Our mission is to promote wellness and healthy lifestyles in the 

American Indian communities of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis & St. Paul) through youth development and leadership.

Healthy Nations Program Goals:

Belief

(identity recognition and affirmation)

Provide healthy opportunities for Native youth to recognize and reaffirm their identity

Belonging

(knowing self-worth)

Provide healthy opportunities for native youth to learn and know that they belong to the Creator

Becoming

(capacity building/empowerment)

Provide healthy opportunities for Native youth to use their leadership skills

Healthy Options 

The premise by which we place all our efforts:

• All youth possess characteristics of leadership

• All youth deserve healthy opportunities to recognize, build and use their leadership potential

• A leader is an individual who strives to become spiritually, emotionally, physically, and mentally balanced

• Leadership is recognizing your strengths and therefore recognizing your personal power

• Leadership is not having power over something or someone

• Healthy Nations believes in a process which prepares Native youth to become leaders and to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood through a coordinated progressive series of activities and experiences which help Native youth become balanced individuals

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