To walk every relative — survivor, family, community — back into hózhó.
The Hózhó Path Renewal Foundation is a Native-led 501(c)(3) working to end violence against Indigenous women and girls. We do this through three interwoven commitments: healing the harm done, educating the next generation, and changing the systems that have let this crisis grow.
Hózhó is not one word in English. It is many.
Beauty. Balance. Harmony. Wellness. Peace. Right relationship.
In the Diné way, hózhó describes a state of being in right relationship — with oneself, with one’s family, with the land, with the people who came before and those who will come after. It is what the morning prayer asks for. It is what ceremony returns us to.
When violence enters a community, hózhó is fractured. The work of renewal is not to pretend the harm never happened — it is to walk, with one another, back into balance. That walk is the foundation of everything we do.
A future where every relative comes home.
We envision a generation of Indigenous women and girls who grow up knowing their names will never be a statistic.
We envision a system that does not let our relatives disappear between jurisdictions — where every report is taken seriously, every search is supported, every family is heard.
We envision communities where survivors are met with ceremony and skill, not stigma and silence — where healing is led by those who know the prayers in our own languages.
We envision a country that finally sees what has been hidden in plain sight, and walks alongside us toward repair.
Three pillars. One promise.
Healing
We walk with survivors — at their own pace, in their own language, with the support that fits their lives.
- · Crisis advocacy and emergency support
- · Traditional healing access alongside licensed clinical care
- · Long-term wraparound case management
- · Family liaison work for families of the missing
Education
We teach what schools and headlines do not — and we equip the next generation with the strength their grandmothers carried.
- · Youth curriculum on safety, identity, and consent
- · Public awareness toolkits and community trainings
- · Trainings for providers, educators, and journalists
- · Language and ceremony programs
Community Impact
We close the gaps that have let this crisis grow — in the law, in the data, in the rooms where decisions are made.
- · Search and casework support for families
- · Cross-jurisdictional advocacy (tribal, state, federal)
- · Policy reform and legislative testimony
- · Coalition-building across Indian Country
How we walk.
Native-led, always.
Our board, staff, and program leadership are Indigenous. Decisions are made by those most affected by them. Non-Native allies are welcome in support — never in the seat of leadership.
Survivor-centered, never sensational.
We do not use anyone’s pain for fundraising. Stories are shared only with consent and only in the way the storyteller asks them to be carried. Dignity is non-negotiable.
Traditional and clinical, together.
Ceremony and licensed care are not in competition. We resource both, and we trust each survivor to know what they need.
Hopeful, but not naive.
We name the crisis honestly. We also know our people have survived worse and emerged whole. Hózhó is not a soft word. It is a discipline.
Transparent in the work.
We publish where the money goes. We share what works and what doesn’t. We are accountable to the communities we serve before any funder.
In it for generations.
This crisis took generations to make. It will take generations of patient work to unmake. We are building an organization that will outlast any one of us.
Where this work comes from.
A kitchen table, a list of names.
The foundation began the way most Native-led work begins — around a kitchen table, in the company of women who refused to let the names of their relatives be forgotten.
A 501(c)(3) for the long road.
We incorporated as a Native-led 501(c)(3) so the work could outlast any one organizer, any one news cycle, any one season of attention. The crisis is generational. So is our commitment.
Walking, together.
Today we serve survivors and families across multiple tribal communities. We train providers and educators. We sit at policy tables. And we keep adding chairs to the kitchen table.
We do not measure success in headlines. We measure it in the number of relatives who came home, in the survivors who became mentors, in the policies that finally changed.
Walk with us.
Our mission lives in the hands of the people who choose, every day, to carry it forward — survivors, families, volunteers, donors, and dreamers.