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| SM063494-02 | Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate | Agency Village | SD | $199,830 | 2017 | 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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| SM063495-01 | Blossom Sustainable Development | Southampton | NY | $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 purpose of the Hakame Clubhouse is to implement a culturally appropriate community change model among the Long Island Native American community, specifically the Shinnecock Indian Nation to strengthen the capacity of tribal and local youth, health, and wellness organizations to delivery services. This model serves to remove barriers to care by providing a point of entry and helping youth and families to navigate the behavioral health system. "Hakame" means welcome in the Shinnecock Language and is the vision for welcoming youth into the clubhouse where they will access to a vast network of behavioral health services including direct and indirect prevention services, wrap around support services, peer recovery group, and referrals to treatment. This Clubhouse will take the view that the community has the strengths and resiliencies within it reduce substance abuse and mental health challenges and activities will be informed by community knowledge. The Clubhouse's role is to help facilitate the community change model.
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| SM063495-02 | Blossom Sustainable Development | Southampton | NY | $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 purpose of the Hakame Clubhouse is to implement a culturally appropriate community change model among the Long Island Native American community, specifically the Shinnecock Indian Nation to strengthen the capacity of tribal and local youth, health, and wellness organizations to delivery services. This model serves to remove barriers to care by providing a point of entry and helping youth and families to navigate the behavioral health system. "Hakame" means welcome in the Shinnecock Language and is the vision for welcoming youth into the clubhouse where they will access to a vast network of behavioral health services including direct and indirect prevention services, wrap around support services, peer recovery group, and referrals to treatment. This Clubhouse will take the view that the community has the strengths and resiliencies within it reduce substance abuse and mental health challenges and activities will be informed by community knowledge. The Clubhouse's role is to help facilitate the community change model.
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| SM063496-01 | Skokomish Indian Tribe | Skokomish Nation | WA | $184,297 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Skokomish Tribe is ready to implement a Substance Abuse / Misuse and Suicide Prevention program to improve the long-term health of our youth and our community. On June 21, 2016, the Health Clinic and Behavioral Health are hosting the first Suicide Prevention Workshop. Staff, youth and the community are invited to this first step in a very important program. The Tribe has a great team to assist with this critical project including staff from all of the departments that work with youth., it was determined to hire a skilled contractor/facilitator who would have the time to focus on many of the tasks for the first year. This facilitator will also assist with training and evaluation in the following years. If the Tribe receives this grant, it will provide funding that will help implement Council's goal to have a culturally based and addicted free community. This will allow the youth to adopt healthy behaviors ensuring they live a healthier life in the future. The Behavioral Health staff are already working hosting youth programming that has provided skills in recognizing their emotions for younger kids and how to say "No" if you are being pressured to take drugs or alcohol. This program is unique because we will hire three part-time students to assist with the Media Outreach to their peers and the community. There will also be three part-time adults, including an Elder, who will assist in recruiting others to participate in this much needed program. To have a great team and creativity of the youth, the Tribe is confident that we will meet our goal to have a healthier community that is substance free and will prevent any future suicides for our region.
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| SM063496-02 | Skokomish Indian Tribe | Skokomish Nation | WA | $161,962 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Skokomish Tribe is ready to implement a Substance Abuse / Misuse and Suicide Prevention program to improve the long-term health of our youth and our community. On June 21, 2016, the Health Clinic and Behavioral Health are hosting the first Suicide Prevention Workshop. Staff, youth and the community are invited to this first step in a very important program. The Tribe has a great team to assist with this critical project including staff from all of the departments that work with youth., it was determined to hire a skilled contractor/facilitator who would have the time to focus on many of the tasks for the first year. This facilitator will also assist with training and evaluation in the following years. If the Tribe receives this grant, it will provide funding that will help implement Council's goal to have a culturally based and addicted free community. This will allow the youth to adopt healthy behaviors ensuring they live a healthier life in the future. The Behavioral Health staff are already working hosting youth programming that has provided skills in recognizing their emotions for younger kids and how to say "No" if you are being pressured to take drugs or alcohol. This program is unique because we will hire three part-time students to assist with the Media Outreach to their peers and the community. There will also be three part-time adults, including an Elder, who will assist in recruiting others to participate in this much needed program. To have a great team and creativity of the youth, the Tribe is confident that we will meet our goal to have a healthier community that is substance free and will prevent any future suicides for our region.
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| SM063498-01 | Pascua Yaqui Tribe | Tucson | 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 Pascua Yaqui Tribe through the Health Services' Department Sewa Uusim Program submits this proposal for the Pascua Yaqui Native Connections Project (PYNCP) Cooperative Agreement. PYNCP will utilize funds to provide mental health promotion, community awareness and to a develop a group of youth and adult peer and community facilitators to provide the EB models to create awareness of the issues and resources available to address the factors which result in high risk behaviors for youth 12 to 24. The targeted issues and behaviors include youth who are dealing with trauma, depression, substance use, suicide idealizations. PYNCP will create a community wide media awareness campaign which will result in over 2,000 youth taking part in awareness events and activities. PYNCP will implement Tier One, Universal Prevention Strategies principles and interventions tribal wide. Funds will use SAMHSA, Theory of Change model to create a tribal program focused on cultural prevention services. In year one PYNCP will; work with the GPO and the Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center to develop a plan to support the tribe's work which will be completed and approved by the GPO by the end of Year 1, which will lay out the plan for years 2-5.Year one will; Conduct a Service Delivery Systems analysis, a Community Needs and Community Readiness Assessment, and create a Community Resource /Asset Map that addresses suicide prevention and substance use and misuse prevention. Year 1 will also: Develop or revise protocols to ensure that youth who are at high risk for suicide, including those who attempt suicide, and use or misuse substances, receive follow-up services to ease their transition into treatment.
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| SM063498-02 | Pascua Yaqui Tribe | Tucson | 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 Pascua Yaqui Tribe through the Health Services' Department Sewa Uusim Program submits this proposal for the Pascua Yaqui Native Connections Project (PYNCP) Cooperative Agreement. PYNCP will utilize funds to provide mental health promotion, community awareness and to a develop a group of youth and adult peer and community facilitators to provide the EB models to create awareness of the issues and resources available to address the factors which result in high risk behaviors for youth 12 to 24. The targeted issues and behaviors include youth who are dealing with trauma, depression, substance use, suicide idealizations. PYNCP will create a community wide media awareness campaign which will result in over 2,000 youth taking part in awareness events and activities. PYNCP will implement Tier One, Universal Prevention Strategies principles and interventions tribal wide. Funds will use SAMHSA, Theory of Change model to create a tribal program focused on cultural prevention services. In year one PYNCP will; work with the GPO and the Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center to develop a plan to support the tribe's work which will be completed and approved by the GPO by the end of Year 1, which will lay out the plan for years 2-5.Year one will; Conduct a Service Delivery Systems analysis, a Community Needs and Community Readiness Assessment, and create a Community Resource /Asset Map that addresses suicide prevention and substance use and misuse prevention. Year 1 will also: Develop or revise protocols to ensure that youth who are at high risk for suicide, including those who attempt suicide, and use or misuse substances, receive follow-up services to ease their transition into treatment.
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| SM063500-01 | Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board | Albuquerque | NM | $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 Intergenerational Intertribal (I2 ) Positive Solutions for Native Health, aims to decrease suicide and substance misuse among American Indian youth, through age 24, whom have been impacted by trauma. Through the adaptation (year 2) and pilot implementation (year 3) of the evidence-based "Storytelling for Empowerment" intervention, youth in three consortium Tribes of the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, Inc., will improve cognitive decision making, achieve positive cultural identity, and strengthen resiliency. By honoring "who they are" youth will be equipped to make informed decisions to prevent substance misuse and promote positive mental health outcomes. This project will be guided by an intergenerational community advisory panel (ICAP), made up of recognized community leaders, advocates and professionals, including both youth and adults, in each participating community. I2 Positive Solutions for Native Health will prioritize both Tier I and Tier II prevention strategies to maximize its reach and impact in the participating communities. It is anticipated that these universal prevention strategies will reach approximately 750 AI youth age 10-24, and family members annually. The primary Tier II strategy (Storytelling for Empowerment Intervention), will focus on providing a culturally-centered intervention to at least 10 at-risk young people in each participating tribal community in project years 4 and 5. In addition to benefiting participating youth, the project will also produce a culturally adapted Storytelling PowerBook that can be utilized beyond the 5-year funding period, and shared with other tribal communities in our region. Project staff will also mobilize SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five-step planning process, to guide the selection, implementation, and evaluation of effective, culturally appropriate, and sustainable prevention activities throughout all five project years.
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| SM063500-02 | Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board | Albuquerque | NM | $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 Intergenerational Intertribal (I2 ) Positive Solutions for Native Health, aims to decrease suicide and substance misuse among American Indian youth, through age 24, whom have been impacted by trauma. Through the adaptation (year 2) and pilot implementation (year 3) of the evidence-based "Storytelling for Empowerment" intervention, youth in three consortium Tribes of the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, Inc., will improve cognitive decision making, achieve positive cultural identity, and strengthen resiliency. By honoring "who they are" youth will be equipped to make informed decisions to prevent substance misuse and promote positive mental health outcomes. This project will be guided by an intergenerational community advisory panel (ICAP), made up of recognized community leaders, advocates and professionals, including both youth and adults, in each participating community. I2 Positive Solutions for Native Health will prioritize both Tier I and Tier II prevention strategies to maximize its reach and impact in the participating communities. It is anticipated that these universal prevention strategies will reach approximately 750 AI youth age 10-24, and family members annually. The primary Tier II strategy (Storytelling for Empowerment Intervention), will focus on providing a culturally-centered intervention to at least 10 at-risk young people in each participating tribal community in project years 4 and 5. In addition to benefiting participating youth, the project will also produce a culturally adapted Storytelling PowerBook that can be utilized beyond the 5-year funding period, and shared with other tribal communities in our region. Project staff will also mobilize SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five-step planning process, to guide the selection, implementation, and evaluation of effective, culturally appropriate, and sustainable prevention activities throughout all five project years.
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| SM063502-01 | Northern Arapaho Tribe | Fort Washakie | WY | $200,000 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2017/07/11
Short Title: Native Connections The Northern Arapaho Tribe (NAT) resides on the Wind River Indian Reservation (WRIR), in rural Wyoming (WY). Multi- generational trauma has negatively impacted the teaching of Native American culture within the NAT. The NAT is one of the largest tribes in the Billings Indian Health Services (IHS) area but has one of the lowest per capita funding. Fremont County, WY, where WRIR is located, has a five (5) year aggregated suicide rate of 28/100,000 (WY Vital Records, 2009-2013). WY (23.2) has the highest five (5) - year rate of suicide in the country (12.2/ CDC, 2008-2012). On WRIR, loss of life has been normalized, leading to a suicide pact among youth in the 1990's, which ended in 8 lives lost, further adding to the existing trauma. The purpose of the Northern Arapaho Native Connections Suicide Prevention Initiative, is to establish a sustainable protocol for Northern Arapaho suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention which tracks culturally proven practices and incorporates cultural adaptations of evidence-based practices while improving readiness and establishing a community-driven action plan. This purpose is addressed within the two (2) central objectives and potential collaboration activities through which culturally relevant teachings, address youth resilience, cultural parenting, and training of gatekeepers and healthcare providers. To address the complexity of suicide, this proposal emphasizes cooperation and collaboration among community partners and engaging in a larger community effort to understand and prevent suicide with a long-term goal of policy and protocol development. The program seeks to address following objectives: 1) Identify areas of focus to improve readiness for suicide prevention on WRIR, specifically among Arapaho tribal youth ages 10-24 and their families. 2) Develop and implement a suicide prevention strategic plan for the tribe to include practices shown to be effective at improving resiliency among tribal members.
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| SM063503-01 | Kenaitze Indian Tribe | Kenai | AK | $199,960 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Dena'ina Yinihugheltani Project seeks to reduce suicide rates among Alaska Natives and American Indian youth living in the Central Kenai Peninsula Borough by increasing tribal capacity and enhancing collaboration. We will serve in a leadership role to guide our partners and collaborators, catalyze community outreach efforts, and foster a highly coordinated response to suicide prevention in our tribal communities throughout the region. We will ultimately impact at-risk youth and young adults of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe, the Alaska Native and American Indian communities of the Central Kenai Peninsula, and our region as a whole, who are at-risk, have experienced mental illness and/or substance abuse, or who have been impacted by this significant issue. Through highly structured and multi-faceted efforts our region will determine its readiness and capacity; it will bring together strong and consistent dialogue across multiple community organizations to ensure its success; it will effectively be data and outcome driven in design and dissemination utilizing multiple quantifiable sources; and it will be highly structured in design and method as its moves from the development of universal prevention and mental health promotion to service continuums that are specific to need in the areas of health, mental health and substance abuse within the target population. And it will do so within the framework of the Dena'ina history of culture, respect, values, and traditions. It will occupy a place that is currently void of adequate resources and services. In no small measure for youth and young adults it will reduce the occurrence of suicide, reduce the incidence of substance abuse, provide a system of care and resources within the public health continuum to address mental illness, substance use, trauma, and justice challenges through a trauma informed approach in practice and care.
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| SM063503-02 | Kenaitze Indian Tribe | Kenai | AK | $188,258 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Dena'ina Yinihugheltani Project seeks to reduce suicide rates among Alaska Natives and American Indian youth living in the Central Kenai Peninsula Borough by increasing tribal capacity and enhancing collaboration. We will serve in a leadership role to guide our partners and collaborators, catalyze community outreach efforts, and foster a highly coordinated response to suicide prevention in our tribal communities throughout the region. We will ultimately impact at-risk youth and young adults of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe, the Alaska Native and American Indian communities of the Central Kenai Peninsula, and our region as a whole, who are at-risk, have experienced mental illness and/or substance abuse, or who have been impacted by this significant issue. Through highly structured and multi-faceted efforts our region will determine its readiness and capacity; it will bring together strong and consistent dialogue across multiple community organizations to ensure its success; it will effectively be data and outcome driven in design and dissemination utilizing multiple quantifiable sources; and it will be highly structured in design and method as its moves from the development of universal prevention and mental health promotion to service continuums that are specific to need in the areas of health, mental health and substance abuse within the target population. And it will do so within the framework of the Dena'ina history of culture, respect, values, and traditions. It will occupy a place that is currently void of adequate resources and services. In no small measure for youth and young adults it will reduce the occurrence of suicide, reduce the incidence of substance abuse, provide a system of care and resources within the public health continuum to address mental illness, substance use, trauma, and justice challenges through a trauma informed approach in practice and care.
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| SM063505-01 | Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe | Mount Pleasant | MI | $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 To the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe continues its determination to address its fears regarding substance abuse and suicide. Engaging community knowledge and experiences, the Tribe will assess and enhance its ability to prevent, monitor and address the issues of suicide and substance abuse in the community, with a focus on youth age 24 and under, and their families. Addressing trauma will be a primary component of our strategy. An Advisory Circle, Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Edbaamjigejik (the Native way of life-the one who leads) that includes multiple community members, employees and youth represented by the Tribal Youth Council will oversee and guide the process. This will include the completion of Service Delivery System Analysis, a Community Needs Assessment, Community Readiness Assessment and Community Resource/Asset map in year one of the grant with period revaluation of community readiness in subsequent years. The Tribe will further develop a system to track and monitor statistics related to suicide, substance, trauma and other important health and safety issues. Through the grant, communication and collaboration between Saginaw Chippewa youth-serving programs and services will result. Project evaluation will be conducted by an Evaluation team led by Michigan State University 's Native American Institute and will build the capacity of the Tribe to conduct its own evaluations through a "grow your own" approach, with training and skill-building expertise also provided by the Institute.
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| SM063505-02 | Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe | Mount Pleasant | MI | $198,969 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections To the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe continues its determination to address its fears regarding substance abuse and suicide. Engaging community knowledge and experiences, the Tribe will assess and enhance its ability to prevent, monitor and address the issues of suicide and substance abuse in the community, with a focus on youth age 24 and under, and their families. Addressing trauma will be a primary component of our strategy. An Advisory Circle, Anishnaabe Bimaadiziwin Edbaamjigejik (the Native way of life-the one who leads) that includes multiple community members, employees and youth represented by the Tribal Youth Council will oversee and guide the process. This will include the completion of Service Delivery System Analysis, a Community Needs Assessment, Community Readiness Assessment and Community Resource/Asset map in year one of the grant with period revaluation of community readiness in subsequent years. The Tribe will further develop a system to track and monitor statistics related to suicide, substance, trauma and other important health and safety issues. Through the grant, communication and collaboration between Saginaw Chippewa youth-serving programs and services will result. Project evaluation will be conducted by an Evaluation team led by Michigan State University 's Native American Institute and will build the capacity of the Tribe to conduct its own evaluations through a "grow your own" approach, with training and skill-building expertise also provided by the Institute.
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| SM063506-01 | Riverside-San Bernardino County Ind Hlth | Banning | CA | $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 Riverside San-Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc. (RSBCIHI) is a tribal health care consortium that serves nine (9) tribes and two (2) urban AI/AN communities in Southern California. The goal of our project is to expand our current screening efforts to screen all of our patients, age 10 years of age and older, for depression, suicide ideation, alcohol use, and domestic/intimate partner violence. This project will enable us to screen an additional 4,474 more patients each year, including 1,428 (31.9%) more youth and young adults between the ages of 10 to 25. All patients who screen positive for any problem will receive treatment and/or referral services from one of our medical clinics and/or our behavioral health department. Our service area is home to 45,300 AI/AN people, and we have 31,908 registered patients. Forty- nine percent (49%) of our community members live below the poverty level, with family incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Suicide rates are rising among our youth. In the past few years, we have lost several youths to suicide, and at least one suicide became a cluster. Our behavioral health department served 1,322 clients in 2015, and of those clients, 1,122 (84.9%) reported having suicidal thoughts at least once during the past year, with 594 (44.9%) of those clients having suicidal thoughts at least once during the past month. We have specifically chosen to apply for this funding because it will enable us to 1) screen all of our patients for depression, suicide ideation, and other problems, and 2) provide us with the resources to develop suicide intervention protocols, suicide attempt follow-up protocols, and suicide postvention protocols for our entire organization. Our project will not only help us to save lives, it will also enable us to identify people who need help early, before their problems become severe, and offer them immediate help to reduce their suffering.
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| SM063507-01 | Akiachak Native Community | Akiachak | AK | $95,401 | 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 cultural loss, mental health and/or substance abuse disorders. The Yukon Kuskokwim village of Akiachak 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 Akiachak, 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, built on the community's strengths. Only through this method can our Y-K Delta community heal from the distress our people experience. The community of Akiachak is the target site, but we anticipate that neighboring villages will want to follow our lead as we progress in restoring healthy ways
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| SM063507-02 | Akiachak Native Community | Akiachak | AK | $95,401 | 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 cultural loss, mental health and/or substance abuse disorders. The Yukon Kuskokwim village of Akiachak 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 Akiachak, 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, built on the community's strengths. Only through this method can our Y-K Delta community heal from the distress our people experience. The community of Akiachak is the target site, but we anticipate that neighboring villages will want to follow our lead as we progress in restoring healthy ways
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| SM063508-01 | United American Indian Involvement, Inc. | Los Angeles | 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 United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII) will utilize SAMHSA Native Connections funding to build an integrated and community-driven approach that will address suicide and substance abuse prevention. UAII serves the second largest AI/AN population in the United States that includes an inter-tribal community representing approximately 125 federally recognized tribes. Similar to multiple AI/AN communities throughout the country, alcohol and substance abuse continues to have a devastating effect. During 2014 in LAC, 60% of youth suicides had a documented mental health diagnosis and 20% were receiving mental health services at the time of death. Of increasing significance is the prevalence of bullying, and in particular, various types of cyber- bullying, and the correlation between cyberbullying and recent suicides. In Los Angeles County, of the youth who died by suicide in 2014, 50% had reported being a victim of bullying. UAII's primary strategy is to build an integrated and community-driven approach to addressing youth suicide and substance abuse prevention that involves multiple systems of client engagement. The ultimate goal is to provide a culturally appropriate, comprehensive and coordinated system of care that addresses the complex needs of AI/AN youth who are, or may be at-risk for suicidal behavior, those who are in the early process of alcohol and substance use experimentation or abuse, and those who have experienced early childhood traumatic experiences. UAII's proposed approach for this project includes: I) Increase agency capacity to provide outreach and disseminate information related to substance abuse and suicide prevention 2) Develop policies and protocols for a comprehensive and integrated service delivery system of care, and 3) Expand capacity to meet the needs of at-risk populations for suicide and substance abuse.
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| SM063453-01 | Makah Tribe | Neah Bay | WA | $998,839 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Hiodasuba Initiative: Native Connections for Makah Youth project will lead a collective, community-based, culturally grounded effort to increase access, use, and efficacy of prevention, screening, and treatment services for youth at risk for substance abuse, overdose, suicide and serious mental illness. We will initially focus on known gaps in mental health promotion, screening, and treatment. We will work in partnership with local agencies and programs to develop a strong referral and follow-up process, with policies and procedures that support sustainable coordination, communication and collaboration of services and supports. This project will include ongoing collaboration between our Sophie Trettevick Indian Health Center (STIHC) and our community. We will establish an ongoing process for clients and the general community to help recognize additional needs and potential solutions related to substance abuse and suicide prevention. We will also develop an evaluation plan that includes baseline data, ongoing evaluation of both process and outcomes, and quality improvement methods to act on data and continually adapt services to meet needs. During year 1, we hope to engage at least 10 youth under the age of 25 in our efforts to develop a plan for each prevention tier for years 2-5. Tier 1 activities will reach out to all of the approximately 600 residents of our small community who are under 25 years of age, and to their families. Tier 2 activities will aim for early identification of youth who suffer from substance abuse, have thoughts of self-harm or suicide, or have specific risk factors such as depression or anxiety; based on a recent school survey this may exceed 17% of middle- and high-school aged children. Tier 3 will focus on youth who have a diagnosed substance abuse problem or have attempted suicide.
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| SM063454-01 | Lummi Indian Business Council | Bellingham | WA | $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 Lummi Nation Native Connections Project aims to leverage the relationships and the infrastructure developed through the Lummi System of Care Initiative and Expansion to address critically unmet needs for substance abuse and suicide prevention among our Tribes nearly 900 youth ages 10 through 24 years. Our Tribe has made significant gains in developing and delivering children's mental health services and mental health promotion and now we seek to focus on addressing gaps and disconnects between youth and the resources available to them that build strengths and resilience and reduce their risk for substance misuse and suicide. Through a Lummi community-driven process, our project seeks to accomplish the following goals: 1) community mobilization for wellness and readiness assessment, 2) expansion of the Lummi Nation System of Care Initiative to include a focus on youth substance misuse and suicide prevention, 3) community adaptation and mobilization of SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to identify or develop universal, selective and indicated strategies and outcomes for youth 10 to 24 years residing on the Lummi Nation reservation, , 4) development and delivery of community-based strategies continuity of care and postvention, 5) development of mobile technologies for youth substance misuse and suicide prevention utilizing Tribal Watch, a smartphone surveillance and community health education tool application, 6) development and implementation of local data collection and performance measurement procedures to assess outcomes of our youth substance use disorder and suicide prevention services and mental health promotion efforts. Our vision is to grow our Lummi Nation youth strong like the cedar with clear purpose and place among our people today.
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| SM063454-02 | Lummi Indian Business Council | Bellingham | WA | $199,956 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Lummi Nation Native Connections Project aims to leverage the relationships and the infrastructure developed through the Lummi System of Care Initiative and Expansion to address critically unmet needs for substance abuse and suicide prevention among our Tribes nearly 900 youth ages 10 through 24 years. Our Tribe has made significant gains in developing and delivering children's mental health services and mental health promotion and now we seek to focus on addressing gaps and disconnects between youth and the resources available to them that build strengths and resilience and reduce their risk for substance misuse and suicide. Through a Lummi community-driven process, our project seeks to accomplish the following goals: 1) community mobilization for wellness and readiness assessment, 2) expansion of the Lummi Nation System of Care Initiative to include a focus on youth substance misuse and suicide prevention, 3) community adaptation and mobilization of SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to identify or develop universal, selective and indicated strategies and outcomes for youth 10 to 24 years residing on the Lummi Nation reservation, , 4) development and delivery of community-based strategies continuity of care and postvention, 5) development of mobile technologies for youth substance misuse and suicide prevention utilizing Tribal Watch, a smartphone surveillance and community health education tool application, 6) development and implementation of local data collection and performance measurement procedures to assess outcomes of our youth substance use disorder and suicide prevention services and mental health promotion efforts. Our vision is to grow our Lummi Nation youth strong like the cedar with clear purpose and place among our people today.
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| SM063455-01 | United Indian Health Services, Inc. | Arcata | 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 United Indian Health Services, Inc. (UIHS) Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Project will serve American Indians ages 10-24 living in Northwestern California who are at high risk for suicide and substance abuse. Efforts will include developing an integrated service system amongst local providers plus educating the community about suicide and substance abuse in order to build the community's capacity to support tribal youth and their families. Project goals include: 1) Implement Year 1 activities such as establishing at least twelve collaborative partnerships to implement grant activities, conduct preliminary community assessments, develop policy and procedures that promote coordination across youth-serving organizations, involve community members in the effort, and develop a plan for Years 2 through 5 of the grant; 2) Create effective systems and tools that support evaluation activities such as collection, analysis and reporting of performance, mental health, and prevention measures as well as complete a local evaluability assessment and periodic local performance assessments; 3) Continue to collaborate with at least three partners throughout the grant in order to establish and maintain an integrated infrastructure and effective protocols for serving tribal youth who are at high risk for suicide and substance abuse; 4) Educate the community and build commitment to supporting tribal youth by coordinating an Intertribal Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Summit during each year of the grant. UIHS, established in 1970, is a tribal health organization that serves more than 10,000 American Indians within Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. The Behavioral Health Department will be administering the Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Project.
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| SM063455-02 | United Indian Health Services, Inc. | Arcata | CA | $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 United Indian Health Services, Inc. (UIHS) Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Project will serve American Indians ages 10-24 living in Northwestern California who are at high risk for suicide and substance abuse. Efforts will include developing an integrated service system amongst local providers plus educating the community about suicide and substance abuse in order to build the community's capacity to support tribal youth and their families. Project goals include: 1) Implement Year 1 activities such as establishing at least twelve collaborative partnerships to implement grant activities, conduct preliminary community assessments, develop policy and procedures that promote coordination across youth-serving organizations, involve community members in the effort, and develop a plan for Years 2 through 5 of the grant; 2) Create effective systems and tools that support evaluation activities such as collection, analysis and reporting of performance, mental health, and prevention measures as well as complete a local evaluability assessment and periodic local performance assessments; 3) Continue to collaborate with at least three partners throughout the grant in order to establish and maintain an integrated infrastructure and effective protocols for serving tribal youth who are at high risk for suicide and substance abuse; 4) Educate the community and build commitment to supporting tribal youth by coordinating an Intertribal Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Summit during each year of the grant. UIHS, established in 1970, is a tribal health organization that serves more than 10,000 American Indians within Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. The Behavioral Health Department will be administering the Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Project.
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| SM063456-01 | Mt. Sanford Tribal Consortium | Gakona | AK | $199,967 | 2016 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Mt. Sanford Tribal Consortium is a tribal health consortium that represents the Mentasta Traditional Tribe and the Cheesh'na Tribe Tribal Council. Behavioral and mental health supports are limited in our communities, which represent over 200 tribal members. We are currently supported by a single itinerant behavioral health worker from the Copper River Native Association. This is not enough. The SAMHSA Native Connections opportunity provides the resources to create a broad scale community plan that uses our own strengths to strengthen our youth. In Year I, we will accomplish the following goals in order to create culturally appropriate, tribally designed suicide and substance abuse prevention programming in years 2-5 of the grant program. GOAL 1: A community-created prevention program action plan will be completed and approved by the SAMHSA Grant Program Officer. GOAL 2: Policies and procedures relating to suicide or substance abuse prevention and treatment will be reviewed, revised and/or created as needed. GOAL 3: Project staff capacity to both gather and analyze quality data from clients and program initiatives will increase 100%. Accomplishing these goals is essential for many reasons. The suicide rate amongst Alaska Natives has increased to the highest suicide rate per capita in the country. Suicide in our Alaska Native communities has become "the norm". While we battle with the loss of our children, our youth seem to accept suicide as a solution to immediate problems rather than seeking long-term solutions. Last year there were two youth suicides, one in Mentasta, and one in Chistochina. Research shows that strong cultural identification makes adolescents less vulnerable to risk factors for drug use and more able to benefit from protective factors than adolescents who lack identification. We set our intention to help our youth identify with our traditional culture so they may grow strong and steady on the earth.
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| SM063456-02 | Mt. Sanford Tribal Consortium | Gakona | AK | $199,967 | 2017 | SM-16-010 | ||||
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Title: Native Connections
Project Period: 2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
Short Title: Native Connections The Mt. Sanford Tribal Consortium is a tribal health consortium that represents the Mentasta Traditional Tribe and the Cheesh'na Tribe Tribal Council. Behavioral and mental health supports are limited in our communities, which represent over 200 tribal members. We are currently supported by a single itinerant behavioral health worker from the Copper River Native Association. This is not enough. The SAMHSA Native Connections opportunity provides the resources to create a broad scale community plan that uses our own strengths to strengthen our youth. In Year I, we will accomplish the following goals in order to create culturally appropriate, tribally designed suicide and substance abuse prevention programming in years 2-5 of the grant program. GOAL 1: A community-created prevention program action plan will be completed and approved by the SAMHSA Grant Program Officer. GOAL 2: Policies and procedures relating to suicide or substance abuse prevention and treatment will be reviewed, revised and/or created as needed. GOAL 3: Project staff capacity to both gather and analyze quality data from clients and program initiatives will increase 100%. Accomplishing these goals is essential for many reasons. The suicide rate amongst Alaska Natives has increased to the highest suicide rate per capita in the country. Suicide in our Alaska Native communities has become "the norm". While we battle with the loss of our children, our youth seem to accept suicide as a solution to immediate problems rather than seeking long-term solutions. Last year there were two youth suicides, one in Mentasta, and one in Chistochina. Research shows that strong cultural identification makes adolescents less vulnerable to risk factors for drug use and more able to benefit from protective factors than adolescents who lack identification. We set our intention to help our youth identify with our traditional culture so they may grow strong and steady on the earth.
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Title
Native Connections
Amount
$199,830
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063494-02
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
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063495-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Southampton
State
NY
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The purpose of the Hakame Clubhouse is to implement a culturally appropriate community change model among the Long Island Native American community, specifically the Shinnecock Indian Nation to strengthen the capacity of tribal and local youth, health, and wellness organizations to delivery services. This model serves to remove barriers to care by providing a point of entry and helping youth and families to navigate the behavioral health system. "Hakame" means welcome in the Shinnecock Language and is the vision for welcoming youth into the clubhouse where they will access to a vast network of behavioral health services including direct and indirect prevention services, wrap around support services, peer recovery group, and referrals to treatment. This Clubhouse will take the view that the community has the strengths and resiliencies within it reduce substance abuse and mental health challenges and activities will be informed by community knowledge. The Clubhouse's role is to help facilitate the community change model.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063495-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Southampton
State
NY
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The purpose of the Hakame Clubhouse is to implement a culturally appropriate community change model among the Long Island Native American community, specifically the Shinnecock Indian Nation to strengthen the capacity of tribal and local youth, health, and wellness organizations to delivery services. This model serves to remove barriers to care by providing a point of entry and helping youth and families to navigate the behavioral health system. "Hakame" means welcome in the Shinnecock Language and is the vision for welcoming youth into the clubhouse where they will access to a vast network of behavioral health services including direct and indirect prevention services, wrap around support services, peer recovery group, and referrals to treatment. This Clubhouse will take the view that the community has the strengths and resiliencies within it reduce substance abuse and mental health challenges and activities will be informed by community knowledge. The Clubhouse's role is to help facilitate the community change model.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$184,297
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063496-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Skokomish Nation
State
WA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Skokomish Tribe is ready to implement a Substance Abuse / Misuse and Suicide Prevention program to improve the long-term health of our youth and our community. On June 21, 2016, the Health Clinic and Behavioral Health are hosting the first Suicide Prevention Workshop. Staff, youth and the community are invited to this first step in a very important program. The Tribe has a great team to assist with this critical project including staff from all of the departments that work with youth., it was determined to hire a skilled contractor/facilitator who would have the time to focus on many of the tasks for the first year. This facilitator will also assist with training and evaluation in the following years. If the Tribe receives this grant, it will provide funding that will help implement Council's goal to have a culturally based and addicted free community. This will allow the youth to adopt healthy behaviors ensuring they live a healthier life in the future. The Behavioral Health staff are already working hosting youth programming that has provided skills in recognizing their emotions for younger kids and how to say "No" if you are being pressured to take drugs or alcohol. This program is unique because we will hire three part-time students to assist with the Media Outreach to their peers and the community. There will also be three part-time adults, including an Elder, who will assist in recruiting others to participate in this much needed program. To have a great team and creativity of the youth, the Tribe is confident that we will meet our goal to have a healthier community that is substance free and will prevent any future suicides for our region.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$161,962
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063496-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Skokomish Nation
State
WA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Skokomish Tribe is ready to implement a Substance Abuse / Misuse and Suicide Prevention program to improve the long-term health of our youth and our community. On June 21, 2016, the Health Clinic and Behavioral Health are hosting the first Suicide Prevention Workshop. Staff, youth and the community are invited to this first step in a very important program. The Tribe has a great team to assist with this critical project including staff from all of the departments that work with youth., it was determined to hire a skilled contractor/facilitator who would have the time to focus on many of the tasks for the first year. This facilitator will also assist with training and evaluation in the following years. If the Tribe receives this grant, it will provide funding that will help implement Council's goal to have a culturally based and addicted free community. This will allow the youth to adopt healthy behaviors ensuring they live a healthier life in the future. The Behavioral Health staff are already working hosting youth programming that has provided skills in recognizing their emotions for younger kids and how to say "No" if you are being pressured to take drugs or alcohol. This program is unique because we will hire three part-time students to assist with the Media Outreach to their peers and the community. There will also be three part-time adults, including an Elder, who will assist in recruiting others to participate in this much needed program. To have a great team and creativity of the youth, the Tribe is confident that we will meet our goal to have a healthier community that is substance free and will prevent any future suicides for our region.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063498-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Tucson
State
AZ
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe through the Health Services' Department Sewa Uusim Program submits this proposal for the Pascua Yaqui Native Connections Project (PYNCP) Cooperative Agreement. PYNCP will utilize funds to provide mental health promotion, community awareness and to a develop a group of youth and adult peer and community facilitators to provide the EB models to create awareness of the issues and resources available to address the factors which result in high risk behaviors for youth 12 to 24. The targeted issues and behaviors include youth who are dealing with trauma, depression, substance use, suicide idealizations. PYNCP will create a community wide media awareness campaign which will result in over 2,000 youth taking part in awareness events and activities. PYNCP will implement Tier One, Universal Prevention Strategies principles and interventions tribal wide. Funds will use SAMHSA, Theory of Change model to create a tribal program focused on cultural prevention services. In year one PYNCP will; work with the GPO and the Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center to develop a plan to support the tribe's work which will be completed and approved by the GPO by the end of Year 1, which will lay out the plan for years 2-5.Year one will; Conduct a Service Delivery Systems analysis, a Community Needs and Community Readiness Assessment, and create a Community Resource /Asset Map that addresses suicide prevention and substance use and misuse prevention. Year 1 will also: Develop or revise protocols to ensure that youth who are at high risk for suicide, including those who attempt suicide, and use or misuse substances, receive follow-up services to ease their transition into treatment.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063498-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Tucson
State
AZ
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe through the Health Services' Department Sewa Uusim Program submits this proposal for the Pascua Yaqui Native Connections Project (PYNCP) Cooperative Agreement. PYNCP will utilize funds to provide mental health promotion, community awareness and to a develop a group of youth and adult peer and community facilitators to provide the EB models to create awareness of the issues and resources available to address the factors which result in high risk behaviors for youth 12 to 24. The targeted issues and behaviors include youth who are dealing with trauma, depression, substance use, suicide idealizations. PYNCP will create a community wide media awareness campaign which will result in over 2,000 youth taking part in awareness events and activities. PYNCP will implement Tier One, Universal Prevention Strategies principles and interventions tribal wide. Funds will use SAMHSA, Theory of Change model to create a tribal program focused on cultural prevention services. In year one PYNCP will; work with the GPO and the Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center to develop a plan to support the tribe's work which will be completed and approved by the GPO by the end of Year 1, which will lay out the plan for years 2-5.Year one will; Conduct a Service Delivery Systems analysis, a Community Needs and Community Readiness Assessment, and create a Community Resource /Asset Map that addresses suicide prevention and substance use and misuse prevention. Year 1 will also: Develop or revise protocols to ensure that youth who are at high risk for suicide, including those who attempt suicide, and use or misuse substances, receive follow-up services to ease their transition into treatment.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063500-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Albuquerque
State
NM
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Intergenerational Intertribal (I2 ) Positive Solutions for Native Health, aims to decrease suicide and substance misuse among American Indian youth, through age 24, whom have been impacted by trauma. Through the adaptation (year 2) and pilot implementation (year 3) of the evidence-based "Storytelling for Empowerment" intervention, youth in three consortium Tribes of the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, Inc., will improve cognitive decision making, achieve positive cultural identity, and strengthen resiliency. By honoring "who they are" youth will be equipped to make informed decisions to prevent substance misuse and promote positive mental health outcomes. This project will be guided by an intergenerational community advisory panel (ICAP), made up of recognized community leaders, advocates and professionals, including both youth and adults, in each participating community. I2 Positive Solutions for Native Health will prioritize both Tier I and Tier II prevention strategies to maximize its reach and impact in the participating communities. It is anticipated that these universal prevention strategies will reach approximately 750 AI youth age 10-24, and family members annually. The primary Tier II strategy (Storytelling for Empowerment Intervention), will focus on providing a culturally-centered intervention to at least 10 at-risk young people in each participating tribal community in project years 4 and 5. In addition to benefiting participating youth, the project will also produce a culturally adapted Storytelling PowerBook that can be utilized beyond the 5-year funding period, and shared with other tribal communities in our region. Project staff will also mobilize SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five-step planning process, to guide the selection, implementation, and evaluation of effective, culturally appropriate, and sustainable prevention activities throughout all five project years.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063500-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Albuquerque
State
NM
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Intergenerational Intertribal (I2 ) Positive Solutions for Native Health, aims to decrease suicide and substance misuse among American Indian youth, through age 24, whom have been impacted by trauma. Through the adaptation (year 2) and pilot implementation (year 3) of the evidence-based "Storytelling for Empowerment" intervention, youth in three consortium Tribes of the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, Inc., will improve cognitive decision making, achieve positive cultural identity, and strengthen resiliency. By honoring "who they are" youth will be equipped to make informed decisions to prevent substance misuse and promote positive mental health outcomes. This project will be guided by an intergenerational community advisory panel (ICAP), made up of recognized community leaders, advocates and professionals, including both youth and adults, in each participating community. I2 Positive Solutions for Native Health will prioritize both Tier I and Tier II prevention strategies to maximize its reach and impact in the participating communities. It is anticipated that these universal prevention strategies will reach approximately 750 AI youth age 10-24, and family members annually. The primary Tier II strategy (Storytelling for Empowerment Intervention), will focus on providing a culturally-centered intervention to at least 10 at-risk young people in each participating tribal community in project years 4 and 5. In addition to benefiting participating youth, the project will also produce a culturally adapted Storytelling PowerBook that can be utilized beyond the 5-year funding period, and shared with other tribal communities in our region. Project staff will also mobilize SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a five-step planning process, to guide the selection, implementation, and evaluation of effective, culturally appropriate, and sustainable prevention activities throughout all five project years.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063502-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2017/07/11
City
Fort Washakie
State
WY
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Northern Arapaho Tribe (NAT) resides on the Wind River Indian Reservation (WRIR), in rural Wyoming (WY). Multi- generational trauma has negatively impacted the teaching of Native American culture within the NAT. The NAT is one of the largest tribes in the Billings Indian Health Services (IHS) area but has one of the lowest per capita funding. Fremont County, WY, where WRIR is located, has a five (5) year aggregated suicide rate of 28/100,000 (WY Vital Records, 2009-2013). WY (23.2) has the highest five (5) - year rate of suicide in the country (12.2/ CDC, 2008-2012). On WRIR, loss of life has been normalized, leading to a suicide pact among youth in the 1990's, which ended in 8 lives lost, further adding to the existing trauma. The purpose of the Northern Arapaho Native Connections Suicide Prevention Initiative, is to establish a sustainable protocol for Northern Arapaho suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention which tracks culturally proven practices and incorporates cultural adaptations of evidence-based practices while improving readiness and establishing a community-driven action plan. This purpose is addressed within the two (2) central objectives and potential collaboration activities through which culturally relevant teachings, address youth resilience, cultural parenting, and training of gatekeepers and healthcare providers. To address the complexity of suicide, this proposal emphasizes cooperation and collaboration among community partners and engaging in a larger community effort to understand and prevent suicide with a long-term goal of policy and protocol development. The program seeks to address following objectives: 1) Identify areas of focus to improve readiness for suicide prevention on WRIR, specifically among Arapaho tribal youth ages 10-24 and their families. 2) Develop and implement a suicide prevention strategic plan for the tribe to include practices shown to be effective at improving resiliency among tribal members.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$199,960
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063503-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Kenai
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Dena'ina Yinihugheltani Project seeks to reduce suicide rates among Alaska Natives and American Indian youth living in the Central Kenai Peninsula Borough by increasing tribal capacity and enhancing collaboration. We will serve in a leadership role to guide our partners and collaborators, catalyze community outreach efforts, and foster a highly coordinated response to suicide prevention in our tribal communities throughout the region. We will ultimately impact at-risk youth and young adults of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe, the Alaska Native and American Indian communities of the Central Kenai Peninsula, and our region as a whole, who are at-risk, have experienced mental illness and/or substance abuse, or who have been impacted by this significant issue. Through highly structured and multi-faceted efforts our region will determine its readiness and capacity; it will bring together strong and consistent dialogue across multiple community organizations to ensure its success; it will effectively be data and outcome driven in design and dissemination utilizing multiple quantifiable sources; and it will be highly structured in design and method as its moves from the development of universal prevention and mental health promotion to service continuums that are specific to need in the areas of health, mental health and substance abuse within the target population. And it will do so within the framework of the Dena'ina history of culture, respect, values, and traditions. It will occupy a place that is currently void of adequate resources and services. In no small measure for youth and young adults it will reduce the occurrence of suicide, reduce the incidence of substance abuse, provide a system of care and resources within the public health continuum to address mental illness, substance use, trauma, and justice challenges through a trauma informed approach in practice and care.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$188,258
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063503-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Kenai
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Dena'ina Yinihugheltani Project seeks to reduce suicide rates among Alaska Natives and American Indian youth living in the Central Kenai Peninsula Borough by increasing tribal capacity and enhancing collaboration. We will serve in a leadership role to guide our partners and collaborators, catalyze community outreach efforts, and foster a highly coordinated response to suicide prevention in our tribal communities throughout the region. We will ultimately impact at-risk youth and young adults of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe, the Alaska Native and American Indian communities of the Central Kenai Peninsula, and our region as a whole, who are at-risk, have experienced mental illness and/or substance abuse, or who have been impacted by this significant issue. Through highly structured and multi-faceted efforts our region will determine its readiness and capacity; it will bring together strong and consistent dialogue across multiple community organizations to ensure its success; it will effectively be data and outcome driven in design and dissemination utilizing multiple quantifiable sources; and it will be highly structured in design and method as its moves from the development of universal prevention and mental health promotion to service continuums that are specific to need in the areas of health, mental health and substance abuse within the target population. And it will do so within the framework of the Dena'ina history of culture, respect, values, and traditions. It will occupy a place that is currently void of adequate resources and services. In no small measure for youth and young adults it will reduce the occurrence of suicide, reduce the incidence of substance abuse, provide a system of care and resources within the public health continuum to address mental illness, substance use, trauma, and justice challenges through a trauma informed approach in practice and care.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063505-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Mount Pleasant
State
MI
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
To the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe continues its determination to address its fears regarding substance abuse and suicide. Engaging community knowledge and experiences, the Tribe will assess and enhance its ability to prevent, monitor and address the issues of suicide and substance abuse in the community, with a focus on youth age 24 and under, and their families. Addressing trauma will be a primary component of our strategy. An Advisory Circle, Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Edbaamjigejik (the Native way of life-the one who leads) that includes multiple community members, employees and youth represented by the Tribal Youth Council will oversee and guide the process. This will include the completion of Service Delivery System Analysis, a Community Needs Assessment, Community Readiness Assessment and Community Resource/Asset map in year one of the grant with period revaluation of community readiness in subsequent years. The Tribe will further develop a system to track and monitor statistics related to suicide, substance, trauma and other important health and safety issues. Through the grant, communication and collaboration between Saginaw Chippewa youth-serving programs and services will result. Project evaluation will be conducted by an Evaluation team led by Michigan State University 's Native American Institute and will build the capacity of the Tribe to conduct its own evaluations through a "grow your own" approach, with training and skill-building expertise also provided by the Institute.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$198,969
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063505-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Mount Pleasant
State
MI
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
To the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe continues its determination to address its fears regarding substance abuse and suicide. Engaging community knowledge and experiences, the Tribe will assess and enhance its ability to prevent, monitor and address the issues of suicide and substance abuse in the community, with a focus on youth age 24 and under, and their families. Addressing trauma will be a primary component of our strategy. An Advisory Circle, Anishnaabe Bimaadiziwin Edbaamjigejik (the Native way of life-the one who leads) that includes multiple community members, employees and youth represented by the Tribal Youth Council will oversee and guide the process. This will include the completion of Service Delivery System Analysis, a Community Needs Assessment, Community Readiness Assessment and Community Resource/Asset map in year one of the grant with period revaluation of community readiness in subsequent years. The Tribe will further develop a system to track and monitor statistics related to suicide, substance, trauma and other important health and safety issues. Through the grant, communication and collaboration between Saginaw Chippewa youth-serving programs and services will result. Project evaluation will be conducted by an Evaluation team led by Michigan State University 's Native American Institute and will build the capacity of the Tribe to conduct its own evaluations through a "grow your own" approach, with training and skill-building expertise also provided by the Institute.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$1,000,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063506-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Banning
State
CA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
Riverside San-Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc. (RSBCIHI) is a tribal health care consortium that serves nine (9) tribes and two (2) urban AI/AN communities in Southern California. The goal of our project is to expand our current screening efforts to screen all of our patients, age 10 years of age and older, for depression, suicide ideation, alcohol use, and domestic/intimate partner violence. This project will enable us to screen an additional 4,474 more patients each year, including 1,428 (31.9%) more youth and young adults between the ages of 10 to 25. All patients who screen positive for any problem will receive treatment and/or referral services from one of our medical clinics and/or our behavioral health department. Our service area is home to 45,300 AI/AN people, and we have 31,908 registered patients. Forty- nine percent (49%) of our community members live below the poverty level, with family incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Suicide rates are rising among our youth. In the past few years, we have lost several youths to suicide, and at least one suicide became a cluster. Our behavioral health department served 1,322 clients in 2015, and of those clients, 1,122 (84.9%) reported having suicidal thoughts at least once during the past year, with 594 (44.9%) of those clients having suicidal thoughts at least once during the past month. We have specifically chosen to apply for this funding because it will enable us to 1) screen all of our patients for depression, suicide ideation, and other problems, and 2) provide us with the resources to develop suicide intervention protocols, suicide attempt follow-up protocols, and suicide postvention protocols for our entire organization. Our project will not only help us to save lives, it will also enable us to identify people who need help early, before their problems become severe, and offer them immediate help to reduce their suffering.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$95,401
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063507-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Akiachak
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 cultural loss, mental health and/or substance abuse disorders. The Yukon Kuskokwim village of Akiachak 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 Akiachak, 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, built on the community's strengths. Only through this method can our Y-K Delta community heal from the distress our people experience. The community of Akiachak is the target site, but we anticipate that neighboring villages will want to follow our lead as we progress in restoring healthy ways... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$95,401
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063507-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Akiachak
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 cultural loss, mental health and/or substance abuse disorders. The Yukon Kuskokwim village of Akiachak 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 Akiachak, 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, built on the community's strengths. Only through this method can our Y-K Delta community heal from the distress our people experience. The community of Akiachak is the target site, but we anticipate that neighboring villages will want to follow our lead as we progress in restoring healthy ways... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063508-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Los Angeles
State
CA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII) will utilize SAMHSA Native Connections funding to build an integrated and community-driven approach that will address suicide and substance abuse prevention. UAII serves the second largest AI/AN population in the United States that includes an inter-tribal community representing approximately 125 federally recognized tribes. Similar to multiple AI/AN communities throughout the country, alcohol and substance abuse continues to have a devastating effect. During 2014 in LAC, 60% of youth suicides had a documented mental health diagnosis and 20% were receiving mental health services at the time of death. Of increasing significance is the prevalence of bullying, and in particular, various types of cyber- bullying, and the correlation between cyberbullying and recent suicides. In Los Angeles County, of the youth who died by suicide in 2014, 50% had reported being a victim of bullying. UAII's primary strategy is to build an integrated and community-driven approach to addressing youth suicide and substance abuse prevention that involves multiple systems of client engagement. The ultimate goal is to provide a culturally appropriate, comprehensive and coordinated system of care that addresses the complex needs of AI/AN youth who are, or may be at-risk for suicidal behavior, those who are in the early process of alcohol and substance use experimentation or abuse, and those who have experienced early childhood traumatic experiences. UAII's proposed approach for this project includes: I) Increase agency capacity to provide outreach and disseminate information related to substance abuse and suicide prevention 2) Develop policies and protocols for a comprehensive and integrated service delivery system of care, and 3) Expand capacity to meet the needs of at-risk populations for suicide and substance abuse.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$998,839
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063453-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Neah Bay
State
WA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Hiodasuba Initiative: Native Connections for Makah Youth project will lead a collective, community-based, culturally grounded effort to increase access, use, and efficacy of prevention, screening, and treatment services for youth at risk for substance abuse, overdose, suicide and serious mental illness. We will initially focus on known gaps in mental health promotion, screening, and treatment. We will work in partnership with local agencies and programs to develop a strong referral and follow-up process, with policies and procedures that support sustainable coordination, communication and collaboration of services and supports. This project will include ongoing collaboration between our Sophie Trettevick Indian Health Center (STIHC) and our community. We will establish an ongoing process for clients and the general community to help recognize additional needs and potential solutions related to substance abuse and suicide prevention. We will also develop an evaluation plan that includes baseline data, ongoing evaluation of both process and outcomes, and quality improvement methods to act on data and continually adapt services to meet needs. During year 1, we hope to engage at least 10 youth under the age of 25 in our efforts to develop a plan for each prevention tier for years 2-5. Tier 1 activities will reach out to all of the approximately 600 residents of our small community who are under 25 years of age, and to their families. Tier 2 activities will aim for early identification of youth who suffer from substance abuse, have thoughts of self-harm or suicide, or have specific risk factors such as depression or anxiety; based on a recent school survey this may exceed 17% of middle- and high-school aged children. Tier 3 will focus on youth who have a diagnosed substance abuse problem or have attempted suicide.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063454-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Bellingham
State
WA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Lummi Nation Native Connections Project aims to leverage the relationships and the infrastructure developed through the Lummi System of Care Initiative and Expansion to address critically unmet needs for substance abuse and suicide prevention among our Tribes nearly 900 youth ages 10 through 24 years. Our Tribe has made significant gains in developing and delivering children's mental health services and mental health promotion and now we seek to focus on addressing gaps and disconnects between youth and the resources available to them that build strengths and resilience and reduce their risk for substance misuse and suicide. Through a Lummi community-driven process, our project seeks to accomplish the following goals: 1) community mobilization for wellness and readiness assessment, 2) expansion of the Lummi Nation System of Care Initiative to include a focus on youth substance misuse and suicide prevention, 3) community adaptation and mobilization of SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to identify or develop universal, selective and indicated strategies and outcomes for youth 10 to 24 years residing on the Lummi Nation reservation, , 4) development and delivery of community-based strategies continuity of care and postvention, 5) development of mobile technologies for youth substance misuse and suicide prevention utilizing Tribal Watch, a smartphone surveillance and community health education tool application, 6) development and implementation of local data collection and performance measurement procedures to assess outcomes of our youth substance use disorder and suicide prevention services and mental health promotion efforts. Our vision is to grow our Lummi Nation youth strong like the cedar with clear purpose and place among our people today.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$199,956
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063454-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Bellingham
State
WA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Lummi Nation Native Connections Project aims to leverage the relationships and the infrastructure developed through the Lummi System of Care Initiative and Expansion to address critically unmet needs for substance abuse and suicide prevention among our Tribes nearly 900 youth ages 10 through 24 years. Our Tribe has made significant gains in developing and delivering children's mental health services and mental health promotion and now we seek to focus on addressing gaps and disconnects between youth and the resources available to them that build strengths and resilience and reduce their risk for substance misuse and suicide. Through a Lummi community-driven process, our project seeks to accomplish the following goals: 1) community mobilization for wellness and readiness assessment, 2) expansion of the Lummi Nation System of Care Initiative to include a focus on youth substance misuse and suicide prevention, 3) community adaptation and mobilization of SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to identify or develop universal, selective and indicated strategies and outcomes for youth 10 to 24 years residing on the Lummi Nation reservation, , 4) development and delivery of community-based strategies continuity of care and postvention, 5) development of mobile technologies for youth substance misuse and suicide prevention utilizing Tribal Watch, a smartphone surveillance and community health education tool application, 6) development and implementation of local data collection and performance measurement procedures to assess outcomes of our youth substance use disorder and suicide prevention services and mental health promotion efforts. Our vision is to grow our Lummi Nation youth strong like the cedar with clear purpose and place among our people today.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063455-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Arcata
State
CA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
United Indian Health Services, Inc. (UIHS) Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Project will serve American Indians ages 10-24 living in Northwestern California who are at high risk for suicide and substance abuse. Efforts will include developing an integrated service system amongst local providers plus educating the community about suicide and substance abuse in order to build the community's capacity to support tribal youth and their families. Project goals include: 1) Implement Year 1 activities such as establishing at least twelve collaborative partnerships to implement grant activities, conduct preliminary community assessments, develop policy and procedures that promote coordination across youth-serving organizations, involve community members in the effort, and develop a plan for Years 2 through 5 of the grant; 2) Create effective systems and tools that support evaluation activities such as collection, analysis and reporting of performance, mental health, and prevention measures as well as complete a local evaluability assessment and periodic local performance assessments; 3) Continue to collaborate with at least three partners throughout the grant in order to establish and maintain an integrated infrastructure and effective protocols for serving tribal youth who are at high risk for suicide and substance abuse; 4) Educate the community and build commitment to supporting tribal youth by coordinating an Intertribal Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Summit during each year of the grant. UIHS, established in 1970, is a tribal health organization that serves more than 10,000 American Indians within Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. The Behavioral Health Department will be administering the Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Project.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$200,000
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063455-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Arcata
State
CA
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
United Indian Health Services, Inc. (UIHS) Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Project will serve American Indians ages 10-24 living in Northwestern California who are at high risk for suicide and substance abuse. Efforts will include developing an integrated service system amongst local providers plus educating the community about suicide and substance abuse in order to build the community's capacity to support tribal youth and their families. Project goals include: 1) Implement Year 1 activities such as establishing at least twelve collaborative partnerships to implement grant activities, conduct preliminary community assessments, develop policy and procedures that promote coordination across youth-serving organizations, involve community members in the effort, and develop a plan for Years 2 through 5 of the grant; 2) Create effective systems and tools that support evaluation activities such as collection, analysis and reporting of performance, mental health, and prevention measures as well as complete a local evaluability assessment and periodic local performance assessments; 3) Continue to collaborate with at least three partners throughout the grant in order to establish and maintain an integrated infrastructure and effective protocols for serving tribal youth who are at high risk for suicide and substance abuse; 4) Educate the community and build commitment to supporting tribal youth by coordinating an Intertribal Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Summit during each year of the grant. UIHS, established in 1970, is a tribal health organization that serves more than 10,000 American Indians within Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. The Behavioral Health Department will be administering the Youth Suicide and Substance Abuse Prevention Project.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$199,967
Award FY
2016
Award Number
SM063456-01
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Gakona
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Mt. Sanford Tribal Consortium is a tribal health consortium that represents the Mentasta Traditional Tribe and the Cheesh'na Tribe Tribal Council. Behavioral and mental health supports are limited in our communities, which represent over 200 tribal members. We are currently supported by a single itinerant behavioral health worker from the Copper River Native Association. This is not enough. The SAMHSA Native Connections opportunity provides the resources to create a broad scale community plan that uses our own strengths to strengthen our youth. In Year I, we will accomplish the following goals in order to create culturally appropriate, tribally designed suicide and substance abuse prevention programming in years 2-5 of the grant program. GOAL 1: A community-created prevention program action plan will be completed and approved by the SAMHSA Grant Program Officer. GOAL 2: Policies and procedures relating to suicide or substance abuse prevention and treatment will be reviewed, revised and/or created as needed. GOAL 3: Project staff capacity to both gather and analyze quality data from clients and program initiatives will increase 100%. Accomplishing these goals is essential for many reasons. The suicide rate amongst Alaska Natives has increased to the highest suicide rate per capita in the country. Suicide in our Alaska Native communities has become "the norm". While we battle with the loss of our children, our youth seem to accept suicide as a solution to immediate problems rather than seeking long-term solutions. Last year there were two youth suicides, one in Mentasta, and one in Chistochina. Research shows that strong cultural identification makes adolescents less vulnerable to risk factors for drug use and more able to benefit from protective factors than adolescents who lack identification. We set our intention to help our youth identify with our traditional culture so they may grow strong and steady on the earth.... View More
Title
Native Connections
Amount
$199,967
Award FY
2017
Award Number
SM063456-02
Project Period
2016/09/30 - 2021/09/29
City
Gakona
State
AK
NOFO
SM-16-010
Short Title: Native Connections
Short Title: Native Connections
Project Description
The Mt. Sanford Tribal Consortium is a tribal health consortium that represents the Mentasta Traditional Tribe and the Cheesh'na Tribe Tribal Council. Behavioral and mental health supports are limited in our communities, which represent over 200 tribal members. We are currently supported by a single itinerant behavioral health worker from the Copper River Native Association. This is not enough. The SAMHSA Native Connections opportunity provides the resources to create a broad scale community plan that uses our own strengths to strengthen our youth. In Year I, we will accomplish the following goals in order to create culturally appropriate, tribally designed suicide and substance abuse prevention programming in years 2-5 of the grant program. GOAL 1: A community-created prevention program action plan will be completed and approved by the SAMHSA Grant Program Officer. GOAL 2: Policies and procedures relating to suicide or substance abuse prevention and treatment will be reviewed, revised and/or created as needed. GOAL 3: Project staff capacity to both gather and analyze quality data from clients and program initiatives will increase 100%. Accomplishing these goals is essential for many reasons. The suicide rate amongst Alaska Natives has increased to the highest suicide rate per capita in the country. Suicide in our Alaska Native communities has become "the norm". While we battle with the loss of our children, our youth seem to accept suicide as a solution to immediate problems rather than seeking long-term solutions. Last year there were two youth suicides, one in Mentasta, and one in Chistochina. Research shows that strong cultural identification makes adolescents less vulnerable to risk factors for drug use and more able to benefit from protective factors than adolescents who lack identification. We set our intention to help our youth identify with our traditional culture so they may grow strong and steady on the earth.... View More
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Non-Discretionary Funding
| Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Block Grant | $0 |
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| Community Mental Health Services Block Grant | $0 |
| Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) | $0 |
| Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) | $0 |
| Subtotal of Non-Discretionary Funding | $0 |
Discretionary Funding
| Mental Health | $0 |
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| Substance Use Prevention | $0 |
| Substance Use Treatment | $0 |
| Flex Grants | $0 |
| Subtotal of Discretionary Funding | $0 |
Total Funding
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| Total Substance Use Funds | $0 |
| Flex Grant Funds | $0 |
| Total Funds | $0 |