Abstract This project is aimed at improving the substance abuse treatment system that serves 36,000 American Indians living in the metropolitan area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. The project involves compiling data on urban Indian substance abuse trends and using this data to develop a plan to strengthen the […] 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 »
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 »
Eastern Aleutian Tribes, Inc. Community Wide Planning
Abstract Eastern Aleutian Tribes, Inc. will complete a two-phased comprehensive substance abuse planning project to develop a consensually based set of approaches to address the multiple changes substance abuse needs of 6 federally recognized tribes in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Objectives Indian Nation Served 6 federally recognized (not specified) […] Read more »
Deilee Hit (Safe Harbor)
Abstract This project expands residential treatment substance abuse services targeting Native Alaska women with children and pregnant women in rural Southeast Alaska. Under another grant that will follow after the 8/31/04 end date, services can be individualized for a period of 90 days to 6 months and the program will […] Read more »
Creating a Comprehensive System of Care for Native Americans
Abstract The overall intent of this initiative is to move the community forward in its level of community readiness/capacity to actively address the substance abuse, mental health, and health-care issues of Native Americans in Central Ohio. To this end we have established the following goals: (1) to develop a Native-focused […] Read more »
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Community Wide Planning
Abstract The project seeks to complete the necessary program, services and facilities planning that will lead to a Community Wellness Center on the reservation. The Center will offer a full array of traditional healing and western healing approaches to strengthen the health and educate our members on receiving true wellness. […] Read more »
Circle of Life Community Wide Planning
Abstract The Three Affiliated Tribes of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara propose a comprehensive community planning project for streamlining, integrating, and improving the delivery of treatment services for substance abuse and associated disorders by bringing Tribal Government, service providers, community leaders, and others who have a stake in reducing substance abuse […] Read more »
Circle of Care
Abstract This project expanded existing residential AOD Services to Assiniboine and Sioux adolescents by creating a continuum of care circle that incorporated outpatient treatment and family and community involvement. Objectives The goals of the program were to increase family and cross-generation involvement in substance abuse treatment, to increase the quality […] Read more »