Cherokee Nation integrates culture into treatment center built with opioid settlement funds
Culture is central to recovery at the Cherokee Nation’s new treatment center, financed with opioid settlement funds.
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — Culture is vital for recovery. That’s a lesson Juli Skinner, a citizen of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, learned during her time in foster care, years later working in child welfare and now, as the senior director of the Cherokee Nation’s behavioral health center.