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Indigenous U.S. Women
The One Sky National Resource Center, funded by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in conjunction with
the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
is the First National Resource Center of its kind dedicated to the Prevention
and Treatment of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues in Indian Country.
The
Chief Gall Youth Regional Treatment Center provides drug and alcohol
treatment for adolescents ages 12 to 17 years of age who are enrolled as a member
of a federally recognized American Indian tribe in the Aberdeen Area. Chief Gall
is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation
of Rehabilitation Facilities.
The
Mental Health/Social Services program of Fort Thompson will provide comprehensive
and culturally appropriate mental health and social work services to eligible
American Indian/ Alaskan Native clients.
Our
mission is to help Native and Alaskan Native Americans maintain, regain or enhance
their social and interpersonal functioning through psychotherapeutic interventions,
preventive education and advocacy services.
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is a non-profit health organization
owned and managed by Alaska Native tribal governments and their regional health
organizations. The Consortium was created in 1997 to provide statewide Native
health services. Through its six divisions, the Consortium works in cooperation
with tribes, Native health organizations, and municipalities to achieve its goals.
Raven's
Way Adolescent Residential Treatment Program. Raven’s Way serves
Native and non-Native adolescents with primary diagnoses of substance abuse or
dependence from the state of Alaska. A cohort model accepting ten students at
a time, it incorporates traditional substance abuse treatment with experiential
and wilderness based components. It includes a 14-20 day backpacking or kayaking
expedition in Alaska rainforests on each course. Length of courses range from
37-45 days. Youth referred should be those who would benefit from a program that
includes physical challenges, group cooperation, and team building. Since Raven’s
Way is a voluntary program, participants must be willing to engage themselves
in an intensive, substance-free treatment program.
Friendship
House Association of American Indians, Inc. of San Francisco is
a community-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides residential
substance abuse treatment and outpatient services for Native Americans. Friendship
House is unique in its track record of providing a holistic treatment, recovery,
and prevention program culturally-relevant to American Indians in San Francisco
since 1963. Friendship House operates two residential facilities, one in San
Francisco with capacity of 80 beds for adults, and one in Oakland for substance
abusing American Indian women with their children. Both residential treatment
facilities are licensed and certified by the State of California Department of
Alcohol and Drug Programs. In addition, Friendship House is accredited by the Commission
on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.
Unity Regional Youth
Treatment Center -- Dedicated to breaking the cycle
of addiction and restoring hope and wellness to Native American Youth. Our primary
service area is the United South & Eastern Tribes (USET) adolescent’s
as referred by those Tribal Substance Abuse Programs. We accept referrals from
other Tribes on an “as available basis” with USET area receiving
first priority.
The
Navajo Area IHS Office, located in Window Rock, Arizona, administers
numerous clinics, health centers, and hospitals, providing health care to 201,583
members of the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation is the largest Indian tribe in
the United States and has the largest reservation, which encompasses more than
25,516 square miles in northern Arizona, western New Mexico, and southern Utah,
with three satellite communities in central New Mexico. (The Navajo Area coordinates
with both the Phoenix and Albuquerque IHS Area Offices for the delivery of health
services to the Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni Reservations because these reservations
are close to each other.)
Desert
Visions Youth Wellness Center -- Our facility offers a 24-bed residential
treatment center and is accredited by the Joint Commision on Accredidation of
Health Organizations (JCAHO). We offer a biopsychosocial treatment approach for
youth between the ages of 12 and 18. We primarily serve Tribes from the states
of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of California. We
are operated by the Indian Health Service (IHS), Department of Health and Human
Services.
Desert Visions is located on the Gila River Indian Community, 40 miles south
of Phoenix in Sacaton, AZ. Referrals are received from mental health professionals,
tribal substance abuse programs, and detention centers. Eligibility is based
on a primary diagnosis of substance abuse and dependency. Youth must be a member
of a federally recognized tribe with PRIORITY given to tribes served by the Phoenix
and Tucson areas, IHS.
NATIVE
AMERICAN REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHWEST, INC -- Founded in 1970 as an outpatient substance abuse treatment
center serving American Indian / Alaskan Native men, the Native American Rehabilitation
Association of the Northwest, Inc. has since expanded to include: a residential
substance abuse treatment center, an outpatient treatment center, women’s
intensive treatment, a primary health care clinic, family services program, and
a youth outpatient substance abuse treatment center.
The residential substance abuse treatment center serves men, women, and parent(s)
with children up to age 5. The outpatient treatment center provides onsite childcare,
family counseling, and parenting classes in addition to chemical dependency treatment.
The NARA Indian Health Clinic serves all family members, and provides specialized
health promotion programs focusing on diabetes, breast and cervical cancer, heart
disease among women and tobacco cessation counseling. The community resource
program has special focus on the Elders in the community. NARA’s Family
Wellness Program provides outpatient children’s mental health services,
family counseling, parenting education and substance abuse treatment services
to Native youth in the Portland-metropolitan area.
University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center -- The mission of the American
Indian and Alaska Native Programs (AIANP) is to promote the health and well-being
of American Indians and Alaska Natives, of all ages, by pursuing research, training,
continuing education, technical assistance, and information dissemination within
a biopsychosocial framework that recognizes the unique cultural contexts of this
special population.
There is a lot of information on this website that cuts across a number of
categories.
For example
the journal, American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health
Research, is an excellent (and free) resource for mental health programs, scientists
and evaluators, policymakers, and community members.
National Indian Youth Leadership Project (NIYLP) -- To engage Native youth
in challenging activities and meaningful experiences in the community and the
natural world preparing them for healthy lives as capable, contributing members
of their family, community, tribe, and nation.
Na’Nizhoozhi Center Incorporated (NCI) -- NCI recognizes there is a
clash between Western and American Indian world-views in delivering behavioral
health services and makes a conscious effort to resolve the clashes/tensions
for the benefit of our clients/relatives. Because we are funded by state
and federal dollars, we have accepted and adapted Western standards of delivering
behavioral health care in a culturally, congruent manner. A patient placement
criterion is used according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
to place clients/relatives in the appropriate level of care. However, NCI
also has traditional practitioners to conduct sweat lodge ceremonies and other
traditional interventions to facilitate the healing process from alcohol and
drugs.
The Addiction Web Site of
Terence T. Gorski -- Terence T. Gorski is an internationally
recognized expert on substance abuse, mental health, violence, & crime. He
is best known for his contributions to relapse prevention, managing
chemically dependent offenders, and developing community-based teams for managing
the problems of alcohol, drugs, violence, and crime. He has extensive experience working
with employee assistance programs (EAP) and has special expertise in working
with emergency professionals including fire, medical, and law enforcement. He
is a prolific author and has published numerous books and articles.
The Takini Network, Inc Board and staff have extensive experience in providing
and evaluating substance abuse and mental health intervention and prevention
services and programs in Indian communities. Our funding history includes: CSAP
grants in family strengthening, conference grant on historical trauma and parenting
curriculum development, a CMHS Community Action grant, the University of Denver,
and grants from the Fund of the Four Directions, the Public Welfare Foundation,
the Levinson Foundation, the Sister Fund, the Mott Foundation, and the Seventh
Generation Fund.
We are an independent affiliate of University of Denver Graduate School of
Social Work’s Center for Community Enrichment. The Takini Network can facilitate
historical trauma intervention studies for multiple populations, extending the
multicultural focus of our Models for Healing conference. We can also facilitate
family strengthening studies. Our work can be expanded to address youth violence
prevention, domestic violence, mental health promotion, resilience and recovery,
suicide prevention, and clinical intervention focused around trauma. Further,
we can also provide TA to projects/regions seeking to implement historical trauma
interventions, as we are now doing for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in
North Carolina. We can conduct regional historical trauma training across the
country and convene meetings/conferences on historical trauma, and continue to
advance historical trauma intervention as a best practice.
http://www.ihs.gov/NonMedicalPrograms/HPDP/BPTR/index.cfm?module=
BestPractices&option=Detail&BPTRSearchID=7272
Pragmatic Assessment Tools From
Evince Clinical Assessments
- This site has both instruments and some research findings on assessment
that would be helpful. The SUDDS-IV is uses by a number of programs in Indian
Country and the PADDI for adolescents seems to be catching on as well. Site also
has publications on the SUDDS-IV that show data on Native American/American Indian
groups.
Dr.
Yvette Roubideaux, M.D., a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, is an assistant
professor in both the College of Public Health and the College of Medicine at
the University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr. Roubideaux completed her M.D. at Harvard
Medical School in 1989 and received her M.P.H. at Harvard School of Public Health
in 1997. After completing the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship
in Minority Health Policy, she shifted her career in the direction of teaching,
research, and service related to Indian health issues and Indian health program
development. In 1998, Dr. Roubideaux completed a fellowship at the Native American
Center of Excellence, at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.
Originally from South Dakota, Dr. Roubideaux worked for three years in Arizona
for the Indian Health Service as a clinical director and medical officer at the
San Carlos Indian Hospital on the San Carlos Apache Indian reservation. She also
worked for one year as a medical officer at the Hu Hu Kam Memorial Hospital on
the Gila River Indian reservation. Dr. Roubideaux has dedicated her career to
improving American Indian health care, focusing on diabetes as a pervasive chronic
disease.
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