March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, and through our ThinkFirst Navajo program, we have continued teaching Navajo youth how to prevent catastrophic brain and spinal cord injuries. More than 2.5 million children and adults sustain traumatic brain injuries in the United States each year, and the rate is even higher among young Native Americans. Many of these injuries are preventable. In New Mexico, where Eve's Fund for Native American Health Initiatives is incorporated and people from more … [Read more...] about Observing Brain Injury Awareness Month in March
Free to You… Amazon donates to Eve’s Fund… Navajo kids smile!
Do you know that if you shop at Amazon Smile, they will donate .05% of your purchase to Eve's Fund? You shop and the Navajo kids we serve smile as a result. How does it work? Next time you plan to shop on Amazon, sign into Amazon Smile instead. Then pick Eve's Fund (Farmington, NM) as your charity to support. Bookmark the link http://smile.amazon.com/ch/20-3008753 and support us every time you shop. Why is there a separate Amazon Smile URL? The AmazonSmile program offers … [Read more...] about Free to You… Amazon donates to Eve’s Fund… Navajo kids smile!
Health Educator/Program Administrator Position Available
Part-Time Health Educator/Administrator Position Available for Award Winning Injury Prevention Program on Navajo Nation Eve’s Fund for Native American Health Initiatives, a 10 year-old community-based nonprofit organization that promotes literacy, injury prevention and education for Native Youth, is seeking a health educator/administrator for our award-winning ThinkFirst Navajo injury prevention program. Position involves organizing, coordinating and giving injury prevention … [Read more...] about Health Educator/Program Administrator Position Available
We have hope for the New Year!
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." ~ Christopher Reeve, actor "Prevention is the only cure" ~ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation "Books for children of poverty represent hope." ~ Guadalupe Garcia McCall, author Thanks to the generous support of individual donors and volunteers — as well as grants from the New Mexico Governor's Commission, Center for Development and Disability at the UNM School of Medicine, and Mary Pope Obsorne's Classroom Adventures — Eve's … [Read more...] about We have hope for the New Year!
ThinkFirst Navajo speakers share personal injury stories on YouTube
Our ThinkFirst Navajo Voices for Injury Prevention (VIPs) have each created videos -- now available on the Eve's Fund YouTube Channel -- that reveal their personal injury stories: how they became paralyzed and the challenges they face on a daily basis. These courageous Navajos, all injured in events that could have been prevented, discuss how hard it is living with paralysis on the Navajo Nation because of poverty and inadequate housing, as well as a lack of access to buildings, … [Read more...] about ThinkFirst Navajo speakers share personal injury stories on YouTube
