Meaningful and Ongoing Engagement of Tribes and State Courts in Child Protection
This presentation developed by the National Center for State Courts discusses engagement and collaboration between state and tribal courts with considerations regarding ICWA, technology, training, and improvement.
A Guide for Tribal Court Law Clerks and Judges
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 ...read more
Healthy & Empowered Youth: A Positive Youth Development Program for Native Youth
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.
Youth Power: a Guide to Community Organizing
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.
Core Principles for Engaging Young People in Community Change
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.
Our Identities as Civic Power: 2017 State of Native Youth Report
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.
Native American Youth 101
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.
Truancy Prevention Efforts in School-Community Partnerships
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.
Rural Dropout Prevention Issues & Solutions
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 evidence-based research noted in the publication, it offers suggestions and ideas drawn from practitioner-based experiences ...read moreDocument
Graduation for All
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.Presentation
Tribal Attendance Pilot Project
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 ...read more
