G1: A Silent Epidemic: The Impact of Sexual Violence & Sex and Human Trafficking Against Boys & Men
Often, men are the neglected victims of all forms of sexual violence including being abused as boys. The presenter will discuss the impact of sexual abuse and violence against men and boys and provide resources and information on sex and ...read morePresentation
F4: National Native Children’s Trauma Center (NNCTC) – Session 4: Trauma and Staff Wellness
This session is about the impact of trauma on staff wellness. Participants will look at how to practice staff wellness in a stressful work environment. The toll that working with traumatized youth can take on staff and the organization as ...read morePresentation
F3: Promoting, Evaluating, and Sustaining Tribal Best Practices
Session Description: Native people have been conducting and implementing a variety of practices to reduce risk factors for behavioral problems and health problems for hundreds of years, and these practices have been shown to be effective within their own communities. ...read morePresentation
F2: Developing Collaborative Education Partnerships with Schools and Others to Support the Work of the Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts
Session Description: This session will provide examples of how Tribal Youth Programs and Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts can collaborate with educators and education departments to build relationships that can support increased opportunities and engagement that will contribute to academic ...read morePresentation
F1: Building Common Ground: Conflict Resolution Through an Indigenous Lens
Session Description: A successful program for Tribal youth must consider that conflicts will be a part of any effort to initiate and agree on project priorities, goals, strategies, resource allocation, roles and responsibilities. Thus, conflict resolution skills are essential for ...read morePresentation
E4: National Native Children’s Trauma Center (NNCTC) – Session 3: Trauma in Context and Coping
Session Description: This session provides an overview of the familial and societal context that leads to Tribal youth’s coping behavior when dealing with trauma. Participants will better understand the behaviors that Tribal youth develop to survive traumatic events, and what ...read morePresentation
E3: Innovation, Tribal Traditions, and Indigenous Environmental Protection Strategies
Session Description: The Tech Boom of the 1990s and 2000s brought an economic demand to the forefront that required national education policy makers, leaders, and organizations across the country to build programs that provide expanded opportunities for youth to advance ...read morePresentation
E2: All Rise: Healing to Wellness in Tribal Courts
Session Description: This session will feature Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court judges and their role facilitating the Court’s operation. Discussion will include planning court operations to incorporate wellness court services, participation in case management, making connections among the multi-disciplinary team, ...read morePresentation
E1: Alternatives to Incarceration: Innovative Approaches, Strategies to Address Challenges
Panel Description: This panel will include representatives of OJJDP-funded Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts and Tribal Youth Programs that work to provide alternatives to incarceration for youth involved in the justice system, as well as staff from the Tribal Youth ...read morePresentation
D4: Reintegration Approaches with Youth Involved in the Justice System
Session Description: Native youth involved in the justice system face multiple issues upon returning to school, family, and the Tribal communities and non-Tribal communities they return to post incarceration. This presentation will share information on a variety of reintegration approaches, ...read morePresentation
D3: Supporting Youth Involved in the Justice System Through a Harm Reduction Model
Session Description: Harm reduction is an important part of a comprehensive approach to addressing substance use disorders through prevention, treatment, and recovery, where individuals who use substances set their own goals. Harm reduction programs incorporate a spectrum of strategies that ...read morePresentation
D2: Whittling the Circle from a Square Peg: How Translating Cultural Tools Bridge to Program Evaluation
Session Description: Indigenous peoples have long been skilled observers of the natural environment and the behavior of their relatives (two-legged, four-legged, winged nation, plant nation). Assessment, reflection, problem solving, and quality improvement practices are only a few evaluation examples our ...read morePresentation
