These tools include Community Readiness Assessments, Gathering of Native Americans/Gathering of Alaska Natives events, and Tribal Action Plans.

To learn more about involving communities in wellness efforts, see Community Collaboration Webinars. To receive announcements for upcoming webinars, sign up for the Tribal TTA Center’s email list.

Language, Culture, and Intervention

Language, Culture, and Intervention: A three-part series devoted to discussing resources that will increase the impact of your program while using cultural components that are unique to tribes and your community specifically.

• Language, Culture, and Intervention Part 1: Culture & Adapting Intervention (1 hour, 24 minutes)
  American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities are steeped in ceremony and traditions that have been practiced for thousands of years. Many native communities have adapted other promising practices and/or evidence-based programs to fit their cultural worldview. This session will explore various interventions AI/AN communities have adapted for effective behavioral health programming. 
• Language, Culture, and Intervention Part 2: Marketing Your Program (1 hour, 30 minutes)
  If your community is not aware of your program, how can you help them? Social marketing is an integral component of successful behavioral health interventions. While social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat are part of that marketing, a flyer can still be an effective tool to share program information or an event. We will talk with a community that is using social marketing to effectively maintain community engagement, leading to empowerment, ownership and sustainability.
• Language Culture and Intervention Part 3: Implementing Evidence-Based Intervention (1 hour, 33 minutes)
  Have you been to a training and thought, “This won’t work for my community.”? Are you looking for a curriculum that will fit your tribal community’s needs and readiness level? Join us as we take a deeper look at evidence-based interventions that have a cultural component and are targeted for tribal communities. We will explore how to develop and integrate these curricula to fit your specific tribal community or program.

Gathering of Native Americans/Gathering of Alaska Native

The Gathering of Native Americans/Gathering of Alaska Natives (GONA/GOAN) training is a positive, strengths-based, community-changing prevention curriculum for tribal nations.

Curriculum

• Power of Storytelling: Opportunities for Healing Through a Community Lens (1 hour, 10 minutes)
  Storytelling is inherent to tribal cultures and is a source of hope and resilience. Learn how storytelling can assist tribal communities in developing behavioral health solutions.

Planning

• Wellness Planning: Creating Seats at the Table, But Who Should Come? (1 hour, 8 minutes)
  Hear how Native communities can plan for positive sustainable changes, learn about planning as ceremony, and find ways to leverage current community resources to plan wellness and promote positive change.

Tribal Action Plan

Tribal Action Plan webinars are available to help tribes create a plan for rebuilding hope and addressing substance use disorders in their communities.

Developing a Tribal Action Plan

• TAP Module 1 Exploring Gathering and Resource (1 hour, 34 minutes)
  Module 1 focuses on exploring, gathering, and harvesting knowledge and resources. Here we explore the origins, key elements and benefits of the Tribal Law and Order Act TAP. Participants will understand the similarities between a program SAP and a TAP, and how a TAP helps tribes align, leverage, and coordinate existing and future federal, state, and tribal resources. Other topics featured are community readiness, community partners, local data gathering tools, and seeing healing as a primary focus of TAP development.
• TAP Module 2 Planning and Preparing (1 hour, 4 minutes)
  Module 2 looks at the role of leadership, community engagement in developing a vision and mission statement, and review of local data, including community readiness model scores. We will look at strategies to guide development as well as map local assets and resources, assess existing capacity, and determine smart goals, objectives, and activities. This module will explore elements of a social marketing and communication plan.
• TAP Module 3 Acting and Adjusting (1 hour, 13 minutes)
  Module 3 explores timelines and budgeting for goals, determining trainings, joint trainings, assembling a crisis response team, and addressing barriers to implementation. We will also discuss a communication plan, ways to mobilize a community, and a shared crisis intervention protocol.
• TAP Module 4 Assessing and Revising (1 hour, 9 minutes)
  Module 4 looks at evaluation, outcomes, and making regular reviews for necessary course corrections. Other topics include weaving in cultural teachings and language, researching federal and private grants, and using the TAP as a unifying strength for tribal sovereignty