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Profile in Youth Resiliency

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A session presented at the 2021 OJJDP Tribal Youth Virtual National Conference (Session B3). This session presented a digital storytelling event highlighting Pueblo of Tesuque youth, Jamie Crowe. In this session participants learned about one youth’s desire to stay on a positive path and overcome the vast impacts of the year 2020. Ms. Crowe shares her story and the desire to continue positive relationships, increase her education, and continue to adaptively engage within the local community and surroundings. Ms. Crowe’s story demonstrates youth resiliency to overcome challenging circumstances through personal accountability, individual goal setting, and family support.

Digital Smoke Signals: Using Technology as a Tool for Engagement

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A session presented at the 2021 OJJDP Tribal Youth Virtual National Conference (Session B1). Connection with youth is integral to enhancing both safety and accountability for individual youth and communities as a whole. There is a growing need for digital engagement to enhance Tribal Youth Program and Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court efforts, especially in times that require social distancing. This session focused on how communities can engage with youth through a variety of digital channels to ensure that tribal youth programs have the capacity to provide avenues for innovative programming. The session included grantee community examples that exhibit ways in which digital engagement broadens access to services. A variety of digital platforms and strategies for virtual interactions that allow for prevention and intervention to transcend challenges of space and time are explored.

Building an Indigenous Resilience- Focused Lens (Two Part Session)

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A session presented at the 2021 OJJDP Tribal Youth Virtual Nation Conference (Session A2 and Session B2) It is important to understand the risk factors for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth at risk or involved in the juvenile justice system in order to support safety and empower youth who may suffer from Childhood Traumatic Stress (CTS). CTS is the result of unaddressed exposure to trauma and contributes to increasing the negative impacts of risk factors. This session provided critical information about the impact of CTS on the risk factors that can lead to juvenile delinquency and negative involvement in the juvenile justice system and will build a foundation for participants to understand and utilize best practices and Indigenous knowledge to be able to address the impacts of CTS. Understanding risk factors will develop the skills needed to promote protective factors that support AI/AN youth empowerment and enhance family and community safety (Two Part Session).

OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model

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This publication provides a model for communities desiring to assess, intervene, and prevent youth gang activity in their local area.

Youth Gangs in Indian Country

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This fact sheet from the OJJDP provides information about youth gang activity in Indian Country and policy and practice implications.

Native American Involvement in Gangs

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This document provides information on gangs in Indian Country both in reservation and urban communities as well as highlights of programs working to prevent gang activity and involvement.

Adolescent Substance Use: America’s #1 Public Health Problem

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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.