2016 Action Strategy Planning Guide for Tribal Leaders
This guide is designed to support tribal leaders through a streamlined strategic planning process to help create positive change in their communities.
Audience: Youth
The Indian Country Methamphetamine Initiative
This presentation by the One Sky Center provides an overview of methamphetamine use, its effects, and promising interventions in Indian Country.
An SBIRT Implementation and Process Change Manual for Practitioners
This manual is designed to be a resource for those interested in creating a sustainable Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program for substance abuse in their agencies
Prescription Drug Abuse in Indian Country
This presentation prepared by DHHS provides an overview of prescription drug abuse and its current rate and impact in Indian Country
Adolescent Substance Use: America’s #1 Public Health Problem
This report finds that adolescent smoking, drinking, misusing prescription drugs and using
illegal drugs is, by any measure, a public health problem of epidemic proportion, presenting clear and present danger to millions of America’s teenagers and severe and expensive long-range consequences for our entire population.
The Role of Culture in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
This article discusses how substance abuse treatment programs are integrating culture into treatment of American Indian and Alaska Native individuals.
Survey on Misuse and Abuse of Prescription Stimulants
This fact sheet describes results from a national study on the normalization of the abuse of prescription stimulants among young adults.
American Indian Culture as Substance Abuse Treatment: Pursuing Evidence for a Local Intervention
This article describes a collaboration between a university-based research psychologist
and a reservation-based substance abuse treatment program staff that has thus far resulted in a
detailed blueprint for a radically alternative, culturally-grounded intervention developed for reservation residents.
Community Readiness Manual on Suicide Prevention in Native Communities
This manual describes the Community Readiness Model and its use in Native communities as a tool to assess readiness for and implementation of suicide prevention efforts.
