About Re-IX5 Institute Built in community.
Grounded in evidence.
Ready to scale.
Re-IX5 was created to bridge clinical care, community health, and family-based prevention across generations.
Re-IX5 Institute Founder
Dr. Raichell Dorland-Roan has worked in Big Horn County and Crow Nation, Montana for more than twenty years — not as an outside expert, but as a practitioner embedded in the communities she serves. The programs described on this site were not designed in a research setting and then brought to the community for validation. They were built from two decades of direct clinical practice, community relationship, and the accumulated understanding of what works, what fails, and what the peer-reviewed literature alone cannot see.
Dr. Dorland-Roan holds five clinical credentials, each directly reflected in the programs Re-IX5 has built:
DrPH — Doctor of Public Health. Systems thinker, not just a clinician. Trained to understand how structural conditions shape health outcomes and how systems can be redesigned to support change rather than constrain it.
RDN — Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. Medical nutrition therapy authority. The clinical foundation of the Nutrition pillar running through every Re-IX5 program.
LN — Licensed Nutritionist, State of Montana. State licensure for nutritional practice.
CDCES — Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist. The credential that governs accredited diabetes self-management education — the Diabetes Journey™ clinical program and the ADCES DEAP accreditation currently in progress.
CLC — Certified Lactation Counselor. The expertise anchoring the S.A.F.E. Journey™ breastfeeding arc and the non-judgment standard across all prenatal and postnatal program content.
Re-IX5 Institute operates through a dual-entity structure designed to hold both intellectual property and community mission with integrity.
Re-IX5 Institute, LLC owns all program intellectual property — curriculum, methodology, and the Re-Ionvent™ trademark. It is the consulting and IP licensing entity.
Re-IX5 Institute Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that delivers community health programs, holds grant funding, and carries the implementation work into Big Horn County and Crow Nation. The Foundation holds the Montana Healthcare Foundation 2026 Implementation Grant, with Big Horn County Public Health as fiscal sponsor and Crow Tribal Health as primary community partner.
The Re-IX5 model rests on two bodies of original research. Master's-level work established statistically significant relationships between multiple lifestyle behaviors and health-related quality of life — the multi-domain intervention foundation of the LIFE Journey™ design. Doctoral-level implementation work produced statistically significant improvements across all measured outcomes (p < 0.001) with large effect sizes (Cohen's d = 1.386–2.675) — demonstrating what becomes possible when system-level infrastructure is redesigned rather than supplemented.
These are not background studies. They are the empirical foundation the Re-IX5 model is built on.
Dr. Dorland-Roan's work does not sit at the edge of the systems she is trying to change — it sits inside them. She holds active leadership and advisory roles across the institutional landscape that Re-IX5 programs are designed to work within and ultimately transform.
She currently serves on the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Chronic Disease Prevention and Weight Management Steering Committee — an active working relationship, not a letter of endorsement, that positions the Re-IX5 pilot evidence to feed directly into DPHHS statewide adoption consideration.
As Member at Large and Tribal Liaison for the Montana Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (MT ADCES), she bridges the clinical diabetes education community and Tribal health contexts — the exact intersection where the Diabetes Journey™ and LIFE Journey™ programs operate. This role ensures Re-IX5 program design reflects current CDCES standards and that Tribal community perspectives are represented at the state clinical level.
She serves on the Big Horn County Public Health Community Assessment Steering Committee — the planning body that identifies Big Horn County's priority health needs and guides public health resource allocation. Re-IX5 programs are not being proposed to this community. They are being built by someone who is already at the table where community health decisions are made.
As a board member of Healthy Communities Inc., she contributes to the broader Montana community health infrastructure that Re-IX5 programs are designed to work alongside and strengthen.
Her ongoing work with Crow Tribal Health and IHS includes advancing policy and procedure initiatives at both IHS and Big Horn Hospital — the two primary clinical institutions serving the population LIFE Journey™ and the Diabetes Journey™ are built to complement. These are not external partnerships formed for this grant. They are working relationships built over twenty years of direct practice in the same community.
Together these roles mean that when Re-IX5 programs generate pilot evidence, there are already pathways — and already a seat at the table — to move that evidence into policy, clinical practice, and statewide infrastructure.