This guide is designed for law clerks working in Indian Country and provides information on tribal courts, benefits and considerations for clerk positions, and a clerk’s role in the court. It also provides suggestions for judges on how to best work with law clerks.
This article describes an evaluation of a school and community based positive youth development program for American Indian and Alaska Native high school students in Oregon.
This youth community organizing guide describes how to work with youth to build the skills needed to make change in their community through a youth development framework. It includes 15 lessons as well as suggested forms, activities, and resources.
This paper describes the process of engaging youth in community work and building capacity of organizations and communities to ensure young people understand the responsibility and resources to create positive change in their community.
This report reviews issues relevant to American Indian and Alaska Native youth, systems they are involved in, and topics like education, jobs, land, and sacred sites.
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.
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 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.
This publication is designed to inform and facilitate awareness of and best practices related to dropout prevention and trauma-informed education.
