About IHFS
Our team
Our mission
The Office of American Indian and Alaska Native Health & Family Services (IHFS) works with 8 federal recognized tribes across the state of Utah alongside the Indian Health System (I/T/U).
Our responsibilities
- Develop strategies and policy to achieve the established health priority of improving Indian Health in Utah.
- Facilitate working relationships between DHHS, tribal health programs, local health departments, other state agencies, and private provider sectors.
- Work with state, tribal and federal agencies on policy reform.
- Provide education, training and technical assistance to those tribes and DHHS divisions and programs.
- Assure the availability of DHHS programs for Indian citizens on or off the reservation.
- Active facilitation and involvement with the Utah Indian Health Advisory Board (UIHAB), and facilitate the consultation process.
The 8 Indian tribes in Utah
Confederated Tribes of the Goshute
Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah
San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe
Northwest Band of Shoshone Nation
Skull Valley Band of Goshute
Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
Navajo Nation
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