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Advisory Board
FB Advisory Board Information for
Cordelia Clapp
| Name |
Cordelia Clapp |
| Tribe |
Pawnee |
| Primary Phone | 580-362-1039 |
| Status |
Active |
| Additional Details | Cordelia Clapp is a Native American health care professional who was born in Sells, Arizona to a full blood Pawnee mother and a full blood Spanish father and currently lives in Cedar Vale, Kansas. Currently she is a nurse consultant and educator for the tribes of Oklahoma and nationally providing numerous national and regional presentations on all aspects of health disparities that plague the Tribal communities. For the past nine years she has worked in a Clinical Tribal setting as their Public Health Nurse and secured and was the coordinator of a Tribal Domestic Violence Grant and the Faith-Based Grant for approximately 4 years cultivating partnerships and collaboration with the Faith-Based community, state, local and tribal providers to develop wrap around services for those served through both programs.
Currently Ms. Clapp is a member of three National Boards for the American Heart Association and also sits on three local boards, the Dearing House (Child Advocacy Center), Ponca City Memorial Hospital Diabetic Advisory Board and Pani Hope Advisory Board (Tribal Systems of Care Program). One of her proudest accomplishments was being selected by Alberto Gonzales, US Attorney General in 2006-2008 to be a member of the National Advisory Committee on Violence against Women representing the Tribal Community. She was also awarded the Local Impact Award at the National Indian Health Board 21st Consumer Conference for her outstanding efforts in the improvement of health care delivery for American Indians. Her recent appointments this year, 2009, she has been selected to serve on a Working Group for the DOJ for the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examination for Tribes and also on a Working Group for the VOW for the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Evidence Examinations for utilization by lay people in Indian Country.
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