Current Training Activities

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Current Training Activities

• Teen Suicide Prevention Workshops 2004 and 2005

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Purpose of Conferences

• To bring the local resources together in each
  reservation or urban community to address
  prevention of teen suicide.
• To train teen and adult mentors for leadership
  role in prevention of suicide
• To assist youth and mentors to implement their
  strategic plans for the next steps

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Proactive Prevention Program

• Build on the strengths in our teens
• Spirituality
• Family support
• Positive friends
• Caring adults
• Positive Activities
• Access to Mental Health and Physicians

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Natural Helpers

• Help other teens through listening and referral
• Importance of getting friend to help
• Set limits on their role/responsibility
• Goal is that teens will know how to break the
  code of silence
• Train adult mentors and provide safety net

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Leadership Training Model

• Gathering of Native Americans GONA
• Values, goals, communication skills, leadership
  exercises, resiliency/protective factors
• Bring adults and teens together on common ground
  to develop trust and identify safety net.
  (Skits, etc)
• Intertwine cultural/spiritual elements

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Resiliency

• Culturally-based in all levels of workshops
• Community Support
• Active Task Force that Includes Youth
• Involve community leaders who are role models
• Aim to reduce high-risk behavior
• Strengthen identity and resiliency

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Where Have We Been

• June 2004 Billings 24 youth 10 adults
• November 2004 Northern Cheyenne 11 youth 20
  adults
• November 2004 North Central _at_ Havre for 26 youth
  from Ft. Peck, Ft. Belknap and Havre 11 adults
• January 2005 Ft. Peck 32 youth 20 adults

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Where Have We Been (cont)

• June 2005 National Suicide Prevention Network in
  Albuquerque 26 members from each of the 12 Areas
• July 30 August 3 Billings 50 participants from
  Montana, Wyoming South Dakota, Arizona. 20 Train
  the Trainers hands on experience as facilitators
  and clan leaders. 37 teens age 14-19.

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Where Have We Been (cont)

• February 2006 Great Falls for Missoula, Blackfeet
  and Great Falls Train the Trainers and planning
  on site workshops
• March 2006 Ft. Belknap 30 youth 20 adults all
  three high schools participated
• May 2006 Blackfeet Train the Trainers 10 and 15
  youth

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Other Related Training

• Training on BH 3.0 GUI software including Suicide
  Register to MH/SS staff and Alcohol Substance
  Abuse Directors
• Implementation of Suicide Register function of
  the EHR for primary care providers
• Development of click and fill version of EHR
  Suicide register

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Summary

• 2004 to 2006 IHS has been involved in teen
  suicide prevention workshops
• All MH and SS staff are heavily involved in
  crisis intervention, diagnosis and treatment of
  depression, behavioral problems and school based
  services
• Our goal is to be a partner step up, dont hold
  back as Clayton would say.