Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Tribal Nation, Tammy WalkingStick Riley who is the Indigenous UN Delegate to the Philadelphia Mayors Office, and Founder of Red Feather’s Legacy, and have been networking informally with Indigenous Professionals with Capacity to grant write or provide direct Services. I think I need to build a Board. 

This intervention I have been working on in conjunction with collecting Research that illustrates why this type of Indigenous Infrastructure is important to indigenous people and communities everywhere. It has been realized in context to confronting many of the issues facing indigenous people and communities over the years of working in the colonial system and with indigenous peoples. I began writing directly on the project about a year ago and working to expand my business to provide these types of services for the last 6 months. 

Team members can be indigenous peoples and allies to indigenous people and communities.

Indigenous Centric Housing uses a housing first approach to create accessibility to Physical/Medical, Mental Health, Community Support Services in an Indigenous led and operated Infrastructure. It seeks current local, county, state, and federal resources for Buildout, and includes writing for additional funding opportunities for Indigenous Peoples and Communities to bring redress to identified Crises in Indigenous Communities. 

The goal is to accept local, county, state, and Federal contracts by identified Tribal Community and to qualify for Arts, Culture, Education, and Field specific grants and contracts for human services programs for Indigenous people and communities.