sports_basketballAnnouncing our 2024 NBA Foundation Grant Award Supporting Youth Experiencing Homelessness: read about this impactful award.
Our Board of Directors remains diverse in terms of the experiences and expertise offered by each member. Members share a common vision and enthusiasm to continue growing and strengthening the services of Native American Connections. Staying true to our roots, over half the board members are Native American, and to ensure the integrity of our services for homeless men and women, the board includes an individual who experienced homelessness.
Mohave/Colorado River Indian Tribes
Arizona State University – School of Social Work
Office of American Indian Projects
Founder and CEO at HRamp Up
Diné - Navajo
Arizona State University – American Indian Studies
Pinnacle West, CFA
Yavapai - Prescott
Former Health and Human Services Director, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Diné - Navajo
Tallsalt Advisors, LLC, President
Navajo/Sioux
Colorado River Indian Tribes
Emergency Medicine Physician
Fond du Lac Band
of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.
Real Estate Attorney, Burch & Cracchiolo
General Counsel, Camelback Partners Group
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A "chronically homeless" individual is defined to mean a homeless individual with a disability who lives either in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter or in an institutional care facility if the individual has been living in the facility for fewer than ninety (90) days and had been living in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven or in an emergency shelter immediately before entering the institutional care facility. In order to meet the ‘‘chronically homeless’’ definition, the individual also must have been living as described above continuously for at least twelve (12) months or on at least four (4) separate occasions in the last three (3) years, where the combined occasions total a length of time of at least twelve (12) months. Each period separating the occasions must include at least seven (7) nights of living in a situation other than a place not meant for human habitation, in an emergency shelter or in a safe haven.
Federal nondiscrimination laws define a person with a disability to include any (1) individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; (2) individual with a record of such impairment; or (3) individual who is regarded as having such an impairment. In general, a physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to, examples of conditions such as orthopedic, visual, speech and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), developmental disabilities, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.