Nurse pinning set at Fort Belknap college

Press release

Aaniiih Nakoda College will be graduating its first class of Associate of Science in Nursing degrees this month.

The official pinning ceremony is Sunday, May 6, at 2 p.m. at the Fort Belknap Community Center west of the Fort Belknap Agency Tourism and Kwik Stop C-store. A meal will follow the pinning ceremony.

Theresa Brockie, PHD, RN, FAAN, will be the guest speaker at the pinning ceremony. She will also conduct a presentation to the ANC students and community members Wednesday, May 9, at 1 p.m. in Returning Buffalo, Room 213, at the college. Her presentation will focus on achieving health equity through community based prevention and intervention of suicide, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences among vulnerable populations research.

Brockie, is the daughter of Henry "Prince" and Ruby Brockie, of Hays. She is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a joint appointment as an Associate Scientist in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center for American Indian Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

Brockie is of the Fort Belknap White Clay - A'aninin - Nation. She earned her PhD at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. She received the RADM Faye G. Abdellah Publication Award for Nursing Research by the United States Public Health Service Professional Advisory Committee for Nursing for her manuscript "The Relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences to PTSD, Depression, Poly-Drug Use and Suicide Attempt in Reservation-Based Native American Adolescents and Young Adults," published in the American Journal of Community Psychology.

Her current work concentrates on a unique intergenerational intervention for enhancing cultural strengths and healing trauma among indigenous parent child dyads.