NWIC Center for Health (NWICCH) is a partnership between Northwest Indian College, the University of Washington, Washington State University and the Northwest Washington Indian Health Board. The intention of NWICCH is to encourage and support health-related programs and careers for NWIC faculty/students, and in that way, to serve the College's tribal communities. There are five local tribal community partners—Lummi, Nooksack, Samish, Swinomish and Upper Skagit.

Currently, there are four projects funded by Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH):

The Growing Our Own Native American Students and Faculty Program focuses on building a networked cadre of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people in the health and research workforce while developing capacity for university/tribal community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships.

The overall goal of the Native Pathways to Sobriety: Pacific Northwest Oral Life Histories (Pathways) is to collect oral life histories from Native people with a focus on prevention and recovery from alcohol and drug abuse. The Pathways research team is especially interested in better understanding and documenting stories of strengths, resiliencies and hope.

Caring for Our Generations is a community action project supporting Native women and their families. The Northwest Washington Indian Health Board has identified maternal health and substance use as one of its highest priority concerns. The project team will be guided by a Community Action Board made up of tribal community leaders, health provides and elders.

The TCU Alcohol Problems and Solutions Study is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project with Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). This research project will provide an essential knowledge base of specific culturally-based information about alcohol use in tribal colleges and universities, and also a model to develop culturally-specific intervention for American Indian and Alaska Native tribes.