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September 8, 2026New Website Coming Soon
Our website is currently undergoing some updates as our organization changes and a new, updated version will be coming soon.
November 25, 2024OU Health Sciences Receives Federal Grant to Recognize Descendants of American Indian POWs Incarcerated at Fort Marion
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to engage with the descendants of American Indian individuals who were incarcerated at Fort Marion in Florida during the 1870s.
Project Making Medicine Training
Training in Treatment of Child Physical and Sexual Abuse
Planned trainings will resume in the spring of 2027.
Please contact us to let us know you are interested and we will get in touch once registration is open.
About Us
SACRED — Strengthening AI/AN Children through Research, Education & Development — is a Native maternal and child health research center at the University of Oklahoma Health Campus and is collaboratively leading Cancer Prevention Research with the Native American Center for Cancer Health Excellence/NACCHE within the Stephenson Cancer Center. We advance AI/AN child well-being, maternal and paternal health, and family wellness through evidence-informed approaches that strengthen relationships, promote healthy behaviors, and prevent cancer and other chronic diseases. We do so through conducting rigorous culturally-grounded, community-engaged research, health interventions, and trainings.
Team
Advisors
Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD
A trained child psychologist and Professor directing the Native American Programs at the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect at OUHSC. Funded since 1994 by the Children's Bureau, she has directed Project Making Medicine and from 2003 she has directed the Indian Country Child Trauma Center where she was instrumental in the cultural adapted interventions of evidence based treatments. Under her guidance, four EBTs were adapted for American Indian and Alaska Native families in Indian Country titled the Honoring Children Series. One of the four is Honoring Children, Making Relatives, a cultural adaptation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, for use with AI/AN children and their families. It incorporates AI/AN teachings, practices, rituals, traditions, and cultural orientation while maintaining the guiding principles and theory of PCIT.
Dr. BigFoot has over 15 published articles and chapters, including the lead author of the recent publication, “Adapting Evidence-Based Treatments for Use with American Indians and Native Alaskan Children and Youth.” Dr. BigFoot has served as PI on thirteen federally funded projects. Another distinction has been her service on the SAMHSA/CMHS National Advisory Council, National Network to Eliminate Health Disparities, and on the working groups for the Indian Health Service and the National Indian Child Welfare Association. She was selected to attend the White House conference on children's mental health, is Past President of the Society of Indian Psychologists. She serves as an advisor to the home visitation tribal grantees and the NRC4Tribes both funded by the Children's Bureau; these address various concerns dealing with child welfare issues with American Indian and Alaska Native tribal grantees.
Dr. BigFoot has over 30 years of experience and is knowledgeable about the concerns of implementation and adaptation of evidenced based practices being introduced into Indian Country. She is well aware of the research, mental health, and sovereignty issues raised by tribes and tribal organizations. Her knowledge in providing improved and effective services to Indian Country is highly valued.
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Address
- SACRED
- Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
- 1000 N.E. 13th Street,
- Nicholson Tower, Suite 4900
- Oklahoma City, OK 73104