Wolf River Consulting Group

Wolf River Consulting Partners with Native American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois to Support Economic Recovery for Native American Owned Small Businesses

Governor J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) has selected the Native American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois (NACC-IL) along with three Native and Women-owned businesses, Wolf River Consulting, Visionary Ventures NFP Corporation, and Native American Financial Literacy Services to support the Small Business Community Read the full article...

Wolf River Consulting Managing Partner Appointed to Native American Employment Plan Advisory Council

Kim Vigue, Wolf River Consulting Managing Partner, has been appointed by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to the newly established Native American Employment Plan Advisory Council (NAEPAC), developed to increase employment and promotional opportunities for Native Americans in Illinois. The NAEPAC is a state-level council comprised of 10 tribal citizens representing Read the full article...

Introduction to SOAR for Native Communities Webinar

The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SOAR (SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery) initiative is pleased to announce its expansion to Indian Country and commitment to providing specialized, culturally-appropriate training and technical assistance designed to increase access to disability income benefit programs administered by the Social Security Administration Read the full article...

Wolf River Consulting Partners with SAMHSA to Increase Access to Social Security Disability Benefits for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities

Wolf River Consulting Group is partnering with the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) SOAR Technical Assistance Center and Policy Research Associates on the expansion of the SOAR Initiative into urban and rural American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. The SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) Read the full article...

Wolf River Consulting Awarded Indian Health Service Contract to Provide Methamphetamine and Suicide and Prevention Services

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Indian Health Service (IHS) recently selected Wolf River Consulting Group LLC to provide visioning and strategic planning services for the Catawba Service Unit’s Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative (MSPI), a national program that promotes the use and development of evidence-based and practice-based Read the full article...

Wolf River Consulting Selected to Present at the 2019 Urban Native Education Conference

Wolf River Consulting has been selected to present at the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative’s 3rd Annual 2019 Urban Native Education Conference, “Nurturing Our Knowledge Keepers” in Chicago, IL on May 4, 2019. Dr. Tommy Begay of the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine and Wolf River’s Managing Partner, Kim Read the full article...

Wolf River Consulting Honors National Kidney Month and World Kidney Day

Please join Wolf River Consulting Group in honoring National Kidney Month and celebrating World Kidney Day on March 14th. Kidney disease is a condition that affects us all with nearly 1 in 3 Americans at risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although there is no cure for CKD, early detection, Read the full article...

Wolf River Consulting Co-Facilitates Tribal Suicide Prevention Training

American Indians and Alaska Natives have the highest rates of suicide of any racial or ethnic group in the United States with rates in this population increasing since 2003. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for Native youth and young adults aged 10–24 years and is two to four Read the full article...

SAMHSA is now accepting applications for the Garrett Lee Smith State/Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Grant Program

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for the Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) State/Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Grant Program totaling up to $19 million over five years. SAMHSA is expected to fund 26 grantees with up to $736,000 per year. The deadline Read the full article...

Kalihwisaks: Vigue Has Wolf River Consulting Group Up and Running

Kim Vigue, Managing Partner & Founder of Wolf River Consulting Group, is featured alongside her partners, Rose David and Dr. Jeanette Hassin in the Kalihwisaks (She Looks for News), the official newspaper of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. https://oneida-nsn.gov/dl-file.php?file=2018/09/September-20-2018-Kali.pdf