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.
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.
Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools was created to help high schools, school
districts, and their partners design and implement strategies to prevent suicide and
promote behavioral health among their students.
The purpose of this guide is to support AI/AN communities and those who serve them in
developing effective, culturally appropriate suicide prevention plans.
This briefing book benefits a variety of audiences on the the historical background on behavioral health issues for tribal leaders who direct health policy for their communities. It also informs tribal leaders and behavioral health workers addressing behavioral health issues in Indian Country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
