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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (May 8, 2008)
Page 7 May 8, 2 0 0 8 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon VOCS recognized at annual conference B y L e s lie M itts Spilyay Tymoo Victims o f Crime Services received recognition as one of the top four Tribal Victims As sistance grantee programs in the nation at a recent conference. Warm Springs Victimrs of Crime Services (VOCS) staff members also attended the an nual Tribal Victims Assistance Training Conference in Albu querque where they gave a pre sentation on their successful program. Tina Aguilar, a VOCS advo cate, attended the TVA confer ence and said tribes from across the U.S. came together to dis cuss how to help tribal victims. One speaker gave a presen tation about working as an FBI representative and responding to a school shooting tragedy in Red Lake, Minn. Throughout the conference, Aguilar said, she learned about how to blend culture and tradi tion into world harmony. “It kind of made me open' up my eyes again to see how im portant we are to people,” Aguilar explained. According to VOCS director Mark Matthews, they also gave Tina Aguilar and Sammy Bruised Head attended the conference in Albuquerque. a presentation at the conference about the uniqueness of Warm Springs and how they are able to help local victims. Sammy Bruised Head also attended the conference and said, “I just basically thought it was very informative.” She said she was able to learn about other programs that in clude aspects o f tribal culture in order to help victims and said that is something they are cur rently striving toward in Warm Springs. Wilson Wewa traveled with VOCS staff to the conference as a representative for Tribal Council. “It was important for our tribal leadership to go,” Bruised Head added. A ccording to Aguilar, the conference will help her as she continues to work with VOCS. “I think all in all it was a good learning experience for me,” she Health and WeUness hosts Well Women’s Clinic said. The Warm Springs Health we can now send you to Mar O ut of 37 TVA grant recipi ents across the United States, and Wellness Center now has a dras Medical Group for a breast Warm Springs VOCS was hon Well Women’s clinic on Tuesday exam and they will refer you for a mammogram— all at no cost ored as one o f the top four and Thursday afternoons. to you. This is a nurse-run clinic and grant recipients because it was Through our Well Women) identified as a highly function is set up to do cervical cancer screening (pap smears), sexually program, we can help you acj* ing and efficient program. A ccording to M atthew s, tran sm itted disease exams, cess that system. In addition, the nurses can “Josephine Johnson’s diligent b rea st exam s, referrals for and professional work as the mammograms and immuniza help you with family planning services, but they are currently grants and contracts accountant tions. The clinic is held in Pod A in limited to Depo Provera injec for the TVA grant is one of the tions. , reasons th a t W arm Springs Community Health. Remember that this clinic is The clinic has three Regis VOCS has been recognized as a ‘top TVA Grantee Program.’ tered Nurses, Jodi Fickett, PHN, for “well women exams,” so if H e also credits B onnie Denise Swift, RN and Katie you are having problems that are Langeliers and Michelle Stacona Russell, RN that have had the causing you pain or discomfort, for their help with grant account special training to perform the you need to see your regular pro vider at the clinic. exams. ing matters. Spring at the chance to get This training was provided by Josephine Johnson serves as your W omen’s H ealth needs the grants and contracts account the Mayo Clinic. If you are not eligible to have taken care- by a woman. The for the Finance D epartm ent that works with VOCS. She said' mammograms paid for by the clinic workers hope to see you VOCS receives an above aver tribe’s Managed Care program, soon in the Well Women’s Clinic. age amount compared to other departments. Everyone in finance is as signed certain departments, she said, and she works with 11 de partments to handle their grants. VOCS receives about four grants, Johnson said. “That’s a 541-475-6140 lot because each grant has their Hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Mon-Fri own requirem ents,” she ex FREE ESTIMATES - GUARANTEED WORK plained. CUSTOM EXHAUST - MUFFLERS' - RADIATORS ENGINES - TRANSMISSIONS - HEATERS - AIR — - ■ ■ . CONDITIONS - ELECTRICAL - BRAKES Thank you fo r supporting SUSPENSION AND M ORE.. . , ; Auto Repair the businesses you see in the Spilyay Tymoo — They give back to the local community! N e w director a t co m m u n ity counseling Fax: 475-2677 880 S. Adams Dr., Madras, OR V___________ ____________2 Jolene Walters came to Warm Springs recently to take on the job of director of Community Counseling. Walters, a member of the Iowa tribe, comes from Kan sas, where the four tribes are the Iowa, the Potawatomi, the Kickapoo, and the Sac MADRAS V1 P a in t & G la s s i and Fox. Before coming to Warm Springs, Walters was the di rector o f the four tribes’ Womens Wellness Coalition. Walters has a Bachelors Degree in Psychology. She went to college after battling through a serious illness, during a time when she was working as a caller for her tribes’ Bingo hall. After graduating, she be gan working in the adult mental health field, and then went on to get her Masters Degree from the University o f Kansas, where she a First Nations Scholar. In school she focused on In dian.child welfare, and Native American social ser vices. After school she worked Your Local Paint & Glass Experts JB x p A r e s s G io ns ALLERY New community counseling director Jolene Walters. as a therapeutic case manager, and director o f her tribes’ so cial services, before returning to the field of adult mental health. She has family living in Wash ington state. She visited them over the years, and liked the region, which led her to apply for the Warm Springs Commu nity Counseling director job. ---- by Dave McMechan Judge likely to award money in Indian trust case WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) 4 After a 12-year legal fight, a federal judge said Monday he likely will award money to Indi ans whose lands have been mis managed by the government. Whether they'll ever see that money is another matter. The lawsuit claims the gov ernm ent has mismanaged bil lions o f dollars in royalties held in trust from American Indian lands dating back to 1887. U.S. District Judge James Robertson ruled in January that a full ac counting at the Interior Depart ment has become impossible. Lawyers for the Indians con tend the government must pay $58 billion, to be divided among hundreds o f thousands o f In dian trust accountholders. The government opposes that calcu lation. Robertson scheduled another round of hearings in June to resolve the case. L PAINTS Dave McMechan/Spilyay “One way or another, the re sult o f this case is a dollar fig ure,” Robertson said Monday, but he said an appeals court may decide otherwise. Further complicating m at ters, the amount o f money is so large — roughly five times the size o f Interior Department's annual budget - Congress would almost certainly have to vote to spend the money before it could be paid out. Robertson expressed skepti cism at the figure Monday, say ing it had “considerably more ze ros after the dollar sign” than he thought possible. 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