NATIVE ASPIRATIONS

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NATIVE ASPIRATIONS TTTA 4 Phoenix, AZ Gary
Neumann Gloria Guillory
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Why Native Aspirations was initiated by SAMHSA

• Suicide is the second leading cause of death for
  Indian youth
• The purpose of this contract is as follows
• to promote/enhance community led youth
  violence, bullying, and suicide prevention
  planning
• to build pro-social/help-seeking behaviors of
  Native youth and their families and
• to increase protective factors/decrease risk
  factors contributing to youth violence,
  bullying, and suicide.

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Native Aspirations Team

• The Native Aspirations project team includes
  staff and expert consultants in the following
  areas
• Behavioral Health
• Community Assessment and Facilitation
• Native Culture and Ceremony
• Project Management
• Evaluation and Research and
• Database Management.
• In addition, consultants specializing in AI/AN
  behavioral health issues of children, families,
  and communities will be engaged throughout the
  project.

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Community Selection and Invitation

• The Native Aspirations (NA) Community Selection
  Process
• Examined national data sets
• Identified the IHS Areas at highest risk
• Coordinated regional expert administrative
  stakeholders in IHS Areas who interviewed and
  selected communities most in need
• Ranked the selected communities within Area
• Extended an invitation to participate

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Communities We Serve
1. Ft. Peck Indian Reservation, MT
2. Wind River Reservation, WY
1. Northern Cheyenne, MT
8. Noorvik Native Community, AK
2. Crow Tribe, MT
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9. Native Village of Alakanuk, AK
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3. Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe, ND
3. Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation, MT
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4. Cheyenne River Reservation, SD
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5. Native Village of Savoonga, AK
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4. Huslia Tribe, AK
6. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD
5. Angoon Community Association, AK
7. Crow Creek Reservation, SD
6. Rosebud Sioux Tribe, SD
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How it operates

• Native Aspirations 2 (NA2) Activities and
  Events
• Letters of invitation sent Introductory site
  visits conducted Oversight panel identified
• Community Readiness information gathered
• Training and technical assistance provided for
  onsite GONA Events and Community Mobilization
  Planning (CMP) Event
• Develop/enhance community plan
• Develop/enhance inter-agency prevention budget
• Technical assistance to implement CMP and
  evidence-, practice-, and cultural-based
  interventions (EBI/PBI/CBIs) provided
• Participate in Project Evaluation (outcomes)
• Existing Nine Communities
• Continued Technical Assistance
• Continued EBI/PBI/CBIs

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How it operates

• Native Aspirations (NA) Utilizes the Community
  Readiness Model
• Provides communities with a personalized
  assessment of readiness for the development of
  appropriate strategies that are more successful
  and cost effective. Tri Ethnic Center for
  Prevention Research, Colorado State University
• NA promotes utilizing the following
• Evidence-Based Interventions
• Practice-Based Interventions and
• Cultural-Based Interventions.
• Native Aspirations involves building community
  recognition and ownership.

A grandmother attending the Wind River GONA with
her granddaughter stated that her grandson was
the 9-year-old that committed suicide and you all
saw his picture up on the screen all week long.
She brought her granddaughter to the GONA
because she is on a suicide watch and was so
thankful as her granddaughter and others shared a
lot about her brother and cried together. Now
other people from here know about my
granddaughter. We all can help her, because we
all know about her now.
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GONA - Community InterventionWhere weve been!

• Intergenerational trauma results in the
  following
• cultural disorientation
• social friction
• distrust
• collective guilt and shame, as well as damage in
  the fabric of cultural identity and
• system territorialism.
• In order for both individual and community
  healing to occur, awareness and understanding of
  (community-specific) historical trauma must be
  addressed.

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• The GONA provides this opportunity for community
  healing through an experiential community process
  that includes four phases
• Belonging Mastery Interdependence Genero
  sity

A grandmothers commitment following the GONA
To become more involved with this (Native
Aspirations) program, because I have children and
had a troubled youth. I tried to commit
suicidenow I see the error of my own ways. I
commit to get involved and involve my children so
they can learn from my mistakes.
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Community Mobilization Planning (CMP) Where
were going!

• The CMP training/planning event is conducted
  after the GONA.
• Participants include the community oversight
  panel and key community youth, adults, and
  elders.

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12 Key Components of Effective Planning

• 1. Enroll a multi-agency oversight panel
• 2. Review a resource and referral system
• 3. Utilize a youth screening instrument
• 4. Identify a Gatekeepers Training Plan
• 5. Create a Community Crisis Response Plan
• 6. Assemble a Clinical Coordination Team

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12 Key Components (continued)

• 7. Review evidence-, practice-, and
  cultural-based interventions
• 8. Create a Community Awareness Media
• Campaign
• 9. Establish/Enhance Cross-Agency Data
  Collection Systems
• 10. Review tribal codes and school policies
• 11. Expand vocational, career, and mentoring
  opportunities for youth
• 12. Support the Voice of Youth in prevention
  planning

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Lessons We Have LearnedA grassroots approach
promotes community ownership.

• Culturally tailored and community-specific
  approach
• Grassroots focus
• Community buy-in and ownership are essential

An example of community buy-in occurred at one of
the GONA events. One of the attending tribal
council members had planned only to attend the
first 2 days of the event, but returned on Days 3
and 4 stating, I just turned my cell phone off,
I had 15 calls already this morning, but this is
important work and its good that I am here.
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Lessons We Have Learned A community platform is
essential.

• Native Aspirations provides a community platform
  for an Oversight Panel, Community Mobilization
  Planning (CMP) Process, and CMP Plan, that
  enhance cross-collaboration with IHS, State, and
  National efforts, as well as the coordination of
  prevention efforts within community.

MEGAN REICHERT, MISS WYOMING 2004, WORKED WITH
THE CORONERS OFFICE, THE TASK FORCE, AND INSPIRE
AS PART OF HER STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN FOR PREVENTION.

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What We Have LearnedCommunity planning needs
youth involvement.
MT/WY IHS AREA The Fort Belknap Youth Advisory
Council is developing a schedule of prevention
activities.
ALASKA VILLAGE Alakanuk youth and elders
organize weekly Yupik culture and language
classes.
ABERDEEN IHS AREA Lakota Youth Movement
organize an inter-tribal youth council we have
given up on the adults, it is time to organize
and provide for our own healthy activities in our
communities. Lakota Youth Movement
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Changes in the Communities

• Elders/Youth Group
• Peer-to-Peer Helpers
• Talking Circles
• Capacity Building and
• Empowerment
• Increased Volunteers
• (All Communities)
• Nine Community Plans
• ERTeam and QPR Trainings
• Clinical Coordination Team

• Culture Nights
• Baseball Field
• Survivor Support
• Group
• Identified Gatekeepers
• Increased Knowledge
• Skill Building
• Coordination of Efforts
• Enhanced
• Oversight Panels Established

• Suicide Prevention Coordinators in Communities
• OVERALL - Reduction of stigma and increased
  awareness
• regarding Youth Violence, Bullying, and Suicide
  Prevention.

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• Anticipated Outcomes
• 1) A community plan and budget
• 2) Coordinated efforts
• 3) Inclusion of youth voice
• 4) A cross-agency MOA

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Future Research, Opportunities, and Support

• Further research is still needed to assess issues
  of sustainability
• Opportunities exist for continued and new
  collaboration (County, State, Inter-Tribal)
• The project has offered hope!

This needs to continue and it wont cost
anything for me. One participant committed to
opening her home, once a week, for any of the 120
GONA participants to come and participate in a
traditional Talking Circle in order to continue
the healing and collaboration that resulted from
the trust and safety developed at the Wind River
GONA.
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Native Aspirations has presented drums to each of
the participating communities during their onsite
GONA Events. The drums are presented during the
Generosity phase.
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Native Aspirations(NA) Team
Elizabeth Rose, Community Coordinator Savoonga
Alakanuk Noorvik Huslia Angoon Judy Flett,
Community Coordinator Blackfeet Nation Rocky
Boy Ila McKay, Community Coordinator Pine Ridge
Cheyenne River Rosebud Turtle Mountain
Crow Creek Barbara Gongyin, Project
Specialist Dr. Cindy Hansen, SAMHSA Project
Officer
Jo Ann Kauffman, KAI President Gloria
Guillory, NA2 Project Manager Admin Focus Gary
Neumann, NA2 Project Manager Community
Focus Fort Peck Wind River Paulette Running
Wolf, Community Intervention Director Fort
Belknap Fredricka Hunter, Community Coordinator
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• FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
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• IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
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• FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
• SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
• IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
• THE EXPERIENCE OF MANY
• YEARS OF EXPERTS