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Audience: Prevention Programs

Native American Youth 101

This review developed by the Center for Native American Youth provides information on the historical context and current status of Indian Country and Native American Youth and youth priorities to consider.

Truancy Prevention Efforts in School-Community Partnerships

This brief by Safe Schools Healthy Students discusses definitions and extent of truancy, risk factors, past approaches, effective approaches, examples of innovative approaches, economic consequences of truancy, and examples of truancy reduction approaches from Safe Schools/Healthy Students sites.

Rural Dropout Prevention Issues & Solutions

This guide provides a wealth of information on designing and implementing a successful dropout prevention initiative in a rural school environment. In addition to the research noted in the publication, it offers suggestions and ideas drawn from practitioner-based experiences found in rural schools across America.

Graduation for All

This presentation composed by the Bureau of Indian Education discusses the school drop out risk factors and predictors affecting Native youth, drop out prevention, prevention programs, and strategies.

Tribal Attendance Pilot Project

This report highlights the goals, data, barriers and outcomes of the Tribal Attendance Pilot Project (TAPP), a project developed by representatives from the nine federally recognized tribes in Oregon to reduce absenteeism of American Indian and Alaska Native students in nine schools.

Native American Dropout Prevention Initiative

This is the evaluation report for the third year of the Native American Dropout Prevention Initiative (NADPI), a three-year grant that was awarded to the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) in April 2006 by the United States Department of Education.The purpose of this evaluation report is to document and assess project activities and to summarize major cumulative outcomes of the project over its three years.

A Victim-Centered Approach to Domestic Violence Against Native Women

This resource guide was developed to provide a starting point for drafting or revising tribal laws on domestic violence.This resource guide includes examples from a variety of tribal codes and discussion questions which are designed to help tribal community members
decide on the best laws for your community.

Beginning the Dialogue: Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, & Teen-Dating Violence

This report discusses the findings from a project that engaged Native American communities in California about the topics of family violence issues including domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and teen-dating violence. The published results include information gathered and strategies developed to address the needs of Native victims of family violence.