News - Urban Indian
By Barbara Anderson, The Fresno Bee, Calif. Apr. 3--A Fresno health center serving urban American Indians is threatened with closure under President Bush's proposed budget for 2007.
By Deborah Bulkeley Deseret Morning News Since she moved to Salt Lake City from the Navajo Indian Reservation, Priscilla Harvey has relied on the Indian Walk-in Center for health care and occasional food assistance. But for Harvey, 37, the center is more than a clinic.
By ANGIE WAGNER When Jennifer Carter moved from her reservation to Pierre, S.D., a few years ago, she went from seeing Indians like her every day to barely seeing any. But the first time she visited the South Dakota Urban Indian Health clinic, she knew she had found her place.
President Bush's 2007 budget proposes to eliminate the entire $33 million budget for the nation's 34 Urban Indian Health Centers, on the grounds that the Centers' Native American patients can receive treatment at community health centers that already exist to serve the general population.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Administrator Charles G.
