Mental Health and Wellness: Tribally Focused Strategies to Decrease Juvenile Delinquency
Facilitators: Jordan Gibson, Craig Camp, Ethleen Iron Cloud-Two Dogs, Cortney Yarholar This webinar focuses on promoting mental health in remote Tribal communities with limited resources. The session will explore tribally informed approaches, community-based strategies, and practical tools to bridge gaps ...read more
Drug Trends in Indian Country-Cannabis and Youth Healing to Wellness Courts – A Three Part Series
This webinar explores the current adolescent drug trends in Indian Country with a focus on cannabis, related substances, and the implicated Youth Healing to Wellness Court eligibility requirements, and policies and procedures.
Motivating and Incentivizing Youth Toward their Goals in Youth Healing to Wellness Courts (YHWCs)
This webinar will introduce attendees to the Youth Healing to Wellness Court (YHWC) model, including case (wellness) co-planning, goal setting, and the development of a YHWC incentive/Sanction Protocol that may be used to motivate youth to achieve their pro-social goals, ...read more
Parenting Programs and Prevention of Tribal Youth Delinquency
Tribal Youth programs have services for youth and families that are intended to prevent and address youth involvement in the justice system. The Tribally-focused parenting programs information is intended to expand the capacity of parents/families to prevent youth/juvenile delinquency. Facilitators: ...read more
Resilience And Reconnection: Our Stories Of Contemporary Indigenous Parenting
Visit this online resource for Stories of Contemporary Indigenous Parenting. Letter from the Editor: "How often have you come across a story about Indigenous parenting in the media? It’s a question I asked myself while putting together the stories collected ...read more
Developing an Indigenous Measure of Overall Health and Well-Being: The Wicozani Instrument
A Native community developed the Wicozani Instrument, a 9-item self-report measure, to assess overall health and well-being from an Indigenous epistemology. The Wicozani Instrument measures mental, physical, and spiritual health and their importance to an individual’s quality of life. The ...read more
Healing Frameworks: Understanding ACEs in Indigenous Communities
This resource is from the National Indian Health Board (NIHB), which is committed to advocating for the health and well-being of Indigenous communities. One of their key initiatives focuses on addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which are traumatic events occurring ...read more
Tribal Boarding School Toolkit for Healing
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide those who work in AI/AN communities with information, resources, and suggested activities for talking about and healing the generational traumatic impacts boarding schools have had on AI/AN individuals, families, and communities.
Native American Discussion Guide for Grief and Bereavement
The purpose of this discussion guide is to foster humility and awareness among communities andorganizations of the Native perspectives on loss, grief, mourning, and bereavement. This guide does not explain specific ceremonial rituals. It provides information on the cultural strengths ...read more
Bullying Prevention in Schools, Juvenile Justice, and Other Youth Serving Agencies
This webinar focused on strategies that youth-serving entities—such as schools, community organizations, and the juvenile justice system—can use to prevent and respond to bullying. The session emphasized education on what bullying is and is not, as well as its short- ...read more
Developing Sustainability in Tribal Youth Programs
Facilitators: Gerry RainingBird, Jordan GibsonDescription: This webinar explores the key elements needed for sustainability. Attendees will learn how to build community support, strengthen organizations, and ensure long-term effectiveness. Covered topics include community ownership, partnerships, evidence-based practices, and ways to track ...read more
