Abstract This project is a pilot study to assist youth to overcome alcohol and drug abuse problems that often occur in combination with mental disorders. The pilot will explore the effectiveness of a holistic, culturally-based inpatient treatment program for adolescents that integrates mental health programming into a 60-90 day inpatient […] Read more »
Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit
Abstract In order to more fully meet the treatment needs of the AI/AN population of Pierce County, this project will engage the community in an 18-month planning project to evaluate the current treatment system and develop a local model which incorporates, as appropriate, best practice approaches to increase the effectiveness […] Read more »
Guadalupe Community Oriented Recovery Effort (G-CORE)
Abstract Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, Guadalupe-Community Oriented Recovery Effort (G-Core), Guadalupe, AZ: G-Core will use an assets-based, culturally appropriate community organizing approach in an effort to promote renewed hope for recovery and to fight the stigma associated with both substance abuse and recovery-seeking among Native Americans in the local […] Read more »
Graf Rheeneerhaanjii: The Place Where Healing Occurs : The Place Where Healing Occurs
Abstract The New Life Program provides residential treatment to a cohort of 12 youth, ages 12 to 18 with substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. A second cohort of shorter duration of treatment is served in a separate program at the Graf Rheeneerhaanjii Center. Objectives The primary goal is to assist […] Read more »
Golden Heart Program
Abstract The Golden Heart Program is designed to produce local systems changes to improve prevention, intervention, and treatment services with regard to the needs of the chronic inebriate population. The project is to improve intervention and outreach efforts downtown as well as correct for grossly inadequate access to detoxification services. […] Read more »
Generation 7
Abstract Generation 7 is an adolescent treatment program based on the implementation of Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for substance abusing Native American youth in Oakland, California. The treatment plan interweaves MET/CBT 5 with the holistic approach of the Family & Child Guidance Clinic of the Native American […] Read more »
Friendship House Homeless Project
Abstract The mission of Friendship House is to promote healing and wellness in the American Indian community by providing a continuum of substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery services that integrate the traditional American Indian healing practices and state-of-the-art substance abuse treatment methodology. The Friendship House substance abuse treatment programs […] Read more »
Friendship House Healing Center
Abstract The Friendship House Healing Center grant is a collaboration with the Native American Health Center (NAHC) to expand substance abuse treatment capacity and HIV services for Native Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area who have a history of involvement in the criminal justice system. The program integrates the […] Read more »
Friendship House Association of American Indians Community Planning
Abstract Friendship House Association of American Indians, Inc. of San Francisco is a 501C(3), tax exempt corporation, incorporated in 1973 to serve American Indians relocated from their reservations to the San Francisco Bay Area. Since then Friendship House has grown into a comprehensive multi-service agency that provides substance abuse treatment, […] Read more »
Fremont County Alcohol Crisis Center
Abstract Modeled after the Na’nizhoozhi Center in Gallup, NM, the project expanded substance abuse services in rural Fremont County through the establishment of a 28-bed 24-hour Alcohol Crisis Center to provide short- and long term detoxification, residential and transitional substance abuse reduction services with program support and oversight from tribal […] Read more »