A1: Alternatives to Incarceration: Tribal-State Collaboration Panel
Panel Description: This panel will include both Tribal and State representatives who will discuss strategies that center on collaborations between states and Tribes to provide alternatives to incarceration for justice-involved youth. The panelists will share examples of state laws, agreements, and practices that enable them to identify youth who are Tribal members and work with Tribes to provide services and supports detained and incarcerated youth.
Panelists:
- Amanda Swope, Director of Tribal Juvenile Justice Programs, Muscogee Creek Nation, OK
- Patti Buhl, Director of Juvenile Justice, Cherokee Nation
- Laura Broyles, State Juvenile Justice Specialist, Office of Juvenile Affairs for the State of Oklahoma
- Bridget Coppersmith, State Juvenile Justice Specialist, South Dakota Department of Corrections
- Leslie Riggs, Tribal Liaison/Native American Program Coordinator, Oregon Youth Authority
- Heather Valdez Freedman, Deputy Director, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Moderators:
- Nan Benally, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Technical Assistance Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
- Kara McDonagh, Program Manager, Youth Justice and System Innovation Division, OJJDP
A2: Increasing Community Involvement in the Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts
Session Description: Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court (JHWC) professionals will share their journey to becoming involved in their respective Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts, including what drew them in and what keeps them committed to the work. Discussion will also focus on the critical importance of the strategic planning process, roles the Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Coordinator plays in moving the court toward implementation, as well as the steps taken in creating communication and marketing plans to garner community support and ensure sustainability.
A2: Increasing Community Involvement in the Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts
Presenters:
- Dave McArthur, Youth Program Manager, White Earth, MN
- Chaniel Grant, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court & Tribal Youth Program Coordinator, Blackfeet Tribe, MT
- Val Tortalita, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Coordinator, Pueblo of Acoma, NM
Moderator: Jacob Metoxen, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Tribal Youth Resource Center
A3: Winnebago Tribe Crisis Intervention Response Model
Session Description: Crisis intervention is an immediate, short-term response to mental, physical, emotional, or behavioral distress. This session will provide an overview of the Winnebago Tribe’s trauma-informed youth Crisis Intervention Response Model, which has been successful in mitigating the impact of a trauma events, supporting recovery processes, and restoring adaptive functions for justice-involved youth.
- Presenter: Daryl LaPointe, Director of the Youth Crisis Intervention Center, Winnebago Youth Shelter, Wisconsin
- Moderator: Ethleen Iron Cloud-Two Dogs, Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Tribal Youth Resource Center
A4: National Native Children’s Trauma Center Information Session
Session Description: The National Native Children’s Trauma Center staff have set aside time for a greet and meet with OJJDP Tribal Youth and Juvenile to Healing Court grantees. This is an opportunity to meet in person and share about your projects and what you may want/desire/hope for your trauma-informed approaches to support your staff and your tribal youth. NNCTC will describe the trauma-informed youth justice trainings and new technical assistance offerings, such as the NNCTC’s Practice Consultation (PC) Meetings. Participants of Practice Consultation Meetings will have the opportunity to go through a Case Study using relevant examples with opportunities to practice, ask questions, and get clarification to support your trauma-informed practice.
Presenters:
- Marilyn Zimmerman, Senior Director of Policy and Programs, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
- Veronica Willeto, Training and Technical Assistance Manager, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
Keynote Day 1: Isabel Coronado
B1: Alaska Villages/Communities Panel: Priorities, Innovative Approaches, Challenges, Strategies to Address Justice System Disparities
Panel Description: Alaska is home to 229 of the 574 federally recognized Tribes in the United States, and has a diversity of cultures, languages, and histories, as well as unique challenges. This panel will include Alaska Native programs from a variety of regions who can speak to Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) priorities and Alaska-Native specific considerations in advancing health and wellness for Alaska Native youth and communities.
Panelists:
- Anthony Gastelum, Tribal Youth Program Coordinator, Organized Village of Kake, AK
- Miguel Contreras, Tribal Youth Program Coordinator, Hoonah Indian Association, AK
- Patricia Young, Tetlin Grant Manager, Native Village of Tetlin, AK
- Maggie Miller, Tribal Youth Program Coordinator, Kawerak, AK
Moderators:
- Iva Karoly-Lister, Wellness Coordinator, Resource Basket
- Geroma Void, Program Manager, Youth Justice and System Innovation, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
B2: Best Practices in Conducting a Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Hearing
Session Description: This session will feature a mock intake as well as a Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court hearing where the presenters create a script that addresses some common issues that the Tribal Youth Resource Center has helped address via training and technical assistance. The intake will focus on some common questions and issues to avoid. During the performance, the group will take breaks to engage with the audience to gain their input on what next steps should be and what could have been done differently. The mock intake will address issues such as: family involvement, participant willingness, and confidentiality. The performance will culminate in a mock Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Hearing where participants will play roles in going through a script that shows what to expect during a hearing and common issues that may arise during the intake/case management process.
Presenters:
- Chief Judge Lawrence King (Role: Judge), MorongoBand of Indians, CA
- Jacob Metoxen, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Tribal Youth Resource Center (Role: Prosecutor)
- Chaniel Grant, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court & Tribal Youth Program Coordinator, Blackfeet Tribe, MT (Role: Coordinator)
- Laura Smith, Program Coordinator, Tribal Youth Resource Center (Role: Defense Council)
- Jenna McArthur, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Case Manager, White Earth (Role: Youth Participant)
- Erin Thin Elk, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center (participant family member)
Moderator:
- Dave McArthur, Youth Program Manager, White Earth, MN
B3: Youth Perspectives on Substance Abuse and Self Harm
Session Description: Developed collaboratively by the Tribal Youth Resource Center Youth Ambassadors, this session explores youth substance abuse and self-harm awareness from a Native youth perspective. The presenters share their perspectives and experiences as young people on how leaders and others in their communities can proactively and effectively respond to youth self-harm and substance use challenges. The importance of self-care and the varied forms it can take will also be discussed. This session will support youth program staff in prevention and intervention planning when working with Native youth.
Presenters:
- Kaitlin Martinez, Youth Ambassador Mentor, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Isabella Fridia, Youth Ambassador, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- James John II, Youth Ambassador, Tribal Youth Resource Center
Moderator:
- Jeri Brunoe, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
B4: National Native Children’s Trauma Center (NNCTC) – Session 1: Trauma and Justice Involvement
Session Description: Participants will learn how exposure to trauma and historical trauma can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of Tribal youth in the juvenile justice system. The aim is to understand the key terms of trauma, resilience, and recovery and learn how to view the behaviors of Tribal youth through a trauma-informed lens. This is the first module adapted from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s curriculum, Think Trauma: A training for working with justice-involved youth. Any professional who works with justice-involved Tribal youth and their families will benefit from this introduction to trauma and trauma-informed care. The goal is to educate professionals about the impact of trauma so that they may have the knowledge necessary to respond appropriately to traumatized justice-involved Tribal youth. Participants are not required to attend all sessions.
Presenter:
- Kimee Wind-Hummingbird, Training and Technical Assistance Specialist, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
C1: Often Forgotten & Underserved Population: Voices of Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Youth Panel
Panel Description: For a Native youth whose gender or sexuality is non-conforming, the reality is that they may experience multiple layers of prejudice and oppression and may encounter more obstacles in developing a strong sense of identity and belonging. National, regional, and local, culturally-informed approaches are key for developing educational and healing initiatives for Native LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit youth. Youth panelists will share their life experiences as young adults who identify as Native Two-Spirit or LGBTQ+, along with their triumphs and challenges, and how Tribal youth service providers can best include and support them.
Panelists:
- Tayutunhahelahawi Rayan Arnold, Citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Menominee, Potawatomi, & Stockbridge-Munsee
- Misty Sandoval, Navajo & Seminole
- Blue Stratig, Lake Manitoba First Nation
Moderator:
- Lenny Hayes, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
C2: Rural Alaska Community Action Program (RurAL CAP) – Resource Basket: Supporting the Effective Operation of Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts in Alaska
Session Description: Alaska’s deeply held values contribute to the development of youth-serving programs, including juvenile healing to wellness courts. As courts implement and enhance their programs, the values and principles become increasingly important to the development of effective operations. This session will evaluate the different approaches Alaska tribes take to draw out activities and the steps their juvenile healing to wellness courts take to achieve operational status.
Presenters:
- Joie Millet, Program Director, Resource Basket
- Pat Sekaquaptewa, Hopi, Justice, Hopi Appellate Court, Affiliated Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Alaska Native Studies & Rural Development (UAF DANSRD)
Moderators:
- Kimberly Martus, Project Supervisor, Resource Basket
- Geroma Void, Program Manager, Youth Justice and System Innovation Division, OJJDP
C3: Transforming Justice Systems: Indigenous Model of Restorative Practices
Session Description: The Indigenous model of restorative practices is astrength-based approach that fosters stronger human relationships with each other within the constructs of our families, community, and educational, human services, and justice systems settings. Restorative Practices is based on Indigenous holistic philosophy and the “Relational Worldview” and mirrors the framework of other evidence-based practices & Indigenous practice-based evidence, such as Healing Informed Care/Trauma Informed Care, Social and Emotional Learning, and Motivational Interviewing. This session will provide participants foundational knowledge of the roots, values, philosophy, processes, practices, and multi-dimensional benefits of integrating Restorative Practices into programs and services for youth.
- Presenter: Stephanie Autumn, Director, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Moderator: Kara McDonagh, Program Manager, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
C4: National Native Children’s Trauma Center (NNCTC) – Session 2: Trauma’s Impact on Development
Session Description: This session focuses on the impact of trauma on how Tribal youth grow up and who they grow up to be, especially the impact that multiple traumatic experiences can have on achieving important developmental tasks and competencies. Participants will learn about complex trauma and how it may derail normal childhood and adolescent development and affect an individual’s ability to adapt to and cope with challenging situations. Particular attention will be paid to how trauma impacts attachment and relationships. This is the second module adapted from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s curriculum, Think Trauma: A training for working with justice-involved youth. Any professional working with Tribal justice-involved youth and their families will benefit from understanding trauma’s impact on child development. The goal is to educate professionals about the impact of trauma so they may have the knowledge necessary to respond appropriately to traumatized, justice-involved Tribal youth. Participants are not required to attend all sessions.
- Presenter: Veronica Willeto, Training and Technical Assistance Manager, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
D1: Resiliency Through Advocacy: Impact of Climate Change on Community Health and Well-Being
Session Description: This session explores the impacts of climate change on community health and well-being. Youth presenters will speak on how changes in the climate impact the options available to youth in Native communities, the resultant impacts on community health, and how community health impacts juvenile delinquency. The presenters will share the options available to youth in Native communities to strengthen advocacy and leadership skills in developing pro-active solutions to reverse climate change and how youth service providers can support youth efforts in these areas.
Presenters:
- Shace Duncan, Youth Ambassador, Tribal Youth Resource Center, Founder and Vice President of 7 Ravens non-profit
- Kaitlin Martinez, Youth Ambassador Mentor, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Sam Schimmel, Youth Ambassador, Tribal Youth Resource Center (Virtual Presenter)
- Isabella Fridia, Youth Ambassador, Tribal Youth Resource Center
Moderator:
- Laura Smith, Program Coordinator, Tribal Youth Resource Center
D2: Whittling the Circle from a Square Peg: How Translating Cultural Tools Bridge to Program Evaluation
Session Description: Indigenous peoples have long been skilled observers of the natural environment and the behavior of their relatives (two-legged, four-legged, winged nation, plant nation). Assessment, reflection, problem solving, and quality improvement practices are only a few evaluation examples our ancestors implemented for the sustainability and well-being of our people. This interactive session invites participants to learn how to develop a local level evaluation plan that engages youth, family, and community partners while focusing on increasing protective factors such as cultural connectedness.
- Presenter: Erin Thin Elk, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Moderator: Nan Benally, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Technical Assistance Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
D3: Supporting Youth Involved in the Justice System Through a Harm Reduction Model
Session Description: Harm reduction is an important part of a comprehensive approach to addressing substance use disorders through prevention, treatment, and recovery, where individuals who use substances set their own goals. Harm reduction programs incorporate a spectrum of strategies that meet people “where they are,” on their own terms, and can serve as a pathway to additional prevention, treatment, and recovery services. Harm reduction works by addressing broader health and social issues through improved policies, programs, and practices. This session will explore the intersection of substance misuse and justice involvement for Native youth and will provide participants with a youth harm reduction model that incorporates cultural classes, storytelling, restorative circles, wraparound services, as well as the use of risk and needs assessments.
- Presenter: Janel McFeat, Re-entry Program Manager/Strategic Planner, Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, WA
- Moderator: Stephanie Autumn, Director, Tribal Youth Resource Center
D4: Reintegration Approaches with Youth Involved in the Justice System
Session Description: Native youth involved in the justice system face multiple issues upon returning to school, family, and the Tribal communities and non-Tribal communities they return to post incarceration. This presentation will share information on diverse reintegration approaches, utilizing cultural and spiritual perspectives. Implementing culturally-based strategies to support family, school, and community reintegration can result in recidivism reduction and increase academic success. Strengths, challenges, and outcomes for youth involved in the justice system and their families will also be discussed.
Presenters:
- Ethleen Iron Cloud-Two Dogs, Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Craig Camp, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
Moderator:
- Deidra Flurry, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
Keynote Day 2 – Missy Whiteman & Reuben Crow Feather
E1: Alternatives to Incarceration: Innovative Approaches, Strategies to Address Challenges
Panel Description: This panel will include representatives of OJJDP-funded Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts and Tribal Youth Programs that work to provide alternatives to incarceration for youth involved in the justice system, as well as staff from the Tribal Youth Resource Center who have extensive experience in the field. The panel will discuss innovative approaches that are culturally-based, trauma-informed, and multi-disciplinary. Representatives will also share challenges that their programs have faced and highlight effective, practical strategies that they have successfully implemented to address those challenges.
Panelists:
- Daryl LaPointe, Director of the Youth Crisis Intervention Center, Winnebago Youth Shelter, NE
- Dave McArthur, Youth Program Manager, White Earth Nation, MN
- Ethleen Iron Cloud-Two Dogs, Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Tribal Youth Resource Center
Moderator:
- Stephanie Autumn, Director, Tribal Youth Resource Center
E2: All Rise: Healing to Wellness in Tribal Courts
Session Description: This session will feature Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court judges and their role facilitating the Court’s operation. Discussion will include planning court operations to incorporate wellness court services, participation in case management, making connections among the multi-disciplinary team, and building relationships with county/state courts. The panelists will also discuss what Healing to Wellness means to them as well as how their legal journey led them to rule in a Juvenile Healing to Wellness court setting.
Presenters:
- Chief Judge Lawrence King, Morongo Band of Indians, CA
- Judge Sherrie Harris, San Carlos Apache Tribe, AZ
- Pat Sekaquaptewa, Hopi, Justice, Hopi Appellate Court, Affiliated Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Alaska Native Studies & Rural Development (UAF DANSRD)
Moderator:
- Jacob Metoxen, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Tribal Youth Resource Center
E3: Innovation, Tribal Traditions, and Indigenous Environmental Protection Strategies
Session Description: The Tech Boom of the 1990s and 2000s brought an economic demand to the forefront that required national education policy makers, leaders, and organizations across the country to build programs that provide expanded opportunities for youth to advance their interests and competencies in the Science, Technology and Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. This session illuminates two OJJDP-funded Tribal Youth Programs – Pueblo of Acoma & Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe – who launched and utilized innovation, Tribal traditions, and Indigenous environmental protection strategies by integrating STEM & STEAM into their Tribal Youth Programs’ educational and cultural offerings. Both programs mirror a nexus of prevention and intervention approaches that advance academic, social, and emotional success, leadership, and positive self-efficacy, and instill the values of protection of the natural environment.
Presenters:
- Thor Peterson, Youth Program Staff, Pueblo of Acoma, NM
- Dolores Winn, Program Coordinator, Tribal Youth Program, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribal Youth Program
Moderator:
- Teresa Nord, Training and Technical Assistance Specialist, Tribal Youth Resource Center
E4: National Native Children’s Trauma Center (NNCTC) – Session 3: Trauma in Context and Coping
Session Description: This session provides an overview of the familial and societal context that leads to Tribal youth’s coping behavior when dealing with trauma. Participants will better understand the behaviors that Tribal youth develop to survive traumatic events, and what happens when these ways of coping are no longer appropriate. There will be an introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences and the impact they have on youth’s expectations. Participants will also learn about positive coping strategies and trauma-informed safety planning. This is the third module adapted from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s curriculum, Think Trauma: A training for working with justice-involved youth. Any professional working with justice-involved Tribal youth and their families will benefit from understanding how people and institutions around youth can make it easier or more difficult for them to recover from the impact of trauma. The goal is to provide professionals with the skills to respond appropriately to traumatized, justice-involved Tribal youth. Participants are not required to attend all sessions.
- Presenter: Marilyn Zimmerman, Senior Director of Policy and Programs, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
F1: Building Common Ground: Conflict Resolution Through an Indigenous Lens
Session Description: A successful program for Tribal youth must consider that conflicts will be a part of any effort to initiate and agree on project priorities, goals, strategies, resource allocation, roles and responsibilities. Thus, conflict resolution skills are essential for creating and sustaining successful relationships between people, community stakeholders, and other invested organizations. This session helps prepare participants to better understand and identify the root causes and dynamics of conflict and to transform disputes through reasoned and compassionate interventions. Led by a master trainer and practitioner in mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution, this presentation will include ways we develop self-awareness, learn the difference between interests and positions, as well as the role of interpersonal competency, how we build common ground, and how we open lines of communication with compassion. Participants will enhance their capacity to develop sustainable possibilities for resolution through a culturally informed and Indigenous lens.
Presenters:
- Gerry RainingBird, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Diana Nadeau, Dispute Resolution and Training Specialist, The Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education
Moderator:
- Deidra Flurry, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
F2: Developing Collaborative Education Partnerships with Schools and Others to Support the Work of the Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts
Session Description: This session will provide examples of how Tribal Youth Programs and Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts can collaborate with educators and education departments to build relationships that can support increased opportunities and engagement that will contribute to academic success for youth.
Presenter: Michelle Mitchell, Head of the Education Department, Confederated Salish and Kootenai, MT
Moderator: Jacob Metoxen, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Tribal Youth Resource Center
F3: Promoting, Evaluating, and Sustaining Tribal Best Practices
Session Description: Native people have been conducting and implementing a variety of practices to reduce risk factors for behavioral problems and health problems for hundreds of years, and these practices have been shown to be effective within their own communities. Participants will leave with an understanding of the challenges Native communities face with “Evidence Based Practices” and examples of culturally-validating “Practice Based Evidence” for Native approaches and programs. Participants will have an opportunity to review tools to codify Tribal practices currently being implemented in Native communities.
Presenter:
- Caroline M. Cruz, Health and Human Services General Manager, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
Moderators:
- Deborah Tobacco, Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Specialist, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Kara McDonagh, Program Manager, Youth Justice and System Innovation Division, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
F4: National Native Children’s Trauma Center (NNCTC) – Session 4: Trauma and Staff Wellness
This session is about the impact of trauma on staff wellness. Participants will look at how to practice staff wellness in a stressful work environment. The toll that working with traumatized youth can take on staff and the organization as a whole will be addressed. Participants will learn how to reduce their own stress and cope with those situations that are the most challenging for them while promoting their overall wellness. This is the fourth module adapted from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s curriculum, Think Trauma: A training for working with justice-involved youth. Any professional working with justice-involved tribal youth and their families will benefit from understanding trauma-informed practices are equally important for youth and staff. The goal is to teach professionals how to take care of themselves and seek support from others so that they may continue to of service to traumatized, justice-involved tribal youth. Participants are not required to attend all modules.
- Presenter: Debra Hallos, Clinical Consultant, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
G1: A Silent Epidemic: The Impact of Sexual Violence & Sex and Human Trafficking Against Boys & Men
Often, men are the neglected victims of all forms of sexual violence including being abused as boys. The presenter will discuss the impact of sexual abuse and violence against men and boys and provide resources and information on sex and human trafficking more generally. The presenter will also discuss mental health and relationship issues that are associated with victimization and will provide resources to help men and boys heal.
- Presenter: Lenny Hayes, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Moderator: Deborah Tobacco, Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Specialist, Tribal Youth Resource Center
G2: A Cross-Comparison of Juvenile Drug Courts and Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts
This session will provide a cross-comparison of active juvenile drug courts and juvenile healing to wellness courts. Presenters will share both similarities and differences that make each court unique, including policies and procedures, intake/assessment, case management, and funding sources. Attendees will hear about potential practices that could be adapted on both the juvenile drug court and juvenile healing to wellness court tracks.
Presenters:
- Kristina Pacheco, Adult Healing to Wellness Court Technical Assistant Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute
- Erin Thin Elk, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
Moderator: Jacob Metoxen, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Tribal Youth Resource Center
G3: Prevention & Intervention Strategies in Working with Native Gang-Involved Youth
Native youth gangs have increased dramatically over the past 20 years, bringing an increase of crime and posed dangerous health and safety challenges for youth, families, and Native communities in general. This session will provide an overview of promising gang prevention and intervention strategies that juvenile justice staff can adapt and utilize to develop an integrated approach that connects cultural and historical resources in working with Native gang involved youth.
Presenters:
- David Carson, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Craig Camp, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Reuben Crow Feather, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
Moderator: Stephanie Autumn, Director, Tribal Youth Resource Center
G4: Paving a Way to Partnerships: A Road Map to Cultivating, Engaging, and Retaining Native Youth Leadership
The panel will present varying perspectives on pathways to success for youth programming especially within the juvenile justice sphere. Partnering with those who have lived experience requires vulnerability, reflection, and intentionality. Their input will inform how justice systems can more effectively serve Native youth. This panel is a collaboration between Young Adult SAG members, Youth MOVE National, and the Tribal Youth Resource Center Youth Ambassadors.
Panelists:
- Sydney Matheson, Youth Ambassador, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Colby WhiteThunder, Youth Ambassador, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Kaitlin Martinez, Youth Ambassador Mentor, Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Shace Duncan, Youth Ambassador, Tribal Youth Resource Center, Founder & Vice President of 7-Ravens nonprofit
- Kyla Woods, Member, District of Columbia Youth Leaders in Action
- Tina Harris, New Mexico Juvenile Justice Advisory Board
Moderator: Jeri Brunoe, Consultant, Tribal Youth Resource Center
