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RESOURCES:

  • Alcohol And Drug Treatment Information Clearing House
  • Alcohol Cost Calculator
    A fascinating way to look at the impact of problem drinking in your community or workplace - in both human and financial terms.
  • AlcoholScreening.org
    A confidential self-test for patients about their drinking patterns, with individualized feedback about the relative risk of those patterns.
  • Department of Justice's 2000, Promising Practices and Strategies to Reduce Alcohol and Substance Abuse Among American Indians and Alaska Natives   ::   PDF icon  (787 KB)
  • Friendship House Association of American Indians, Inc. of San Francisco
    The mission of the Friendship House is to promote healing and wellness in the American Indian community by providing a continuum of substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery services that integrate the traditional American Indian healing practices and state-of-the-art substance abuse treatment methodology.
  • Na' Nizhoozhi Center Inc.
    NCI is classified by US-ISATS(Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services 2000) as the largest service provider in the US. In it’s ten year history as a multi-agency, non-profit, high volume-low cost facility, NCI has sheltered, detoxed, or treated over 250,000 residential Native American substance abusers.
  • National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Permanency Planning for Children Department
    National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Permanency Planning for Children Department works with judges and practitioner in juvenile courts to provide training and technical assistance in best practices in dependency cases.
  • National Indian Youth Leadership Project (NIYLP)
  • National Women's Health Information Website
  • Terence T. Gorski Substance Abuse Treatment Website
    This site has "best practice" principle information and "practical" information about substance abuse treatment. This site also contains a mental health articles: DSM-IV Psychological Breakdown of a Typical NCI Client
  • 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. For Further information from annbullock_md@hotmail.com
  • University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
    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, can be found at http://www.uchsc.edu/ai/ncaianmhr/journal/index.htm and is an excellent (and free) resource for mental health programs, scientists and evaluators, policymakers, and community members.
  • White Bison, Inc
    White Bison, Inc., is an American Indian non profit organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Through White Bison, it's Founder and President Don Coyhis, Mohican Nation, has offered healing resources to Native America since 1988. White Bison offers sobriety, recovery, addictions prevention, and wellness/Wellbriety learning resources to the Native American community nation wide. Many non-Native people also use White Bison's healing resource products, attend its learning circles, and volunteer their services.