Indian Health Council's What About Life Podcast

Yeni L. Palomino, CHIPSPC and Brett Hall join the podcast to talk about the services, programs and partnerships CHIP offers.  Established in 1995, Community Health Improvement Partners (CHIP) has been a leader in innovative, collaborative solutions to address critical community health issues in the San Diego region. The mission of CHIP is to advance long-term solutions to priority health need...

This week on the What About Life podcast we get to know 97 year old, Pala Elder, and US Armed Forces Veteran Gilbert Mojado. We dive into his time serving during WWII, his near death encounter and we hear about how much he admired and loved his wife.

IHC's very own Dr. Davidson joins the podcast and talks about her 25 year career as a Family Physician, including her 15 years at IHC. She shares her childhood experiences that lead to her interest in being a Doctor, and we get the low-down on her fascination with kitchen magnets and how she's the one who hides Dr. Calac's office rocks. All that and more on What About Life!

Isaiah Thompson joins the podcast to discuss his sports background, his incredible work with Inter Tribal Sports and how they are using sports to change the lives of kids on the reservations.

It's National Immunization Awareness month and IHC's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dan Calac joins the podcast to talk about the truth of vaccines, the importance of them to the individual and to the community. He also breaks down the differences vaccines play in older and younger generations.

Jason, George and David are joined by guest Keith Vasquez . Keith shares his journey from his troubled youth to his sobriety, and how his mentorship and coaching of youth through a very successful flag-football program with the Native Youth Foundation continues to drive him to do and be better for his community.

George and David sit down with football superstar Edward Hill and his mother Bennae Calac, Co-Founder of the  7G Foundation , a (501)(c)(3) organization providing Native Americans, and other Indigenous people and communities, assistance in reaching their goals through Athletics, Education, Health-Mind-Body Practices, and Community. Edward talks about his journey with football, including his r...

Join David and George as they sit down to chat with Valley Center High School's own wrestling superstar and athletic phenom Desiree Jones. Joined by her mother Danielle we have a lively chat about what it takes to succeed, how Desiree channels her passion for success into winning on the mat and what it means for her leaving the La Jolla Reservation to the bay area to attend Menlo College.

Join the PEI team for this very casual episode where the team chats about Positive Adventures... They talk about adventures they've had, ways to stay positive and much more!

July is "positive adventures" with the PEI team! Join us as we get to know Skye Holmes, IHC's Injury Prevention Coordinator. We talk about the importance of safety to having positive adventures as well as hearing a bit about Skye's journey as a kid growing up locally, to joining the IHC team and how she's working to shape her future.

Get to know one of our exciting young team members as the PEI team sits down to talk with Shandiin Armao, IHC's HIV/STI Project Coordinator. Shandiin shares with us her journey from being a rez kid in Winslow, AZ to her time playing basketball at UCSD and how the past three years at IHC have all helped to shape the person she is becoming. It's a fun and inspirational chat with an impressive young...

In our first ever sit-down with a guest, we are joined by Dr. Dan Calac, Chief Medical Officer at Indian Health Council. Dr. Calac is very well respected at IHC and within the community at large, and we wanted to hear from him about his journey to becoming a doctor. As you'll hear, the journey from kid growing up around here to becoming the CMO at IHC wasn't exactly a straight forward path. It's a...

The PEI team at Indian Health Council dives deep into the shady world of scams. Scammers conduct fraudulent acts against not just elders, but people of all ages and backgrounds globally everyday to the tune of multiple billions of dollars a year. The team tries to help listeners recognize the scams and provides suggestions on how to avoid them.

The PEI team discusses the needs and generational disconnect of our elders.

Closing out Mental Health Awareness Month the IHC PEI team discuss how it's important to both let other's know that you are a safe space for them to come to if they are in crisis, but also that it's important to make sure your follow up and assistance is solid.

The IHC PEI team continues to explore Mental Health Awareness Month with a discussion about recognizing mental health issues in people you care about. Art Calvo shares a story about his interactions with a friend who was battling mental health issues to demonstrate how he came to recognize that issues were affecting his friend's mental health.

The Indian Health Council PEI team continues May Mental Health Awareness Month discussions in an episode about the importance of self-care.

The PEI team welcome guest Tina Garcia from IHC's Behavioral Health Department to discuss Mental Health Awareness and Recovery.

The PEI team break down the Star Wars saga and how the stories relate to mental health struggles in what is surely their nerdiest episode to date! #ihcsd #ihcmham

The PEI team, joined one more time by Pedro Domingo of IHC's Research and Student Development team, share a number of helpful resources for mental health.

Pedro Domingo of IHC's Research and Student Development program joins the PEI team again to discuss what the latest mental health statistics from 2020 indicate to researchers. Also, the team discusses the importance of understanding the context behind the numbers as they were acquired.

Pedro Domingo from IHC's Research and Student Development team once again joins the PEI team to chat about stats. This week we examine how the numbers can be visualized in a real world way to make sense of how the numbers "look" within our community.

Pedro Domingo from IHC's Research and Student Development department joins the PEI team to discuss the local and national statistics on mental health issues. Together the team gives insight into how the surveys they use feed into the stats and how the stats feed into the creation, awarding and application of grant based programs here at IHC and in the medical field at large.

The What About Life crew discuss the importance of Self-Care in living with disabilities as well as how you can help others.

The What About Life crew discuss the difficulties members of our IHC community may face in seeking and finding help with their disabilities.