"The Chahta Vlla Apela (Choctaw for "helping Choctaw children") program will serve six of the 11 counties which make up the Choctaw Nation. The counties to be served by Chahta Vlla Apela are Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and Pittsburg. Chahta Vlla Apela will provide home-visit based services for prenatal (expecting at time of enrollment) and/or parenting enrolled caregivers and the index child for 24 months. The index child will be ages prenatal up to one year of age at enrollment, allowing for service provision of prenatal to three years of age by the end of the 24 month service period. Project Chahta Vlla Apela utilizes the PAT curriculum as its cornerstone. In addition, the Positive Indian Parenting (PIP) program was selected to provide a strong cultural supplement that is offered to all clients during the PAT‐mandated monthly Group Connections. Project Chahta Vlla Apela implements the PIP curriculum to provide the cultural components to speak to the traditions of the Native families. This will be presented primarily in Group Connections meetings in which PIP will discuss strengths of traditional American Indian parenting ways."
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