Tribal Epidemiology Center Consortium
The TECC grant is collaboration between three Tribal Epi Centers. The lead agency is the Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center (NTEC) that serves the tribes of Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The two consortium partners are the Southern Plains Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center (SPIEC) that serves the tribes of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and the California Tribal Epidemiology Collaborative (CTEC). TECC’s goal is to share the tools and experience of existing and prior projects and interventions in Indian Country to increase the cultural competence, effectiveness, data quality in all three regional areas. In 2007 TECC developed and analyzed a needs assessment survey that determined the levels of injury prevention are low in all three areas. TECC then developed an Injury Prevention Toolkit to increase the awareness. The Injury Prevention in Indian Country tool kit is the first Native-specific injury tool kit and was designed to have nationwide appeal, rather than being developed for a specific tribe or region. Tribes can tailor their kit to be geared to their own community by adapting the files and adding in local data. The Oklahoma TEC has distributed 59 toolkits within the OCA and are now in the process of evaluating the toolkit.
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