The Ituhku path.
Ituhku is the culmination of lived experience and direct service, working hand in hand as Indigenous relatives, learning the dynamics of the challenges and adversities facing our communities from day to day and cooperatively strategizing culturally rooted solutions.
Having witnessed time and again, the shortcomings of western approaches to wellness for Indigenous peoples, we recognize the need for readily accessible, culturally integrated approaches. Our identity as Indigenous peoples is definitive of our experience and is central to our well being. knowing this, Ituhku serves as a contemporary conduit for curative community culture, created for Indigenous relatives, by Indigenous relatives.
Many healing modalities focus solely on individuals and their corresponding behaviors, while failing to address the environments within which they live. Family, community and culture are all unique to each of us, requiring the vehicles facilitating our healing and growth, be adaptable and considerate of our total life dynamic. Ituhku serves as a virtual community that supports relationships which reiterate fundamental values of identity, kinship, belonging and reciprocity as tools of resilience, reclamation and prosperity.
Our Mission
1. To provide low-barrier, culturally competent mental health resources for urban and rural Indigenous relatives, establishing a consistent virtual network of support that transcends geographic and economic obstacles.
2. To use cultural knowledge and traditional practices as primary clinical tools to establish and steward healthy, thriving communities where relatives are empowered to reclaim their roles as leaders, relatives, and mentors.
Our Values
+ Accessibility
Provide a low barrier, far reaching, resource that transcends financial and geographic barriers
+ Consistency
Provide consistent, safe, readily available environments of guidance and support
+ Culture
Draw upon ancestral wisdom and lifeways to empower healing and growth.
+Community
Build healthy relationships that steward belonging, respect, cooperation, and reciprocity.
Meet the Team
JEREMY FIELDS
Program Director
Jeremy@ituhku.org
Innael Miranda
Clinical Director
Innael@ituhku.org
Shatta Mejia
Project Manager
Shatta@ituhku.org