The overall management of the Health Services Office is the responsibility of the I.T.C. Health Services Director, who provides guidance and direction to a number of preventive health care personnel in their efforts to deliver effective and efficient programming. Those personnel provide technical assistance, consultation and some direct preventive health care services to all of the Tribal communities including urban communities, in the State of Michigan. The Health Services Division's preventive health care components consist of Environmental Health, Health Education, Mental Health, Behavioral Health, Nursing, Nutrition, and Epidemiology. Attention is paid to providing technical assistance for Tribal health and human services systems development, maintenance and expansion. Within the past few years, at the request of the Tribes, the Health Services Office has been instrumental in developing quality assurance and health systems evaluation programming at the Tribal level. An additional component consists of Contract Health Services, Patient Registration and Privacy Act Consultation. Health Board training is also done by via requests from the Tribes.
Last, but not least, the Health Services Division functions as a health program resource developer, often times seeking out state, federal, university and other philanthropic organization resources which may be used by the Tribes for health and human services systems development and service delivery. The broad spectrum of health promotion and disease prevention programming is also addressed by the professional staff who work within the I.T.C. Health Services Office. Staff provide coordination for chronic and communicable disease prevention, with an emphasis on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and HIV/AIDS. Maternal and child health programming, with an emphasis on youth and adolescents, is also provided. This Health Services Office provides an opportunity for Civil Service, Commissioned Corp. Officer and direct hire professionals to engage in a wide variety of preventive health care programming within a large and diverse service area.