Abstract The program will focus on high-risk youth who are using substances and their extended families. It will build off traditions of the Lummi nation and Northwest Indian communities as well as follow best practices for drug prevention; treatment, and family strengthening. The program will include: (1) a healing emphasis, […] Read more »
Little Wound School CSAP Family Strengthening Grant
Abstract Little Wound School, Inc. seeks to increase Lakota family resilience and increase protective factors against substance abuse and violence through increasing one reservation community’s capacity to deliver a culturally congruent family strengthening project. There is a significant need for family strengthening among the Lakota that includes an emphasis on […] Read more »
Indian Health Care Resources Community Wide Planning
Abstract The IHCRC will engage the Tulsa community, including service providers, service agencies, tribal groups, mental health professionals, courts, schools, domestic violence and American Indian clients and their families in a series of strategic planning activities aimed at changing attitudes, opening doors and building partnerships. Objectives Indian Nation Served Key […] Read more »
Homeless Treatment Enhancement Project
Abstract This program will augment the homeless treatment system in Portland, Oregon with a range of innovative enhancement for hard-to-serve homeless families and individual men and women. The target population includes 4% Native American from mostly Northwest tribes living in the urban area. Objectives Indian Nation Served Key Components Evaluation […] Read more »
Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. Congressional Earmark
Abstract This project will support 9 elder treatment beds and 20 outpatient treatment slots for women with children in the Clare Swan Center. The Project will 1) increase access and availability of services to a larger number of hard-to-reach Alaska Native Elders in need of treatment through continuation of the […] Read more »
Connecting Native American Women to Treatment
Abstract This project expanded the capacity of the 45-day women’s residential substance abuse treatment program at Guiding Star to include improved medical and physical health service and referral with focus on occurring disorders, case management , and coordination of care both internal and external, traditional healing services, structured extended family […] Read more »
Chagha She Binalwod (Strengthening Youth)
Abstract The White Mountain Apache Tribe (WMAT), a tribal nation of 18,000 Native Americans in central Arizona, will enhance substance abuse treatment on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. The project will provide intensive in-home, substance abuse counseling services and community-based recreational programs for up to 50 at-risk and/or court-ordered Apache […] Read more »
Canku Teca (Yankton Sioux Tribe)
Abstract Fund the Yankton Sioux Halfway House for two years and help the tribe deliver comprehensive residential services to tribal members. Objectives Indian Nation Served Yankton Sioux Tribe Key Components Halfway House Evaluation Design Evaluation Results Products Developed Read more »