Program areas at Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council
Epidemiology: assist tribal communities with efforts to improve their health through education and technical assistance in the areas of hiv, hepatitis, vaccinations, and opioid use/addition. This department works with 34 tribes across the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan; and the chicago area.
Aging and disability:- assist tribal members who are 18 years of age and older, who have a physical, mental, or developmental disability, obtain benefits such as ssi, ssdi, medicaid, medicare, food share, and/or veteran benefits. - recruit tribal elders as volunteers to act as mentors or companions to youth and other elders.
Family health: assist families, who reside on or within the boundaries of there tribe, to make better and/or healthy life choices. This includes ways to quit commercial tobacco, preventing domestic violence, promoting child safety, and the overall help for the family to be self-sufficient.
Vocational rehabilitation: assist consumers/clients, who are native american with a disability and reside within the boundaries of the service area, to be self sufficient in all area of life. This can include furthering education, gaining and/or maintaining employment, and starting their own small business.
Economic development:- assist tribal members with starting a small business by helping they gain understating what is involved in the process. This can include making the business proposal and/or business plan to present to perspective investors to how to take care of the business financials.- also assist in updating the data for the comprehensive economic development strategy (ceds) report. Data is collected on current and future projects by having outreach activities based on the tribe's vision, goals, and objectives.