For generations, American Indian, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian peoples have faced an ongoing crisis of violence, human trafficking, and an epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (also known as MMIP). To bolster prevention efforts to mitigate the MMIP epidemic, the Administration for Native Americans (ANA), a program office within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), collaborated with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Interdepartmental Council on Native American Affairs (ICNAA) to develop a podcast series to raise awareness, provide prevention resources and educate listeners on MMIP.  

This podcast series includes interviews with a variety of speakers, from tribal leadership to federal partners, advocates, members of grassroots organizations and native athletes that have all joined together to raise awareness of the MMIP epidemic. This series identifies ways we can focus on prevention and the continued work of Keeping Us Whole. 

This  podcast episode features Delight Satter, MPH (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), who serves as the Senior Health Scientist within the Office of Tribal Affairs and Strategic Alliances in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support. 

This segment will continue to explore the public health approach to violence prevention and how this can impact Native communities.  The major risk and prevention factors for MMIP will be discussed and how much overlap there is with prevention factors and other forms of violence.  Unique risks or resources Native Americans will be shared and how risks accumulate over the course of a life.