Youth
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Indian youth gather for the 13th annual Native American Youth Leadership Conference to address suicide, in Billings, MT.
The training the youth received was based on the Native H.O.P.E. (Helping Our People Endure) model.
The Native H.O.P.E. curriculum is based on the theory that suicide prevention can be successful in Indian Country - by Native Youth being committed to breaking the "Code of Silence" which is prevalent among all youth. The theory is also premised on the foundation of increasing "strengths" as well as warning signs and awareness of suicide among Native Youth.
The theory supports the full inclusion of Native Culture, traditions, spirituality, ceremonies, and humor.
This three day Native Youth Leadership curriculum was developed by Clayton Small, Ph.D. and Ernie Big Horn Jr., MS, and piloted successfully in the Billings Area and through the IHS National Suicide Prevention Network (NSPN).
This highly interactive model has themes and concepts from the SAMHSA model program, "Gathering of the Native American Natives" (GONA),
which was recently named as one of the ten Effective Practices and Models in Communities of Color.
It also incorporates components of the North Dakota Adolescent Suicide Prevention Project, which received an award from the American Public Health Association in 2005,
for its role in a sustaining a 35 percent reduction in the number of suicide fatalities among young North Dakotans.
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Accessing Native American Trainig (ANAT)
Clayton Small, Ph.D.
10328 Chandler NW
Albuquerque, NM 87114
Phone: (505) 897-7968
Cell: (505) 321-2808
Email: Claytonsmall@aol.com
Ernest Bighorn, Jr., BS, MA
Indian Development & Educational Alliance (IDEA)
P.O. Box 726
Miles City, MT 59301
Phone: (406) 853-6631
Fax: (406) 234-3148
Email: ugotanidea@yahoo.com
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Tabitha Knell, Alaska Native, remarks at the IHS and First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) MOU Suicide Prevention meeting held on February 10, 2006,
in Albuquerque, NM. This meeting followed the Indigenous Suicide Prevention Research & Programs in Canada and the United States conference,
which occurred February 7-9, 2006.
Tabitha's Comments
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