Midwest Tribal ECHO
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) is a model of knowledge-sharing between healthcare providers to increase access to promising practices. At NACC, we facilitate the Midwest Tribal ECHO on opioid use disorder education and treatment. While our original intent was to share about our experience opening a suboxone clinic in partnership with Red Lake Nation, we now offer a wide range of topics related to Indigenous health and harm reduction.
Midwest Tribal ECHO hosts virtual education sessions by subject matter experts, which fosters face-to-face mentorship across geographic distances. We hope that the right knowledge gets to the right people and places at the right time, thus closing the gap on health disparities impacting on-reservation and urban-dwelling Native Americans in the Midwest and across the United States.
Our extensive areas of service include, but are not limited to:
Indigenous Health
Opioid Use Disorder
Medication-Assisted Treatment
Harm Reduction
Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
Traditional Medicines
Holistic Health
Street Outreach
Technical assistance
Through the ECHO project, we offer technical assistance (TA) related to our experience as a family practice clinic delivering nonjudgmental, evidence-based care related to substance use and substance use disorders.
Technical assistance offerings
MAT
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) within primary care through both an office-based and daily dosing program.
Harm Reduction Services
Includes both in-clinic and community outreach-based syringe exchange, naloxone distribution, and harm reduction education.
Harm Reduction Approaches
Harm reduction approaches to hepatitis C, HIV, and syphilis/STI testing and treatment.
FAQ’s
Who is this for?
Professionals and volunteers working with and serving Native American communities who are affected by OUD and the opioid overdose epidemic.
Our YouTube channel offers recordings of all past sessions.
This ECHO is part of the Indian Country ECHO Network, which is a collective of predominantly Indigenous organizations that provide ECHO services across the globe.
When and where can I join?
Midwest Tribal ECHO sessions are held from 12PM – 1PM CST on the first and third Wednesday of each month via Zoom. Register for iECHO here to receive the session link and all other ECHO information.
Meet Our Team
KARI RABIE, MD
Kari has been the Medical Officer at the Native American Community Clinic since 2011. Dr. Rabie is a board-certified Family Practice and Addiction Medicine physician who graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1998 and completed her residency training at the Hennepin County Family Practice Residency Program in 2001. She has been prescribing buprenorphine and leading a multidisciplinary medication-assisted treatment team at NACC to provide medications for opioid use disorder. Dr. Rabie is an adjunct instructor at University of Minnesota Medical School since 2008. She is on the board of Southside Harm Reduction Services.
NIKKI GIARDINA, RN, PHN
Nikki is a public health nurse in Minneapolis, MN. She was introduced to harm reduction 20 years ago as a volunteer at a storefront syringe exchange and has been dedicated to the philosophy ever since. Nikki is currently the infectious disease RN care coordinator at Native American Community Clinic. She has worked as a harm reduction consultant and is on the board of Southside Harm Reduction Services.
LINDSAY KING COONEY
Lindsay is the Harm Reduction Senior Coordinator at the Native American Community Clinic and specializes in bringing community and tribal engagement to the Midwest Tribal ECHO project. She is a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe in Nett Lake, MN.
