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| SM063476-02 | Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians | Lac Du Flambeau | WI | $200,000 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections Mnwaadzid Miinwaa Wankiid, or Live Well and Live in Peace, is a culturally congruent approach focused on Native at-risk youth and families who are suffering from suicide ideation, behavioral health, and trauma. The project utilizes western evidence based approaches and tools that consist of CRA,QPR,PHQ-9, and Avatar. Year One of the project consists of developing protocols, practices, and policies that address service gaps, prevention, and crisis response with the sponsoring community in Lac du Flambeau. The project will build on their current infrastructure and engage the community through their Saving Lives Community Partnership Taskforce. The project will conduct community awareness on suicide prevention and behavioral health by hosting Community Readiness Training, and conducting the CRA on an annual basis in LDF. The project will conduct training using AVATAR Program within the local 7 school districts. Finally, the project will attend 12 community functions and conduct 778 suicide and behavioral health risk screenings using the PHQ-9. The project will collect the data from the various tools initially and work with the community and system partners through technical assistance to allow for sustainability and on-going data collection. The project will develop this model in LDF the first year and develop a plan to implement the model in at least 12 other tribal communities in the region for years 2-5. Years 2-5, the project will work with at least 12 tribal communities in the great lakes region on suicide and behavioral health prevention and early intervention. The project goal is to reduce suicide amongst AI youth and families' and increase early intervention and responses by identifying risk of youth prior to a crisis. Through the use of the tools the project will identify the number of at-risk youth in need of services, the percentage of follow-up on such referrals, and community social change.
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| SM063477-01 | Havasupai Tribal Council | Supai | AZ | $199,681 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections Approximately 640 people live in our remote village, Supai, AZ, located in a slot canyon in the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The Havasupai people are a strong and resilient people, possessing deep cultural and familial roots with our home in the Grand Canyon. Historical injustices and limited educational and economic opportunities have had negative effects on our people. Many have preserved but some have turned to unhealthy coping strategies, abusing drugs and alcohol and attempting and carrying out suicide to block the psycho-social pain and intergenerational trauma. This pain is juxtaposed by the beauty and culture of our community. Substance use and substance abuse-related deaths have been increasing in our community over the past two decades. Prevention services and mental health and behavioral health services are inconsistent and often not available to those who need them. Through this project, we hope to conduct a community needs assessment, community readiness assessment, and create a community resource map to guide intervention development to decrease gaps in substance use and mental health services and increase mental health wellness among the Havasupai people.
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| SM063477-02 | Havasupai Tribal Council | Supai | AZ | $199,783 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections Approximately 640 people live in our remote village, Supai, AZ, located in a slot canyon in the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The Havasupai people are a strong and resilient people, possessing deep cultural and familial roots with our home in the Grand Canyon. Historical injustices and limited educational and economic opportunities have had negative effects on our people. Many have preserved but some have turned to unhealthy coping strategies, abusing drugs and alcohol and attempting and carrying out suicide to block the psycho-social pain and intergenerational trauma. This pain is juxtaposed by the beauty and culture of our community. Substance use and substance abuse-related deaths have been increasing in our community over the past two decades. Prevention services and mental health and behavioral health services are inconsistent and often not available to those who need them. Through this project, we hope to conduct a community needs assessment, community readiness assessment, and create a community resource map to guide intervention development to decrease gaps in substance use and mental health services and increase mental health wellness among the Havasupai people.
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| SM063478-01 | Yakutat Tlingit Tribe | Yakutat | AK | $200,000 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections Yakutat Community Health Center has created a behavioral health department as part of an initiative to deliver more integrated and comprehensive care within the community. This project will enable a Master's level Clinician to monitor and intervene when problem indicators reveal themselves as well as promote activities that build protective factors. The community of Yakutat's beginning is enriched with strong cultural ties going back thousands of years when it was a hub for trade among the American Indian and Alaska Native people. Today the population is on the decline and the economy is struggling. Many families are moving from the area in search of better socio-economic and educational opportunities. Although 2015 Census data estimates that the population claiming one race as AI/AN is 35.8%, the 2015 Yakutat School District for Native youth enrolled was 70%. This indicates that many Native families are choosing to remain within the community. This could be occurring for a number of reasons, including not wanting to leave the land from where their ancestors are from, to more dismal supposition like financial insecurity (up to 40% of the Yakutat population is considered LMI) and a lack of knowledge about how to safely navigate in the outside world. There are currently 216 youth ages 24 and under present in the community who could benefit from increasing direct and supportive services specific to youth. Over the course of a five-year period, it is estimated that 264 youth could be impacted. As illustrated in the body of the narrative, Native youth are more likely to attempt suicide, consume alcohol earlier on, and experience dating violence and/or sexual assault. These rates are much higher for Alaska. Strengthening services and increasing access and awareness will aid us in our overall goal of preventing and reducing suicidal behavior and substance abuse, reducing the impact of trauma, and promoting mental health among our young Native population up to age 24.
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| SM063478-02 | Yakutat Tlingit Tribe | Yakutat | AK | $199,936 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections Yakutat Community Health Center has created a behavioral health department as part of an initiative to deliver more integrated and comprehensive care within the community. This project will enable a Master's level Clinician to monitor and intervene when problem indicators reveal themselves as well as promote activities that build protective factors. The community of Yakutat's beginning is enriched with strong cultural ties going back thousands of years when it was a hub for trade among the American Indian and Alaska Native people. Today the population is on the decline and the economy is struggling. Many families are moving from the area in search of better socio-economic and educational opportunities. Although 2015 Census data estimates that the population claiming one race as AI/AN is 35.8%, the 2015 Yakutat School District for Native youth enrolled was 70%. This indicates that many Native families are choosing to remain within the community. This could be occurring for a number of reasons, including not wanting to leave the land from where their ancestors are from, to more dismal supposition like financial insecurity (up to 40% of the Yakutat population is considered LMI) and a lack of knowledge about how to safely navigate in the outside world. There are currently 216 youth ages 24 and under present in the community who could benefit from increasing direct and supportive services specific to youth. Over the course of a five-year period, it is estimated that 264 youth could be impacted. As illustrated in the body of the narrative, Native youth are more likely to attempt suicide, consume alcohol earlier on, and experience dating violence and/or sexual assault. These rates are much higher for Alaska. Strengthening services and increasing access and awareness will aid us in our overall goal of preventing and reducing suicidal behavior and substance abuse, reducing the impact of trauma, and promoting mental health among our young Native population up to age 24.
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| SM063483-01 | Spirit Lake Tribe | Fort Totten | ND | $195,587 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The purpose of the Spirit Lake Tribe Connections grant is to enhance and/or revise protocols to ensure that youth who are at high risk of suicide receive appropriate referrals, mental health services and follow-up services that will allow for preventing and reducing suicidal behavior and substance abuse and promote mental health among young people up to and including age 24. Goals to be achieved through collaborations and determined interventions: 1. Continue to educate our Tribal community that suicide is a public health problem that is preventable and provide suicide prevention related programs in all area schools. 2. Develop Memorandum of Understanding agreements with a broad spectrum of Tribal entities to generate greater and more effective attention to suicide prevention and a referral process. 3. Enhance strategies to reduce the stigma associated with participating in mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention services. 4. Develop postvention protocols that are in concert with our culture and beliefs. 5. Implement suicide prevention surveillance data collection and evaluation.
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| SM063483-02 | Spirit Lake Tribe | Fort Totten | ND | $195,587 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The purpose of the Spirit Lake Tribe Connections grant is to enhance and/or revise protocols to ensure that youth who are at high risk of suicide receive appropriate referrals, mental health services and follow-up services that will allow for preventing and reducing suicidal behavior and substance abuse and promote mental health among young people up to and including age 24. Goals to be achieved through collaborations and determined interventions: 1. Continue to educate our Tribal community that suicide is a public health problem that is preventable and provide suicide prevention related programs in all area schools. 2. Develop Memorandum of Understanding agreements with a broad spectrum of Tribal entities to generate greater and more effective attention to suicide prevention and a referral process. 3. Enhance strategies to reduce the stigma associated with participating in mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention services. 4. Develop postvention protocols that are in concert with our culture and beliefs. 5. Implement suicide prevention surveillance data collection and evaluation.
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| SM063484-01 | Hunkpapa Development | Rapid City | SD | $200,000 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections This project is titled Suicide Prevention. The project goals of this program is to prevent and reduce suicidal behavior and substance abuse, reduce the impact of trauma, and promote mental health among American Indian young people, up to and including age 24 years. Our target population will be those youth 24 years old and younger who are Native American and living on, or near, the Sioux reservation. This population will be at-risk of suicide attempts or substance abuse, or they may already have these issues. The number of people to be served annually will be 100 individuals, and 500 over the lifetime of this project. Project goals for year one are to develop the program with policies and procedures, as well as protocols. A diverse task force of community partners will lead the direction and development of this program. The ultimate goal is to reduce the suicide rates and substance abuse among our tribal youth. The project will use a collaboration of different evidenced based program, a prevention program, a treatment modality and an education program for our Suicide prevention, substance abuse prevention, addressing trauma, and mental health promotion. By using collaboration of programs, our community will benefit in numerous ways and we will be able to accommodate different learning types and several levels of wellness. It is our community's vision to provide our youth with the skills to become stable adults in all areas of their lives.
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| SM063484-02 | Hunkpapa Development | Rapid City | SD | $200,000 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections This project is titled Suicide Prevention. The project goals of this program is to prevent and reduce suicidal behavior and substance abuse, reduce the impact of trauma, and promote mental health among American Indian young people, up to and including age 24 years. Our target population will be those youth 24 years old and younger who are Native American and living on, or near, the Sioux reservation. This population will be at-risk of suicide attempts or substance abuse, or they may already have these issues. The number of people to be served annually will be 100 individuals, and 500 over the lifetime of this project. Project goals for year one are to develop the program with policies and procedures, as well as protocols. A diverse task force of community partners will lead the direction and development of this program. The ultimate goal is to reduce the suicide rates and substance abuse among our tribal youth. The project will use a collaboration of different evidenced based program, a prevention program, a treatment modality and an education program for our Suicide prevention, substance abuse prevention, addressing trauma, and mental health promotion. By using collaboration of programs, our community will benefit in numerous ways and we will be able to accommodate different learning types and several levels of wellness. It is our community's vision to provide our youth with the skills to become stable adults in all areas of their lives.
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| SM063485-01 | Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley | San Jose | CA | $200,000 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Restoring Balance to Our Youth project at Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley (IHC) will prevent and reduce suicide and substance use and abuse among urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth age 10-24 by offering traditional and cultural programs and activities that serve a demonstrated need for reducing the impact of trauma and promoting mental health among young people in the local urban tribal community. In the midst of national news-making events in Santa Clara County and disturbing upward trends in suicide rates nationwide, a project team based in the Traditional Healing Program at IHC will work to: 1) prevent and reduce suicidal behavior and substance abuse, 2) reduce the impact of trauma, and 3) promote mental health among AI/AN youth. During Year 1, IHC will dedicate planning efforts to expanding on a recent youth mental health readiness assessment and integrate an array of culturally-based traditional services, focusing on strengthening positive cultural identity and self-understanding. Planning efforts will include expanding an established Community Advisory Board and developing subgroups of youth, elders, family members, and traditional consultants. Restoring Balance to Our Youth will focus on universal prevention strategies for Native youth, with strong linkages to existing behavioral resources for intervention and postvention services as needed. Youth will benefit from expanded traditional cultural interventions including: weekly traditional services, talking circles, a year-long preparation for a Rites of Passage Ceremony, Lakota Yuwipi Ceremony, a California Bear Dance, and a culturally focused Youth Workforce Development Camp. IHC planning efforts will augment and expand on existing collaborations among organizations and develop improved data collection and tracking procedures for suicide and substance use prevention. It is anticipated that up to 30 youth will be served by the project.
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| SM063485-02 | Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley | San Jose | CA | $199,471 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Restoring Balance to Our Youth project at Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley (IHC) will prevent and reduce suicide and substance use and abuse among urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth age 10-24 by offering traditional and cultural programs and activities that serve a demonstrated need for reducing the impact of trauma and promoting mental health among young people in the local urban tribal community. In the midst of national news-making events in Santa Clara County and disturbing upward trends in suicide rates nationwide, a project team based in the Traditional Healing Program at IHC will work to: 1) prevent and reduce suicidal behavior and substance abuse, 2) reduce the impact of trauma, and 3) promote mental health among AI/AN youth. During Year 1, IHC will dedicate planning efforts to expanding on a recent youth mental health readiness assessment and integrate an array of culturally-based traditional services, focusing on strengthening positive cultural identity and self-understanding. Planning efforts will include expanding an established Community Advisory Board and developing subgroups of youth, elders, family members, and traditional consultants. Restoring Balance to Our Youth will focus on universal prevention strategies for Native youth, with strong linkages to existing behavioral resources for intervention and postvention services as needed. Youth will benefit from expanded traditional cultural interventions including: weekly traditional services, talking circles, a year-long preparation for a Rites of Passage Ceremony, Lakota Yuwipi Ceremony, a California Bear Dance, and a culturally focused Youth Workforce Development Camp. IHC planning efforts will augment and expand on existing collaborations among organizations and develop improved data collection and tracking procedures for suicide and substance use prevention. It is anticipated that up to 30 youth will be served by the project.
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| SM063486-01 | Unalakleet Village Council | Unalakleet | AK | $148,363 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Native Village of Unalakleet (NVU) is located on Norton Sound, on the eastern shores of the Bering Sea, at the mouth of the Unalakleet River. NVU has over 1,500 enrolled tribal members, with a year-round residential population of 704. 17% of these residents (120) are between the ages of 10-19. The Alaska Native Epidemiology Center at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage reported the Norton Sound Tribal Region with the highest rate of suicide (81.6 per 100,000 population) anywhere within Alaska for the 2002-2011 time period, more than six times that of U.S. Whites (74.5:12.6), almost four times higher than the state average (74.5:19.6) and twice the average mortality rate for all AN (74.5:39.7). NVU's Native Connections (NC) proposal is for the development of a Tier 1 (Universal) project for a suicide prevention approach. Cultural prevention strategies will be developed for all young people in the tribal community. The NC Project will work to develop a broad-base of community support for at-risk youth to strengthen resiliencies and to impart a sense of cultural belonging. NC will engage youth and adults in gatherings and talking circles for planning and strategizing, to help bridge the gap between the generations. The strategies developed for implementation during Years 2-5 will build upon the traditional wisdom and cultural knowledge of Elders within the community through shared activities. The overall Prevention Project goal is to develop balance and well-being for Youth by strengthening cultural ties with Elders and other community members in order to impart a sense of place and belonging, to solidly anchor young individuals within the larger tribal community. The project objective is to build youth resiliencies by reinforcing traditional Alaska Native values such as unconditional love, generosity, respect, patience, kindness and caring.
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| SM063486-02 | Unalakleet Village Council | Unalakleet | AK | $141,573 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Native Village of Unalakleet (NVU) is located on Norton Sound, on the eastern shores of the Bering Sea, at the mouth of the Unalakleet River. NVU has over 1,500 enrolled tribal members, with a year-round residential population of 704. 17% of these residents (120) are between the ages of 10-19. The Alaska Native Epidemiology Center at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage reported the Norton Sound Tribal Region with the highest rate of suicide (81.6 per 100,000 population) anywhere within Alaska for the 2002-2011 time period, more than six times that of U.S. Whites (74.5:12.6), almost four times higher than the state average (74.5:19.6) and twice the average mortality rate for all AN (74.5:39.7). NVU's Native Connections (NC) proposal is for the development of a Tier 1 (Universal) project for a suicide prevention approach. Cultural prevention strategies will be developed for all young people in the tribal community. The NC Project will work to develop a broad-base of community support for at-risk youth to strengthen resiliencies and to impart a sense of cultural belonging. NC will engage youth and adults in gatherings and talking circles for planning and strategizing, to help bridge the gap between the generations. The strategies developed for implementation during Years 2-5 will build upon the traditional wisdom and cultural knowledge of Elders within the community through shared activities. The overall Prevention Project goal is to develop balance and well-being for Youth by strengthening cultural ties with Elders and other community members in order to impart a sense of place and belonging, to solidly anchor young individuals within the larger tribal community. The project objective is to build youth resiliencies by reinforcing traditional Alaska Native values such as unconditional love, generosity, respect, patience, kindness and caring.
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| SM063487-01 | Mescalero Apache Tribal Council | Mescalero | NM | $166,991 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections Among local community data sources, from 2010 to present, the Mescalero Apache Tribe community reported 94 total calls regarding suicide reported to Law Enforcement BIA in Mescalero. Two of those were suicide completions, 56 suicide attempts and 36 suicide threats. There exists a gap in the tribe's current services to actively and directly address our youth and engage them in depression awareness and suicide prevention. Giving credence to the current environment of services available at MAT, the vision of the MAT Suicide Prevention Program is to keep suicide prevention alive and vigilance sharp using a school-based system as our anchor. th The proposed project will be managed by the Mescalero Apache Tribal Human Services Department, which is important because it directly and consistently interfaces with our target audience at high risk of substance abuse and suicidal behavior. Year 1 activities will primarily involve Tier 1 (universal prevention strategies), as MAT will integrate the SOS Signs of Suicide Prevention Program (SOS) into the curriculum of the Mescalero Apache School (housing both middle and high school students) and will therefore reach all young people enrolled in the community school system. Year 2 will utilize Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3, as our work will collaborate, refer and partner with the MAT Behavioral Health Program that provides therapy, counseling, and family group meetings for higher risk young people and their families. Collectively, Project Staff have deep and long-standing experience supporting MAT programs - they have worked in substance abuse clinical services, cultural programs, and health education. The Mescalero Apache Tribe is committed to providing the services and resources necessary to make our people healthier and happier. From tribal leadership to the Program staff, we pledge our best work, enthusiasm and dedication to improving the lives of tribal youth.
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| SM063487-02 | Mescalero Apache Tribal Council | Mescalero | NM | $166,991 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections Among local community data sources, from 2010 to present, the Mescalero Apache Tribe community reported 94 total calls regarding suicide reported to Law Enforcement BIA in Mescalero. Two of those were suicide completions, 56 suicide attempts and 36 suicide threats. There exists a gap in the tribe's current services to actively and directly address our youth and engage them in depression awareness and suicide prevention. Giving credence to the current environment of services available at MAT, the vision of the MAT Suicide Prevention Program is to keep suicide prevention alive and vigilance sharp using a school-based system as our anchor. The proposed project will be managed by the Mescalero Apache Tribal Human Services Department, which is important because it directly and consistently interfaces with our target audience at high risk of substance abuse and suicidal behavior. Year 1 activities will primarily involve Tier 1 (universal prevention strategies), as MAT will integrate the SOS Signs of Suicide Prevention Program (SOS) into the curriculum of the Mescalero Apache School (housing both middle and high school students) and will therefore reach all young people enrolled in the community school system. Year 2 will utilize Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3, as our work will collaborate, refer and partner with the MAT Behavioral Health Program that provides therapy, counseling, and family group meetings for higher risk young people and their families. Collectively, Project Staff have deep and long-standing experience supporting MAT programs - they have worked in substance abuse clinical services, cultural programs, and health education. The Mescalero Apache Tribe is committed to providing the services and resources necessary to make our people healthier and happier. From tribal leadership to the Program staff, we pledge our best work, enthusiasm and dedication to improving the lives of tribal youth.
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| SM063489-01 | Sinte Gleska University | Mission | SD | $200,000 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi (TGKP)System of Care on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, serves the Sicangu Lakota Oyate, known as the Rosebud Sioux. TGKP will add a Native Connections Project that will work with the TGKP partner organizations to address suicide and substance use/abuse prevention. The vision that drives efforts on the Rosebud are collaborative in nature and include a commitment to stronger, healthier and happier families, and to a strong and vibrant tribal nation. TGKP's Goal for a Native Connections program is twofold: 1) to design a cohesive and collaborative approach to mental health, 2) to institutionalize the approach so that all tribal and other agencies acting on the Rosebud on behalf of the Sicangu Oyate work to reduce substance use/abuse among all residents so that an improved environment leads to a reduction in mental and physical illness, especially a reduction in suicide completions, attempts, and ideation among youth and young adults ages 5-24. TGKP will work with the assigned SAMHSA Government Project Officer (GPO) and the Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center staff to complete the required Community Needs Assessment, a Community Readiness Assessment, and create a Community Resource/Asset Map. Using the information from the Assessments, TGKP expects to propose Native Connections activities in all three Prevention Tiers beyond Year 1: Tier 1 Universal Prevention Strategies, Tier 2 Selective Prevention Strategies, and Tier 3 Indicated Prevention Strategies
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| SM063489-02 | Sinte Gleska University | Mission | SD | $200,000 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi (TGKP)System of Care on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, serves the Sicangu Lakota Oyate, known as the Rosebud Sioux. TGKP will add a Native Connections Project that will work with the TGKP partner organizations to address suicide and substance use/abuse prevention. The vision that drives efforts on the Rosebud are collaborative in nature and include a commitment to stronger, healthier and happier families, and to a strong and vibrant tribal nation. TGKP's Goal for a Native Connections program is twofold: 1) to design a cohesive and collaborative approach to mental health, 2) to institutionalize the approach so that all tribal and other agencies acting on the Rosebud on behalf of the Sicangu Oyate work to reduce substance use/abuse among all residents so that an improved environment leads to a reduction in mental and physical illness, especially a reduction in suicide completions, attempts, and ideation among youth and young adults ages 5-24. TGKP will work with the assigned SAMHSA Government Project Officer (GPO) and the Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center staff to complete the required Community Needs Assessment, a Community Readiness Assessment, and create a Community Resource/Asset Map. Using the information from the Assessments, TGKP expects to propose Native Connections activities in all three Prevention Tiers beyond Year 1: Tier 1 Universal Prevention Strategies, Tier 2 Selective Prevention Strategies, and Tier 3 Indicated Prevention Strategies
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| SM063490-01 | Navajo Nation Division of Health | Window Rock | AZ | $200,000 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Building Communities of Hope Project (BCOH) aims to reduce the prevalence and incidence rates of suicidal behavior and substance use disorders on the Navajo Nation (NN) by primarily focusing on the youth population (ages 10-24). The BCOH promotes self-esteem, culture, and resiliency and is a leadership-initiated project developed to respond to the increasing number of suicides on the NN. Since the inception of the BCOH, members of the Interdisciplinary Team cited service gaps and issues in developing a comprehensive and effective follow-up system because of poor infrastructure, inadequate or no funding, and minimal to non- existent protocols and laws to assist individuals with suicidal behavior. Additional work groups were developed focusing on the following areas. 1) Crisis Response/Postvention Team. This team will develop a standard protocol for responding to crises at all major Navajo communities and engage service providers to comply with the protocols developed. 2) Media Team. This team will work on social media, website development, printing and publishing posters, billboards, and flyers to bring awareness to the entire Navajo Nation. 3) Suicide Surveillance System Team. This team will implement the Navajo Suicide Surveillance Instrument at all communities with crisis response/postvention teams intact. The BCOH will encounter approximately half of the Navajo youth population in a yearly setting (23,125 youth) through the universal prevention approach. Additionally, the BCOH will focus on the selected prevention approach at the following Navajo agency locations: Eastern, Northern, and Ft. Defiance, with a target of 2,000 youth. Finally, data collected will provide a listing of individuals with suicide attempts and substance use/misuse through an indicated prevention approach. The BCOH will follow-up with 100% of all individuals referred for suicidal behavior to ensure individual and family members receive services.
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| SM063490-02 | Navajo Nation Division of Health | Window Rock | AZ | $200,000 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Building Communities of Hope Project (BCOH) aims to reduce the prevalence and incidence rates of suicidal behavior and substance use disorders on the Navajo Nation (NN) by primarily focusing on the youth population (ages 10-24). The BCOH promotes self-esteem, culture, and resiliency and is a leadership-initiated project developed to respond to the increasing number of suicides on the NN. Since the inception of the BCOH, members of the Interdisciplinary Team cited service gaps and issues in developing a comprehensive and effective follow-up system because of poor infrastructure, inadequate or no funding, and minimal to non- existent protocols and laws to assist individuals with suicidal behavior. Additional work groups were developed focusing on the following areas. 1) Crisis Response/Postvention Team. This team will develop a standard protocol for responding to crises at all major Navajo communities and engage service providers to comply with the protocols developed. 2) Media Team. This team will work on social media, website development, printing and publishing posters, billboards, and flyers to bring awareness to the entire Navajo Nation. 3) Suicide Surveillance System Team. This team will implement the Navajo Suicide Surveillance Instrument at all communities with crisis response/postvention teams intact. The BCOH will encounter approximately half of the Navajo youth population in a yearly setting (23,125 youth) through the universal prevention approach. Additionally, the BCOH will focus on the selected prevention approach at the following Navajo agency locations: Eastern, Northern, and Ft. Defiance, with a target of 2,000 youth. Finally, data collected will provide a listing of individuals with suicide attempts and substance use/misuse through an indicated prevention approach. The BCOH will follow-up with 100% of all individuals referred for suicidal behavior to ensure individual and family members receive services.
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| SM063491-01 | Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. | Anchorage | AK | $1,000,000 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections In order to address the impacts of trauma, lack of mental health supports, youth suicidal behavior, and substance abuse in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. (CITC) proposes Mat-Su Native Connections - Youth Suicide Prevention & Recovery. In concert with our other Tribal partners in the Matanuska-Susitna region, Knik Tribal Council and Chickaloon Native Village, and our community partners, including the Mat- Su Health Foundation, Mat-Su Borough School Board, and youth homelessness service provider My House, CITC will conduct a year-long assessment and planning process, followed by four years of indicated services implementation as designated by the community-driven plan of action. This project to prevent suicide and substance abuse, reduce the impacts of trauma, and promote mental health among Alaska Native and American Indian youth up to and including 24 years of age will extend CITC's time-tested expert services to new populations and geographic areas, in partnership with the other Tribal service providers in our region. Our action plan and corresponding evaluation strategies will proceed in terms of three related goals, namely, to: 1. Assess community needs, readiness, and resources to address suicidal behavior, substance abuse, trauma, and mental health problems among Alaska Native and American Indian youth; 2. Build capacity and infrastructure to meet these needs and to create opportunities to prevent suicidal behavior, substance abuse, and trauma among local Alaska Native and American Indian youth, as well as promote their mental health, and 3. Implement and improve comprehensive services and supports to prevent suicidal behavior and substance abuse, reduce the impacts of trauma, and promote mental health among Alaska Native and American Indian youth and young adults of Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
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| SM063492-01 | Akiak Native Community | Akiak | AK | $123,127 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections There is a fundamental change occurring in Alaska's Yukon Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta that involves incorporation of traditional values and practices into prevention and treatment programs to help Yukon Kuskokwim Yup'ik people heal from mental health and/or substance abuse disorders. This process reflects the contemporary will of the Y-K people who are seeking traditional solutions to health and social problems that have become endemic in the region. The Yukon Kuskokwim village of Akiak is seeking to enhance its capabilities to respond to the expressed needs of the people by planning and implementing a culturally oriented Native Connections program based on traditional teachings, called "Calricaraq". Calricaraq, translated "helping families heal," is based on a curriculum grounded in the traditional values and ways of the Y-K Delta's Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska. The primary goal of this project will be to restore cultural pride in our young people, which will help reduce vulnerability to suicide. This formalized suicide prevention program will be the first of its kind in Akiak, and will establish a precedent that other communities will want to emulate. The key to our strategy is the promotion and teaching of our Yup'ik ways of life to young people through local cultural and subsistence activities led by Elders, and administered by local Alaska Native staff that will guide and teach our young people to live a healthy lifestyle, using the familiar surroundings of our land and culture. This way of life our people once knew and practiced, but moved away from, resulted in many of our health and social problems, including suicide, that we suffer from today. At the heart of this approach are holistic, culture-based and community-centered activities and services that are responsive to the needs of our Alaska Native families, and built on the community's strengths.
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| SM063492-02 | Akiak Native Community | Akiak | AK | $123,127 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections There is a fundamental change occurring in Alaska's Yukon Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta that involves incorporation of traditional values and practices into prevention and treatment programs to help Yukon Kuskokwim Yup'ik people heal from mental health and/or substance abuse disorders. This process reflects the contemporary will of the Y-K people who are seeking traditional solutions to health and social problems that have become endemic in the region. The Yukon Kuskokwim village of Akiak is seeking to enhance its capabilities to respond to the expressed needs of the people by planning and implementing a culturally oriented Native Connections program based on traditional teachings, called "Calricaraq". Calricaraq, translated "helping families heal," is based on a curriculum grounded in the traditional values and ways of the Y-K Delta's Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska. The primary goal of this project will be to restore cultural pride in our young people, which will help reduce vulnerability to suicide. This formalized suicide prevention program will be the first of its kind in Akiak, and will establish a precedent that other communities will want to emulate. The key to our strategy is the promotion and teaching of our Yup'ik ways of life to young people through local cultural and subsistence activities led by Elders, and administered by local Alaska Native staff that will guide and teach our young people to live a healthy lifestyle, using the familiar surroundings of our land and culture. This way of life our people once knew and practiced, but moved away from, resulted in many of our health and social problems, including suicide, that we suffer from today. At the heart of this approach are holistic, culture-based and community-centered activities and services that are responsive to the needs of our Alaska Native families, and built on the community's strengths.
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| SM063493-01 | Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center | Pendleton | OR | $200,000 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections Summary - The Yellowhawk Native Connections Project will support community-wide healing from historical trauma, increased social/emotional skills for young people up to and including age 24, parents, staff, and educators, the development of a Tribal Horse program to support wellness and recovery, the establishment of a community-wide suicide postvention plan, and increased screening to address substance abuse. Demographics and clinical characteristics - In the past three years, there have been 12 known suicide attempts by Native youth and one youth completed suicide. A study completed in 2009 found that 1 in 7 CTUIR tribal youth had attempted suicide in a 12-month period. Strategies/interventions Our proposed approach will include the use of the Gathering of Native Americans model, the development of a culturally based Tribal Horse program, the implementation of the Conscious Discipline (CD) model for social and emotional development, intensive suicide postvention training and community planning with the Connect Postvention program offered by NAMI New Hampshire, and the utilization of the Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for young people between the ages of 12 - 24 who receive care at YTHC. Goal 1 - To engage and mobilize the tribal community of the CTUIR in promoting healthy and empowered youth and families; Goal 2 -To build youth resilience by strengthening connections to tribal culture and traditions using animal-assisted and related cultural activities; Goal 3 - To strengthen the Tribe's ability to prevent underage substance use, childhood trauma, and suicide while working to support healing and recovery; Goal 4 -To increase the capacity of CTUIR tribal youth-serving agencies and tribal community peers in utilizing trauma-informed, evidence-based and tribal best practices; Goal 5 - To foster internal tribal capacity to do ongoing data collection and evaluation work Number served - The 725 youth, ages 0 to 24living in Um
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| SM063493-02 | Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center | Pendleton | OR | $200,000 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections Summary - The Yellowhawk Native Connections Project will support community-wide healing from historical trauma, increased social/emotional skills for young people up to and including age 24, parents, staff, and educators, the development of a Tribal Horse program to support wellness and recovery, the establishment of a community-wide suicide postvention plan, and increased screening to address substance abuse. Demographics and clinical characteristics - In the past three years, there have been 12 known suicide attempts by Native youth and one youth completed suicide. A study completed in 2009 found that 1 in 7 CTUIR tribal youth had attempted suicide in a 12-month period. Strategies/interventions Our proposed approach will include the use of the Gathering of Native Americans model, the development of a culturally based Tribal Horse program, the implementation of the Conscious Discipline (CD) model for social and emotional development, intensive suicide postvention training and community planning with the Connect Postvention program offered by NAMI New Hampshire, and the utilization of the Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for young people between the ages of 12 - 24 who receive care at YTHC. Goal 1 - To engage and mobilize the tribal community of the CTUIR in promoting healthy and empowered youth and families; Goal 2 -To build youth resilience by strengthening connections to tribal culture and traditions using animal-assisted and related cultural activities; Goal 3 - To strengthen the Tribe's ability to prevent underage substance use, childhood trauma, and suicide while working to support healing and recovery; Goal 4 -To increase the capacity of CTUIR tribal youth-serving agencies and tribal community peers in utilizing trauma-informed, evidence-based and tribal best practices; Goal 5 - To foster internal tribal capacity to do ongoing data collection and evaluation work Number served - The 725 youth, ages 0 to 24living in Um
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| SM063494-01 | Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate | Agency Village | SD | $199,095 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections As a member of the Great Plains association, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate plan to use the grant funding requested with this application to access all available resources to develop a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) in accordance with the Administrative Rules of South Dakota for CMHC (Article 46:20). Dakotah Pride is the only behavioral health program within the tribal government. As a AOD treatment center, its addiction counselors specialize in addiction treatment. For those clients needed individual mental health counseling, DPC schedules and transports these clients to the Indian Health Service clinic mental health program, which is staffed with two social workers who primarily do case management. Youth outpatient clients are also referred to the Indian Health Service for assessment and counseling. Neither service is sufficient to meet the needs of our tribal population age 24 and under as neither DPC or IHS have trained mental health (psycho) therapists on staff and/or who specialize in treating young children and youth. However, as we have a large target population with tribal students in several public school systems as well as two tribal schools, in 11 separate tribal communities/districts/housing developments, we know that to be effective and to develop and maintain tribal community support our plan will require all three tiers of suicide prevention services; with a focus on serving those of greatest need in relation to greatest risk indicators as our first priority.
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Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063476-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Lac Du Flambeau
State
WI
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
Mnwaadzid Miinwaa Wankiid, or Live Well and Live in Peace, is a culturally congruent approach focused on Native at-risk youth and families who are suffering from suicide ideation, behavioral health, and trauma. The project utilizes western evidence based approaches and tools that consist of CRA,QPR,PHQ-9, and Avatar. Year One of the project consists of developing protocols, practices, and policies that address service gaps, prevention, and crisis response with the sponsoring community in Lac du Flambeau. The project will build on their current infrastructure and engage the community through their Saving Lives Community Partnership Taskforce. The project will conduct community awareness on suicide prevention and behavioral health by hosting Community Readiness Training, and conducting the CRA on an annual basis in LDF. The project will conduct training using AVATAR Program within the local 7 school districts. Finally, the project will attend 12 community functions and conduct 778 suicide and behavioral health risk screenings using the PHQ-9. The project will collect the data from the various tools initially and work with the community and system partners through technical assistance to allow for sustainability and on-going data collection. The project will develop this model in LDF the first year and develop a plan to implement the model in at least 12 other tribal communities in the region for years 2-5. Years 2-5, the project will work with at least 12 tribal communities in the great lakes region on suicide and behavioral health prevention and early intervention. The project goal is to reduce suicide amongst AI youth and families' and increase early intervention and responses by identifying risk of youth prior to a crisis. Through the use of the tools the project will identify the number of at-risk youth in need of services, the percentage of follow-up on such referrals, and community social change.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$199,681
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063477-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Supai
State
AZ
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
Approximately 640 people live in our remote village, Supai, AZ, located in a slot canyon in the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The Havasupai people are a strong and resilient people, possessing deep cultural and familial roots with our home in the Grand Canyon. Historical injustices and limited educational and economic opportunities have had negative effects on our people. Many have preserved but some have turned to unhealthy coping strategies, abusing drugs and alcohol and attempting and carrying out suicide to block the psycho-social pain and intergenerational trauma. This pain is juxtaposed by the beauty and culture of our community. Substance use and substance abuse-related deaths have been increasing in our community over the past two decades. Prevention services and mental health and behavioral health services are inconsistent and often not available to those who need them. Through this project, we hope to conduct a community needs assessment, community readiness assessment, and create a community resource map to guide intervention development to decrease gaps in substance use and mental health services and increase mental health wellness among the Havasupai people.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$199,783
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063477-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Supai
State
AZ
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
Approximately 640 people live in our remote village, Supai, AZ, located in a slot canyon in the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The Havasupai people are a strong and resilient people, possessing deep cultural and familial roots with our home in the Grand Canyon. Historical injustices and limited educational and economic opportunities have had negative effects on our people. Many have preserved but some have turned to unhealthy coping strategies, abusing drugs and alcohol and attempting and carrying out suicide to block the psycho-social pain and intergenerational trauma. This pain is juxtaposed by the beauty and culture of our community. Substance use and substance abuse-related deaths have been increasing in our community over the past two decades. Prevention services and mental health and behavioral health services are inconsistent and often not available to those who need them. Through this project, we hope to conduct a community needs assessment, community readiness assessment, and create a community resource map to guide intervention development to decrease gaps in substance use and mental health services and increase mental health wellness among the Havasupai people.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063478-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Yakutat
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
Yakutat Community Health Center has created a behavioral health department as part of an initiative to deliver more integrated and comprehensive care within the community. This project will enable a Master's level Clinician to monitor and intervene when problem indicators reveal themselves as well as promote activities that build protective factors. The community of Yakutat's beginning is enriched with strong cultural ties going back thousands of years when it was a hub for trade among the American Indian and Alaska Native people. Today the population is on the decline and the economy is struggling. Many families are moving from the area in search of better socio-economic and educational opportunities. Although 2015 Census data estimates that the population claiming one race as AI/AN is 35.8%, the 2015 Yakutat School District for Native youth enrolled was 70%. This indicates that many Native families are choosing to remain within the community. This could be occurring for a number of reasons, including not wanting to leave the land from where their ancestors are from, to more dismal supposition like financial insecurity (up to 40% of the Yakutat population is considered LMI) and a lack of knowledge about how to safely navigate in the outside world. There are currently 216 youth ages 24 and under present in the community who could benefit from increasing direct and supportive services specific to youth. Over the course of a five-year period, it is estimated that 264 youth could be impacted. As illustrated in the body of the narrative, Native youth are more likely to attempt suicide, consume alcohol earlier on, and experience dating violence and/or sexual assault. These rates are much higher for Alaska. Strengthening services and increasing access and awareness will aid us in our overall goal of preventing and reducing suicidal behavior and substance abuse, reducing the impact of trauma, and promoting mental health among our young Native population up to age 24.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$199,936
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063478-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Yakutat
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
Yakutat Community Health Center has created a behavioral health department as part of an initiative to deliver more integrated and comprehensive care within the community. This project will enable a Master's level Clinician to monitor and intervene when problem indicators reveal themselves as well as promote activities that build protective factors. The community of Yakutat's beginning is enriched with strong cultural ties going back thousands of years when it was a hub for trade among the American Indian and Alaska Native people. Today the population is on the decline and the economy is struggling. Many families are moving from the area in search of better socio-economic and educational opportunities. Although 2015 Census data estimates that the population claiming one race as AI/AN is 35.8%, the 2015 Yakutat School District for Native youth enrolled was 70%. This indicates that many Native families are choosing to remain within the community. This could be occurring for a number of reasons, including not wanting to leave the land from where their ancestors are from, to more dismal supposition like financial insecurity (up to 40% of the Yakutat population is considered LMI) and a lack of knowledge about how to safely navigate in the outside world. There are currently 216 youth ages 24 and under present in the community who could benefit from increasing direct and supportive services specific to youth. Over the course of a five-year period, it is estimated that 264 youth could be impacted. As illustrated in the body of the narrative, Native youth are more likely to attempt suicide, consume alcohol earlier on, and experience dating violence and/or sexual assault. These rates are much higher for Alaska. Strengthening services and increasing access and awareness will aid us in our overall goal of preventing and reducing suicidal behavior and substance abuse, reducing the impact of trauma, and promoting mental health among our young Native population up to age 24.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$195,587
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063483-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Fort Totten
State
ND
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The purpose of the Spirit Lake Tribe Connections grant is to enhance and/or revise protocols to ensure that youth who are at high risk of suicide receive appropriate referrals, mental health services and follow-up services that will allow for preventing and reducing suicidal behavior and substance abuse and promote mental health among young people up to and including age 24. Goals to be achieved through collaborations and determined interventions: 1. Continue to educate our Tribal community that suicide is a public health problem that is preventable and provide suicide prevention related programs in all area schools. 2. Develop Memorandum of Understanding agreements with a broad spectrum of Tribal entities to generate greater and more effective attention to suicide prevention and a referral process. 3. Enhance strategies to reduce the stigma associated with participating in mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention services. 4. Develop postvention protocols that are in concert with our culture and beliefs. 5. Implement suicide prevention surveillance data collection and evaluation.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$195,587
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063483-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Fort Totten
State
ND
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The purpose of the Spirit Lake Tribe Connections grant is to enhance and/or revise protocols to ensure that youth who are at high risk of suicide receive appropriate referrals, mental health services and follow-up services that will allow for preventing and reducing suicidal behavior and substance abuse and promote mental health among young people up to and including age 24. Goals to be achieved through collaborations and determined interventions: 1. Continue to educate our Tribal community that suicide is a public health problem that is preventable and provide suicide prevention related programs in all area schools. 2. Develop Memorandum of Understanding agreements with a broad spectrum of Tribal entities to generate greater and more effective attention to suicide prevention and a referral process. 3. Enhance strategies to reduce the stigma associated with participating in mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention services. 4. Develop postvention protocols that are in concert with our culture and beliefs. 5. Implement suicide prevention surveillance data collection and evaluation.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063484-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Rapid City
State
SD
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
This project is titled Suicide Prevention. The project goals of this program is to prevent and reduce suicidal behavior and substance abuse, reduce the impact of trauma, and promote mental health among American Indian young people, up to and including age 24 years. Our target population will be those youth 24 years old and younger who are Native American and living on, or near, the Sioux reservation. This population will be at-risk of suicide attempts or substance abuse, or they may already have these issues. The number of people to be served annually will be 100 individuals, and 500 over the lifetime of this project. Project goals for year one are to develop the program with policies and procedures, as well as protocols. A diverse task force of community partners will lead the direction and development of this program. The ultimate goal is to reduce the suicide rates and substance abuse among our tribal youth. The project will use a collaboration of different evidenced based program, a prevention program, a treatment modality and an education program for our Suicide prevention, substance abuse prevention, addressing trauma, and mental health promotion. By using collaboration of programs, our community will benefit in numerous ways and we will be able to accommodate different learning types and several levels of wellness. It is our community's vision to provide our youth with the skills to become stable adults in all areas of their lives.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063484-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Rapid City
State
SD
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
This project is titled Suicide Prevention. The project goals of this program is to prevent and reduce suicidal behavior and substance abuse, reduce the impact of trauma, and promote mental health among American Indian young people, up to and including age 24 years. Our target population will be those youth 24 years old and younger who are Native American and living on, or near, the Sioux reservation. This population will be at-risk of suicide attempts or substance abuse, or they may already have these issues. The number of people to be served annually will be 100 individuals, and 500 over the lifetime of this project. Project goals for year one are to develop the program with policies and procedures, as well as protocols. A diverse task force of community partners will lead the direction and development of this program. The ultimate goal is to reduce the suicide rates and substance abuse among our tribal youth. The project will use a collaboration of different evidenced based program, a prevention program, a treatment modality and an education program for our Suicide prevention, substance abuse prevention, addressing trauma, and mental health promotion. By using collaboration of programs, our community will benefit in numerous ways and we will be able to accommodate different learning types and several levels of wellness. It is our community's vision to provide our youth with the skills to become stable adults in all areas of their lives.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063485-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
San Jose
State
CA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Restoring Balance to Our Youth project at Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley (IHC) will prevent and reduce suicide and substance use and abuse among urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth age 10-24 by offering traditional and cultural programs and activities that serve a demonstrated need for reducing the impact of trauma and promoting mental health among young people in the local urban tribal community. In the midst of national news-making events in Santa Clara County and disturbing upward trends in suicide rates nationwide, a project team based in the Traditional Healing Program at IHC will work to: 1) prevent and reduce suicidal behavior and substance abuse, 2) reduce the impact of trauma, and 3) promote mental health among AI/AN youth. During Year 1, IHC will dedicate planning efforts to expanding on a recent youth mental health readiness assessment and integrate an array of culturally-based traditional services, focusing on strengthening positive cultural identity and self-understanding. Planning efforts will include expanding an established Community Advisory Board and developing subgroups of youth, elders, family members, and traditional consultants. Restoring Balance to Our Youth will focus on universal prevention strategies for Native youth, with strong linkages to existing behavioral resources for intervention and postvention services as needed. Youth will benefit from expanded traditional cultural interventions including: weekly traditional services, talking circles, a year-long preparation for a Rites of Passage Ceremony, Lakota Yuwipi Ceremony, a California Bear Dance, and a culturally focused Youth Workforce Development Camp. IHC planning efforts will augment and expand on existing collaborations among organizations and develop improved data collection and tracking procedures for suicide and substance use prevention. It is anticipated that up to 30 youth will be served by the project.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$199,471
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063485-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
San Jose
State
CA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Restoring Balance to Our Youth project at Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley (IHC) will prevent and reduce suicide and substance use and abuse among urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth age 10-24 by offering traditional and cultural programs and activities that serve a demonstrated need for reducing the impact of trauma and promoting mental health among young people in the local urban tribal community. In the midst of national news-making events in Santa Clara County and disturbing upward trends in suicide rates nationwide, a project team based in the Traditional Healing Program at IHC will work to: 1) prevent and reduce suicidal behavior and substance abuse, 2) reduce the impact of trauma, and 3) promote mental health among AI/AN youth. During Year 1, IHC will dedicate planning efforts to expanding on a recent youth mental health readiness assessment and integrate an array of culturally-based traditional services, focusing on strengthening positive cultural identity and self-understanding. Planning efforts will include expanding an established Community Advisory Board and developing subgroups of youth, elders, family members, and traditional consultants. Restoring Balance to Our Youth will focus on universal prevention strategies for Native youth, with strong linkages to existing behavioral resources for intervention and postvention services as needed. Youth will benefit from expanded traditional cultural interventions including: weekly traditional services, talking circles, a year-long preparation for a Rites of Passage Ceremony, Lakota Yuwipi Ceremony, a California Bear Dance, and a culturally focused Youth Workforce Development Camp. IHC planning efforts will augment and expand on existing collaborations among organizations and develop improved data collection and tracking procedures for suicide and substance use prevention. It is anticipated that up to 30 youth will be served by the project.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$148,363
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063486-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Unalakleet
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Native Village of Unalakleet (NVU) is located on Norton Sound, on the eastern shores of the Bering Sea, at the mouth of the Unalakleet River. NVU has over 1,500 enrolled tribal members, with a year-round residential population of 704. 17% of these residents (120) are between the ages of 10-19. The Alaska Native Epidemiology Center at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage reported the Norton Sound Tribal Region with the highest rate of suicide (81.6 per 100,000 population) anywhere within Alaska for the 2002-2011 time period, more than six times that of U.S. Whites (74.5:12.6), almost four times higher than the state average (74.5:19.6) and twice the average mortality rate for all AN (74.5:39.7). NVU's Native Connections (NC) proposal is for the development of a Tier 1 (Universal) project for a suicide prevention approach. Cultural prevention strategies will be developed for all young people in the tribal community. The NC Project will work to develop a broad-base of community support for at-risk youth to strengthen resiliencies and to impart a sense of cultural belonging. NC will engage youth and adults in gatherings and talking circles for planning and strategizing, to help bridge the gap between the generations. The strategies developed for implementation during Years 2-5 will build upon the traditional wisdom and cultural knowledge of Elders within the community through shared activities. The overall Prevention Project goal is to develop balance and well-being for Youth by strengthening cultural ties with Elders and other community members in order to impart a sense of place and belonging, to solidly anchor young individuals within the larger tribal community. The project objective is to build youth resiliencies by reinforcing traditional Alaska Native values such as unconditional love, generosity, respect, patience, kindness and caring.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$141,573
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063486-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Unalakleet
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Native Village of Unalakleet (NVU) is located on Norton Sound, on the eastern shores of the Bering Sea, at the mouth of the Unalakleet River. NVU has over 1,500 enrolled tribal members, with a year-round residential population of 704. 17% of these residents (120) are between the ages of 10-19. The Alaska Native Epidemiology Center at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage reported the Norton Sound Tribal Region with the highest rate of suicide (81.6 per 100,000 population) anywhere within Alaska for the 2002-2011 time period, more than six times that of U.S. Whites (74.5:12.6), almost four times higher than the state average (74.5:19.6) and twice the average mortality rate for all AN (74.5:39.7). NVU's Native Connections (NC) proposal is for the development of a Tier 1 (Universal) project for a suicide prevention approach. Cultural prevention strategies will be developed for all young people in the tribal community. The NC Project will work to develop a broad-base of community support for at-risk youth to strengthen resiliencies and to impart a sense of cultural belonging. NC will engage youth and adults in gatherings and talking circles for planning and strategizing, to help bridge the gap between the generations. The strategies developed for implementation during Years 2-5 will build upon the traditional wisdom and cultural knowledge of Elders within the community through shared activities. The overall Prevention Project goal is to develop balance and well-being for Youth by strengthening cultural ties with Elders and other community members in order to impart a sense of place and belonging, to solidly anchor young individuals within the larger tribal community. The project objective is to build youth resiliencies by reinforcing traditional Alaska Native values such as unconditional love, generosity, respect, patience, kindness and caring.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$166,991
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063487-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Mescalero
State
NM
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
Among local community data sources, from 2010 to present, the Mescalero Apache Tribe community reported 94 total calls regarding suicide reported to Law Enforcement BIA in Mescalero. Two of those were suicide completions, 56 suicide attempts and 36 suicide threats. There exists a gap in the tribe's current services to actively and directly address our youth and engage them in depression awareness and suicide prevention. Giving credence to the current environment of services available at MAT, the vision of the MAT Suicide Prevention Program is to keep suicide prevention alive and vigilance sharp using a school-based system as our anchor. th The proposed project will be managed by the Mescalero Apache Tribal Human Services Department, which is important because it directly and consistently interfaces with our target audience at high risk of substance abuse and suicidal behavior. Year 1 activities will primarily involve Tier 1 (universal prevention strategies), as MAT will integrate the SOS Signs of Suicide Prevention Program (SOS) into the curriculum of the Mescalero Apache School (housing both middle and high school students) and will therefore reach all young people enrolled in the community school system. Year 2 will utilize Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3, as our work will collaborate, refer and partner with the MAT Behavioral Health Program that provides therapy, counseling, and family group meetings for higher risk young people and their families. Collectively, Project Staff have deep and long-standing experience supporting MAT programs - they have worked in substance abuse clinical services, cultural programs, and health education. The Mescalero Apache Tribe is committed to providing the services and resources necessary to make our people healthier and happier. From tribal leadership to the Program staff, we pledge our best work, enthusiasm and dedication to improving the lives of tribal youth.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$166,991
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063487-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Mescalero
State
NM
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
Among local community data sources, from 2010 to present, the Mescalero Apache Tribe community reported 94 total calls regarding suicide reported to Law Enforcement BIA in Mescalero. Two of those were suicide completions, 56 suicide attempts and 36 suicide threats. There exists a gap in the tribe's current services to actively and directly address our youth and engage them in depression awareness and suicide prevention. Giving credence to the current environment of services available at MAT, the vision of the MAT Suicide Prevention Program is to keep suicide prevention alive and vigilance sharp using a school-based system as our anchor. The proposed project will be managed by the Mescalero Apache Tribal Human Services Department, which is important because it directly and consistently interfaces with our target audience at high risk of substance abuse and suicidal behavior. Year 1 activities will primarily involve Tier 1 (universal prevention strategies), as MAT will integrate the SOS Signs of Suicide Prevention Program (SOS) into the curriculum of the Mescalero Apache School (housing both middle and high school students) and will therefore reach all young people enrolled in the community school system. Year 2 will utilize Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3, as our work will collaborate, refer and partner with the MAT Behavioral Health Program that provides therapy, counseling, and family group meetings for higher risk young people and their families. Collectively, Project Staff have deep and long-standing experience supporting MAT programs - they have worked in substance abuse clinical services, cultural programs, and health education. The Mescalero Apache Tribe is committed to providing the services and resources necessary to make our people healthier and happier. From tribal leadership to the Program staff, we pledge our best work, enthusiasm and dedication to improving the lives of tribal youth.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063489-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Mission
State
SD
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi (TGKP)System of Care on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, serves the Sicangu Lakota Oyate, known as the Rosebud Sioux. TGKP will add a Native Connections Project that will work with the TGKP partner organizations to address suicide and substance use/abuse prevention. The vision that drives efforts on the Rosebud are collaborative in nature and include a commitment to stronger, healthier and happier families, and to a strong and vibrant tribal nation. TGKP's Goal for a Native Connections program is twofold: 1) to design a cohesive and collaborative approach to mental health, 2) to institutionalize the approach so that all tribal and other agencies acting on the Rosebud on behalf of the Sicangu Oyate work to reduce substance use/abuse among all residents so that an improved environment leads to a reduction in mental and physical illness, especially a reduction in suicide completions, attempts, and ideation among youth and young adults ages 5-24. TGKP will work with the assigned SAMHSA Government Project Officer (GPO) and the Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center staff to complete the required Community Needs Assessment, a Community Readiness Assessment, and create a Community Resource/Asset Map. Using the information from the Assessments, TGKP expects to propose Native Connections activities in all three Prevention Tiers beyond Year 1: Tier 1 Universal Prevention Strategies, Tier 2 Selective Prevention Strategies, and Tier 3 Indicated Prevention Strategies... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063489-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Mission
State
SD
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi (TGKP)System of Care on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, serves the Sicangu Lakota Oyate, known as the Rosebud Sioux. TGKP will add a Native Connections Project that will work with the TGKP partner organizations to address suicide and substance use/abuse prevention. The vision that drives efforts on the Rosebud are collaborative in nature and include a commitment to stronger, healthier and happier families, and to a strong and vibrant tribal nation. TGKP's Goal for a Native Connections program is twofold: 1) to design a cohesive and collaborative approach to mental health, 2) to institutionalize the approach so that all tribal and other agencies acting on the Rosebud on behalf of the Sicangu Oyate work to reduce substance use/abuse among all residents so that an improved environment leads to a reduction in mental and physical illness, especially a reduction in suicide completions, attempts, and ideation among youth and young adults ages 5-24. TGKP will work with the assigned SAMHSA Government Project Officer (GPO) and the Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center staff to complete the required Community Needs Assessment, a Community Readiness Assessment, and create a Community Resource/Asset Map. Using the information from the Assessments, TGKP expects to propose Native Connections activities in all three Prevention Tiers beyond Year 1: Tier 1 Universal Prevention Strategies, Tier 2 Selective Prevention Strategies, and Tier 3 Indicated Prevention Strategies... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063490-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Window Rock
State
AZ
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Building Communities of Hope Project (BCOH) aims to reduce the prevalence and incidence rates of suicidal behavior and substance use disorders on the Navajo Nation (NN) by primarily focusing on the youth population (ages 10-24). The BCOH promotes self-esteem, culture, and resiliency and is a leadership-initiated project developed to respond to the increasing number of suicides on the NN. Since the inception of the BCOH, members of the Interdisciplinary Team cited service gaps and issues in developing a comprehensive and effective follow-up system because of poor infrastructure, inadequate or no funding, and minimal to non- existent protocols and laws to assist individuals with suicidal behavior. Additional work groups were developed focusing on the following areas. 1) Crisis Response/Postvention Team. This team will develop a standard protocol for responding to crises at all major Navajo communities and engage service providers to comply with the protocols developed. 2) Media Team. This team will work on social media, website development, printing and publishing posters, billboards, and flyers to bring awareness to the entire Navajo Nation. 3) Suicide Surveillance System Team. This team will implement the Navajo Suicide Surveillance Instrument at all communities with crisis response/postvention teams intact. The BCOH will encounter approximately half of the Navajo youth population in a yearly setting (23,125 youth) through the universal prevention approach. Additionally, the BCOH will focus on the selected prevention approach at the following Navajo agency locations: Eastern, Northern, and Ft. Defiance, with a target of 2,000 youth. Finally, data collected will provide a listing of individuals with suicide attempts and substance use/misuse through an indicated prevention approach. The BCOH will follow-up with 100% of all individuals referred for suicidal behavior to ensure individual and family members receive services.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063490-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Window Rock
State
AZ
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Building Communities of Hope Project (BCOH) aims to reduce the prevalence and incidence rates of suicidal behavior and substance use disorders on the Navajo Nation (NN) by primarily focusing on the youth population (ages 10-24). The BCOH promotes self-esteem, culture, and resiliency and is a leadership-initiated project developed to respond to the increasing number of suicides on the NN. Since the inception of the BCOH, members of the Interdisciplinary Team cited service gaps and issues in developing a comprehensive and effective follow-up system because of poor infrastructure, inadequate or no funding, and minimal to non- existent protocols and laws to assist individuals with suicidal behavior. Additional work groups were developed focusing on the following areas. 1) Crisis Response/Postvention Team. This team will develop a standard protocol for responding to crises at all major Navajo communities and engage service providers to comply with the protocols developed. 2) Media Team. This team will work on social media, website development, printing and publishing posters, billboards, and flyers to bring awareness to the entire Navajo Nation. 3) Suicide Surveillance System Team. This team will implement the Navajo Suicide Surveillance Instrument at all communities with crisis response/postvention teams intact. The BCOH will encounter approximately half of the Navajo youth population in a yearly setting (23,125 youth) through the universal prevention approach. Additionally, the BCOH will focus on the selected prevention approach at the following Navajo agency locations: Eastern, Northern, and Ft. Defiance, with a target of 2,000 youth. Finally, data collected will provide a listing of individuals with suicide attempts and substance use/misuse through an indicated prevention approach. The BCOH will follow-up with 100% of all individuals referred for suicidal behavior to ensure individual and family members receive services.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$1,000,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063491-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Anchorage
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
In order to address the impacts of trauma, lack of mental health supports, youth suicidal behavior, and substance abuse in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. (CITC) proposes Mat-Su Native Connections - Youth Suicide Prevention & Recovery. In concert with our other Tribal partners in the Matanuska-Susitna region, Knik Tribal Council and Chickaloon Native Village, and our community partners, including the Mat- Su Health Foundation, Mat-Su Borough School Board, and youth homelessness service provider My House, CITC will conduct a year-long assessment and planning process, followed by four years of indicated services implementation as designated by the community-driven plan of action. This project to prevent suicide and substance abuse, reduce the impacts of trauma, and promote mental health among Alaska Native and American Indian youth up to and including 24 years of age will extend CITC's time-tested expert services to new populations and geographic areas, in partnership with the other Tribal service providers in our region. Our action plan and corresponding evaluation strategies will proceed in terms of three related goals, namely, to: 1. Assess community needs, readiness, and resources to address suicidal behavior, substance abuse, trauma, and mental health problems among Alaska Native and American Indian youth; 2. Build capacity and infrastructure to meet these needs and to create opportunities to prevent suicidal behavior, substance abuse, and trauma among local Alaska Native and American Indian youth, as well as promote their mental health, and 3. Implement and improve comprehensive services and supports to prevent suicidal behavior and substance abuse, reduce the impacts of trauma, and promote mental health among Alaska Native and American Indian youth and young adults of Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Borough.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$123,127
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063492-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Akiak
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
There is a fundamental change occurring in Alaska's Yukon Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta that involves incorporation of traditional values and practices into prevention and treatment programs to help Yukon Kuskokwim Yup'ik people heal from mental health and/or substance abuse disorders. This process reflects the contemporary will of the Y-K people who are seeking traditional solutions to health and social problems that have become endemic in the region. The Yukon Kuskokwim village of Akiak is seeking to enhance its capabilities to respond to the expressed needs of the people by planning and implementing a culturally oriented Native Connections program based on traditional teachings, called "Calricaraq". Calricaraq, translated "helping families heal," is based on a curriculum grounded in the traditional values and ways of the Y-K Delta's Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska. The primary goal of this project will be to restore cultural pride in our young people, which will help reduce vulnerability to suicide. This formalized suicide prevention program will be the first of its kind in Akiak, and will establish a precedent that other communities will want to emulate. The key to our strategy is the promotion and teaching of our Yup'ik ways of life to young people through local cultural and subsistence activities led by Elders, and administered by local Alaska Native staff that will guide and teach our young people to live a healthy lifestyle, using the familiar surroundings of our land and culture. This way of life our people once knew and practiced, but moved away from, resulted in many of our health and social problems, including suicide, that we suffer from today. At the heart of this approach are holistic, culture-based and community-centered activities and services that are responsive to the needs of our Alaska Native families, and built on the community's strengths.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$123,127
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063492-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Akiak
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
There is a fundamental change occurring in Alaska's Yukon Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta that involves incorporation of traditional values and practices into prevention and treatment programs to help Yukon Kuskokwim Yup'ik people heal from mental health and/or substance abuse disorders. This process reflects the contemporary will of the Y-K people who are seeking traditional solutions to health and social problems that have become endemic in the region. The Yukon Kuskokwim village of Akiak is seeking to enhance its capabilities to respond to the expressed needs of the people by planning and implementing a culturally oriented Native Connections program based on traditional teachings, called "Calricaraq". Calricaraq, translated "helping families heal," is based on a curriculum grounded in the traditional values and ways of the Y-K Delta's Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska. The primary goal of this project will be to restore cultural pride in our young people, which will help reduce vulnerability to suicide. This formalized suicide prevention program will be the first of its kind in Akiak, and will establish a precedent that other communities will want to emulate. The key to our strategy is the promotion and teaching of our Yup'ik ways of life to young people through local cultural and subsistence activities led by Elders, and administered by local Alaska Native staff that will guide and teach our young people to live a healthy lifestyle, using the familiar surroundings of our land and culture. This way of life our people once knew and practiced, but moved away from, resulted in many of our health and social problems, including suicide, that we suffer from today. At the heart of this approach are holistic, culture-based and community-centered activities and services that are responsive to the needs of our Alaska Native families, and built on the community's strengths.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063493-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Pendleton
State
OR
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
Summary - The Yellowhawk Native Connections Project will support community-wide healing from historical trauma, increased social/emotional skills for young people up to and including age 24, parents, staff, and educators, the development of a Tribal Horse program to support wellness and recovery, the establishment of a community-wide suicide postvention plan, and increased screening to address substance abuse. Demographics and clinical characteristics - In the past three years, there have been 12 known suicide attempts by Native youth and one youth completed suicide. A study completed in 2009 found that 1 in 7 CTUIR tribal youth had attempted suicide in a 12-month period. Strategies/interventions Our proposed approach will include the use of the Gathering of Native Americans model, the development of a culturally based Tribal Horse program, the implementation of the Conscious Discipline (CD) model for social and emotional development, intensive suicide postvention training and community planning with the Connect Postvention program offered by NAMI New Hampshire, and the utilization of the Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for young people between the ages of 12 - 24 who receive care at YTHC. Goal 1 - To engage and mobilize the tribal community of the CTUIR in promoting healthy and empowered youth and families; Goal 2 -To build youth resilience by strengthening connections to tribal culture and traditions using animal-assisted and related cultural activities; Goal 3 - To strengthen the Tribe's ability to prevent underage substance use, childhood trauma, and suicide while working to support healing and recovery; Goal 4 -To increase the capacity of CTUIR tribal youth-serving agencies and tribal community peers in utilizing trauma-informed, evidence-based and tribal best practices; Goal 5 - To foster internal tribal capacity to do ongoing data collection and evaluation work Number served - The 725 youth, ages 0 to 24living in Um... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063493-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Pendleton
State
OR
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
Summary - The Yellowhawk Native Connections Project will support community-wide healing from historical trauma, increased social/emotional skills for young people up to and including age 24, parents, staff, and educators, the development of a Tribal Horse program to support wellness and recovery, the establishment of a community-wide suicide postvention plan, and increased screening to address substance abuse. Demographics and clinical characteristics - In the past three years, there have been 12 known suicide attempts by Native youth and one youth completed suicide. A study completed in 2009 found that 1 in 7 CTUIR tribal youth had attempted suicide in a 12-month period. Strategies/interventions Our proposed approach will include the use of the Gathering of Native Americans model, the development of a culturally based Tribal Horse program, the implementation of the Conscious Discipline (CD) model for social and emotional development, intensive suicide postvention training and community planning with the Connect Postvention program offered by NAMI New Hampshire, and the utilization of the Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for young people between the ages of 12 - 24 who receive care at YTHC. Goal 1 - To engage and mobilize the tribal community of the CTUIR in promoting healthy and empowered youth and families; Goal 2 -To build youth resilience by strengthening connections to tribal culture and traditions using animal-assisted and related cultural activities; Goal 3 - To strengthen the Tribe's ability to prevent underage substance use, childhood trauma, and suicide while working to support healing and recovery; Goal 4 -To increase the capacity of CTUIR tribal youth-serving agencies and tribal community peers in utilizing trauma-informed, evidence-based and tribal best practices; Goal 5 - To foster internal tribal capacity to do ongoing data collection and evaluation work Number served - The 725 youth, ages 0 to 24living in Um... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$199,095
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063494-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Agency Village
State
SD
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
As a member of the Great Plains association, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate plan to use the grant funding requested with this application to access all available resources to develop a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) in accordance with the Administrative Rules of South Dakota for CMHC (Article 46:20). Dakotah Pride is the only behavioral health program within the tribal government. As a AOD treatment center, its addiction counselors specialize in addiction treatment. For those clients needed individual mental health counseling, DPC schedules and transports these clients to the Indian Health Service clinic mental health program, which is staffed with two social workers who primarily do case management. Youth outpatient clients are also referred to the Indian Health Service for assessment and counseling. Neither service is sufficient to meet the needs of our tribal population age 24 and under as neither DPC or IHS have trained mental health (psycho) therapists on staff and/or who specialize in treating young children and youth. However, as we have a large target population with tribal students in several public school systems as well as two tribal schools, in 11 separate tribal communities/districts/housing developments, we know that to be effective and to develop and maintain tribal community support our plan will require all three tiers of suicide prevention services; with a focus on serving those of greatest need in relation to greatest risk indicators as our first priority.... View More
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