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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department provides primary law enforcement services to the 18 Indian reservations throughout the county.
Our tribal partners offer a variety of resources to their tribal members to enhance physical, mental, and spiritual health of the tribal consortium. They provide a wide range of wellness, healthcare, and social services to all the tribal members from the 18 Indian reservations.
Click on the following links to see all the services they have to offer:
Health, Family and Wellness
Southern Indian Health Council
Southern Indian Health Council is a Native American organization committed to protecting and improving the physical, mental and spiritual health of our American Indian community. We provide a comprehensive range of wellness, professional health care, dental, and social services.
Strong Hearted Native Women’s Coalition, Inc. works to bring awareness against sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, sex-trafficking, and murdered & missing in Southern California. The purpose of our coalition is to enhance the capacity of survivors, advocates, victim organizations, and victim services providers to end violence against American Indian and Alaskan Native people. The goal of our organization is to increase the approachability to improving systemic and community responses to victims. To raise awareness, educate, and to provide technical assistance, training, and supportive services for victims including cultural and unique barriers facing Native Americans.
Indian Health Council, Inc. (IHC) established in 1970, is a consortium of nine tribes dedicated to the continual betterment of Indian Health, wholeness, and well-being. With a main facility located adjacent to the Rincon reservation in Pauma Valley and the Santa Ysabel Community Health Center located on the Santa Ysabel Reservation, IHC provides a full spectrum of on-site and outreach services and programs to the North San Diego County reservations of Inaja-Cosmit, La Jolla, Los Coyotes, Mesa Grande, Pala, Pauma, Rincon, San Pasqual, and Santa Ysabel. Our Mission is to continually nurture a balance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being.
Government Assistance
Intertribal Court of Southern California
The Intertribal Court of Southern California (ICSC) was formed in 2002 when the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association received a grant from the United States Department of Justice. The ICSC began operation in August of 2006. The purpose of the ICSC is to provide its member tribes with an independent and culturally sensitive forum in which to present and resolve disputes. The ICSC serves a consortium of tribes from across southern California.
Office of Native American Affairs (Attorney General's Office)
The Office of Native American Affairs, commonly referred to as ONAA, was created in 2000. ONAA provides three (3) main functions within the Office of the Attorney General, California Department of Justice and those functions are as follows: Serves as tribal liaison between the DOJ and federal, tribal, state and local justice systems, facilitates and promotes a statewide framework for state and tribal partnerships, and advises the Attorney General on matters of importance to California tribal governments and tribal citizens.
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Indian Affairs provides services directly or through contracts, grants, or compacts to 574 Federally recognized tribes with a service population of about 1.9 million American Indian and Alaska Natives. While the role of Indian Affairs has changed significantly in the last three decades in response to a greater emphasis on Indian self-governance and self-determination, Tribes still look to Indian Affairs for a broad spectrum of services.
Office of Tribal Justice (DOJ)
The Office of Tribal Justice (OTJ) was initially formed in 1995 in response to requests from Tribal leaders for a dedicated point of contact for Indian country-specific legal and policy matters.
Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association (SCTCA)
Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association (SCTCA) coordinates and administers numerous grant programs for its members and the southern California Indian community, including: Tribal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Law Enforcement, Food Commodities, Information Technology Services, Rincon Community Child Development Center, Adult Vocational Training, Career Development Center, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program(LIHEAP), the Library Program, Child Care Development Services, Tribal Digital Village (TDV) and Resource Prevention Program.