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Category: Tribal Youth Program Training

Dealing with the Invisible Suitcase: An Overview of a Workshop for Resource Parents

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While this training is intended for foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers, all caregivers can benefit. This webinar will make participants aware of the profound impact trauma has on children’s development and functioning, and introduce the concepts of the “Invisible Suicide” and the Cognitive Triangle. By learning techniques for helping traumatized children understand and control their emotional and behavioral reactions, participants will be reassured that children can heal from the effects of trauma and will discover the role that resource parents play in the healing process. This webinar comes from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s training curriculum, Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents. A brief overview of the full training offering will be included.

Protecting Our Most Vulnerable – Unsheltered and Runaway Youth

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This will be the first of a TYRC Online Learning Event series focused on the needs and current service gaps of unsheltered and runaway Native youth across the country. The series will also provide information on the correlation between unsheltered and runaway Native youth with being at a higher risk of becoming a victim of sex trafficking and human trafficking or becoming justice involved. The series will include structured PPT presentations and interactive activities that will increase participants’ knowledge of the issue, impacts of these issues on Native communities, and increase knowledge of prevention & interventions strategies to reduce the occurrence of unsheltered and runaway youth in Native communities. Participants will also be provided tools and resources to support seeding work in their Native community on the issue if they choose.

Trauma-Informed Practices for Schools

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This training provides an overview on trauma-informed practices for schools within a multi-level system of support. Best practices for responding to students within the school system are addressed. Interventions and Social Emotional Learning Curricula designed to mitigate the effects of trauma are covered in an overview format.

Experiential Learning & Healing Programs for Native Youth

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The online learning event highlights:
1) Project Venture is an evidence-based and strength-based outdoor experiential program available to middle-school and high school age students; it is also the only cultural science based curriculum in the country. Mac Hall, founder of Project Venture, will provide an overview of Project Venture. Dolores Winn, Tribal Youth Coordinator, Saginaw Michigan Tribe, will share the implementation strategies and impact of Project Venture for their Tribal Youth program.

2) Delaney Apple (Lakota) provides an overview of the Horse Healing Camps he has planned and implemented in Rapid City, South Dakota. Delaney also focuses on the importance of partnerships and community volunteers to sustain cultural & healing-based youth programs.

Youth Leadership: Our Journey, Our Story, Our Voice

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The Online Learning Event (OLE) is meant to serve as the “next step” in the continued learning conversations between the State and Tribal Relation Assistance Division (STRAD), Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court (JHWC), and Tribal Youth Program (TY) grantees. The OLE is facilitated in a panel format and features two young adult representatives from the Center for the Coordinated Assistance to States (Kyla Woods & Tina Harris) and two Youth Ambassadors from the Tribal Youth Justice Resource Center (Sydney Matheson & Kaitlin Martinez).
Each of the youth representatives is an informed youth leader who is working in their respective communities to advance the voice and needs of youth. The speakers share the highlights and positive impacts of contributing and participating in the 2022 OJJDP STRAD & Tribal Youth National Conferences: 1) Meetings with Administrator Ryan and other OJJDP staff; 2) attending STRAD & TY sessions; and 3) being provided a platform to share their lived experiences and vision to contribute in the future to juvenile justice policy, research, and program development. These powerful young leaders also share how their voices can be the voices of every community represented at the STRAD & Tribal Youth conferences.

Suicide Prevention – Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) Resource

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In this online learning event, participants are provided with an overview of best practices that are utilized for suicide prevention. Community readiness for change and how this applies in implementing an EBP is discussed. An overview of the Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) approach and how to access this EBP resource is also provided.

Affecting Change in Tribal Juvenile Justice Systems by Decolonizing Mental Health Services and Integrating Indigenous Ways of Being

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The Online Learning Event facilitator provides resources for Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention (OJJDP) Tribal Youth Program (TYP) grantees, OJJDP Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts (JHWC) grantees, and other Tribal communities to assess and build capacity to respond to the mental health needs of Tribal youth in their communities. In addition, the session covers strategies through which to support the expansion of internal and external partnerships to improve mental health services for Tribal youth.

Strengthening and Sustaining Collaborative Relationships

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This session focuses on how collaborative relationships are sustained in our tribal youth work, including ways in which they can be identified and how to strengthen them in culturally informed ways. We discuss what works well and how our tribal communities can continue to experience the benefits of tribal best practices that address sustainability. Finally, the session includes the importance of active engagement by all community partners and dedication to careful planning. Attention to community partnerships needs to be continued throughout the strategic planning process and implementation phases to ensure continuity and success. Sustainability as a guiding principle must be fully integrated into each step of our strategic planning.