C4 – Engagement and Community Belonging
This session will cover how the Cherokee Nation Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court (JHWC) uses culture in their rehabilitation process. The presenters will share case studies demonstrating how their engagement techniques have been instrumental in helping shift youth and ...read morePresentation
B4 – Intrusion of Fentanyl in Our Society
This session will cover the need to be informed about the fatal risks of fentanyl use, the proper use of Narcan (Naloxone), and the reality that fentanyl affects everyone. The goal of the presentation is to raise awareness and hope ...read morePresentation
A4 – Native-Tribal Strengths-Based Approaches
This session will cover the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Tribal Restorative Practices, as part of their Juvenile Healing to Wellness Program. The program uses Elders Panels and mentoring to help youth repair from hurt and harm.Presentation
Protecting our Most Vulnerable – Strengthening Supports for Unsheltered & Runaway Native Youth (The 2nd of a 4-part Online Learning Event Series)
This will be the second of a TYRC Online Learning Event series focused on the needs and current service gaps of unsheltered and runaway Native youth across the country. During this Online Learning Event (OLE), Frankie White Dress, Director, Oglala ...read moreVideo
Friends of the Children
Aligned with traditional kinship systems, Friends of the Children’s (FOTC) paid professional mentoring model provides youth with individualized, relationship-based support from age 4-18 (pre-K through high school graduation). We will explore how the holistic, relationship-centered model helps Indigenous children and ...read morePresentation
7th Generation Mentoring Program
The vision of the Seventh Generation Kinship Framework is to build lasting relationships between Native youth and caring adult mentors within their community employing the following strategies: Connection through one-on-one mentoring and group cultural activities; Enhance the cultural identities of ...read morePresentation
After School Native Mentoring Program
The After School Native Mentoring Program (ASMP) was developed using the four themes from the Gathering of Native American (GONA) curriculum to enhance the process of an afterschool program (Belonging, Mastery, Interdependence & Generosity). This curriculum incorporates peer-to-peer facilitators, prevention, ...read morePresentation
Authentically Partnering with Indigenous Youth
The Tribal Youth Resource Center Young Leaders and Mentors (TYRC-YLM) are excited to share their successful experience in partnering with OJJDP TYRC as a youth resource for Tribal grantees. This TYRC-YLM panel will share the importance of partnering with Tribal ...read more
The Importance of Culture in Uplifting Indigenous Youth
The Tribal Youth Resource Center’s Young Leaders will share their traditional arts, talents and stories that have contributed to their well-being and resilience. These culturally grounded coping methods serve as inspiring examples of how to navigate adversity in a healthy ...read morePresentation
Promoting Trust and Respect for Our Youth
In this session, TYRC Consultant, Joe CrowShoe, and TYRC Events and Communications Coordinator, Hannah Ellman, will offer learnings from a new Tribal Youth Resource Center project and publication, the TYRC Inherited Magazine, with the goal of uplifting and amplifying Indigenous ...read morePresentation
Indigenous Peoples Breathing Data Back (TEDxUArizona)
Indigenous peoples have been successfully working with data for millennia, and Dr. Stephanie Russo Carroll posits a way to bring “databack” into relationship with our messy, 3D, colonized world at TEDxUArizona. Discover the power of Indigenous Data Sovereignty and its ...read more
