Biography
Faith Price is of Assonet Band of Wampanoag, African American, and European descent. She was raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, where she currently resides. She joined the Center for Indigenous Health in July of 2024. Faith works remotely as a Research Associate in St. Ignatius, MT. She is involved in the development and piloting of a nature-based, culturally grounded substance misuse intervention for young Séliš, Ql̓ispé, and Ksanka families. She also assists with cultural adaptation and implementation of an evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program in two Montana communities.
Prior to joining the Center, Faith spent over 20 years working with primarily Indigenous youth in the higher education and prevention fields. She is passionate about empowering and supporting Native youth to live their best lives. Most recently, she worked as the director of prevention at All Nations Health Center in Missoula, MT providing suicide and substance use prevention programming for urban Native youth and young adults. This included facilitating Project Venture, an evidence-based positive youth development program with an emphasis on outdoor adventure. Faith is an active member of the Montana Alliance of Prevention and was a founding member of the Montana Prevention Certification Board. She is currently the chair of the Healthy Missoula Youth coalition’s policy and law committee, focusing on advocacy for a public health-minded policy approach to cannabis.
Faith has an MS and PhD in Prevention Science from Washington State University. She received her BA in social work and MA in journalism from the University of Montana. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, camping, crafting, cooking, going to powwows and spending time with her family, friends, and three dogs.