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Title: U'S' Department of Health and Human Services DHHS


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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA)
Native Aspirations Our children are the songs of
our future
Montana Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council May 27,
2006 Presented by Paulette Running Wolf,
Ph.D. Project Manager
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Native Aspirations Our Children Our children are
the songs of our future
Topic Guide
Topic Guide
  • What is Native Aspirations?
  • Kauffman Associates, Inc. (KAI) Who we are
  • Overview of Project
  • Community Selection
  • Inventory of Evidence-Based Interventions
    (EBIs)
  • Project Flow Chart
  • Project Participation
  • Project Oversight Panel
  • Technical Assistance
  • Project Evaluation
  • Benefits and Obligations to Project Participation
  • Next Steps
  • Project Contact Information
  • What is Native Aspirations?
  • Kauffman Associates, Inc. (KAI) Who we are
  • Overview of Project
  • Benefits and Obligations to Project Participation
  • Planning in Indian Country
  • Resources for Planning Native Aspirations Model
  • A glance at sustainability
  • Ten Recommendations to Tribal Leaders
  • Project Contact Information

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What is Native Aspirations?
  • A national project to address youth violence,
    bullying, and suicide prevention through
    evidence-based interventions and community
    efforts.
  • Working with nine American Indian and Alaskan
    Native (AI/AN) communities.
  • SAMHSA contracted with Kauffman Associates,
    Inc. (KAI) to implement this national project.

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Native Aspirations Our children are the songs
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KAI - Who we are
  • KAI is a SBA certified 8(a), HUBZone,
    woman-owned, and American Indian-owned business
    enterprise under contract with SAMHSA to
    implement Native Aspirations.
  • KAI has a 16-year track record of providing
    high-quality management and research consulting
    services.
  • KAI is built upon a culture that values
    commitment to and passion for our work, with the
    understanding that our work can improve the
    health, wellness, and potential of those we
    serve.
  • KAI has waived any profit Important work!

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Community SelectionTwo-Step Process
  • Quantitative Analysis of national data sets to
    select the three highest risk IHS regional
    service delivery areas.
  • Regional Stakeholder Nominations were conducted
    to determine the three communities most in need
    of project services in each IHS Area.

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Quantitative Analysis
  • Based on this analysis, the following IHS
    regional areas were selected
  • Aberdeen Area
  • Alaska Area
  • Billings Area

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Regional Stakeholder Nominations
  • Purpose of nominations to identify three
    communities within each IHS Area.
  • Stakeholders from the Aberdeen, Alaska, and
    Billings IHS Areas were asked to nominate the
    communities most in need of project services.

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  • Aberdeen IHS Area
  • Pine Ridge
  • Crow Creek
  • Cheyenne River
  • Billings IHS Area
  • Fort Belknap
  • Fort Peck
  • Wind River
  • Alaska IHS Area
  • Alakanuk Native Village
  • Savoonga Native Village
  • Noorvik Native Village

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Native Aspirations Our children are the songs
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Evidence-Based Interventions Inventory (EBIs)
  • American Indian Life Skills
  • Project Venture
  • Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
  • Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) Gatekeepers
    Training
  • Reconnecting Youth
  • Signs of Suicide (SOS)
  • Yellow Ribbon
  • Only AI/AN Evidenced Based in SAMHSA registry

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Native Aspirations PLAN (Sept 15, 2005 March
15, 2007)
PHASE II
PHASE I
PHASE III
Identify EBIs and PBIs (January 5-8, 2006)
EBI Inventory, Research, and Literature Review
Site Visit -Communities (March 2006)
TOT for Community Reps (Seattle, WA April
2006)
Community Selection
  • Community Planning
  • Supervisory Panel
  • Coordinated Team
  • Consolidate Resources

9 Community Mobilization Planning Sessions
(April-May, 2006)
Community Implementation (April 2006-March 2007)
KAUFFMAN ASSOCIATES, INC.
Evaluation Design
Evaluation Reporting
Evaluation Implementation
Final Project Report
Data Security/ IT
Project Monograph
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Native Aspirations Our children are the songs
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Project Participation
  • Resolutions and/or support letters
  • Selection of a community to participate
  • Identification of lead tribal/Alaska Native or
    school contact
  • Identification of oversight panel

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Project Oversight Panel
  • Suggested Oversight Panel members
  • Tribal/Alaska Native administrator (1)
  • School administrator (1)
  • School counselor, teacher, or coach (1)
  • Community member (1-2)
  • Youth (1)

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Oversight Panel Suggestions
  • Keep the panel relatively small
  • Meet frequently
  • Designate a tribal or village council member to
    whom the panel can report
  • Imperative that two or more tribal or village
    council members participate in the Community
    Mobilization and Planning event

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Oversight Panel Responsibilities
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Native Aspirations Our children are the songs
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Technical Assistance
  • CMP Event
  • Community Plan
  • Cross Agency
  • Collaboration
  • Centralized TOT
  • EBI/PBI Training
  • High Risk Youth Issues
  • Prepare for CMP
  • Project Evaluation
  • Evaluation Design
  • IRB Application
  • Data Collection
  • Online Reporting
  • Project Implementation
  • Assist Oversight Panel
  • Identify Resources
  • Tracking
  • Media Response

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Native Aspirations Our children are the songs
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Benefits and Obligationsto Project
Participation
  • Development of a written community plan for
    Suicide, Violence, and Bullying Prevention!
  • Project Resources
  • TOT travel and honorarium for three participants
  • CMP Expert trainers, food, and facility costs
    (1,000.)
  • Implementation budget (15,000.)
  • Cross-agency collaboration

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Benefits and Obligations (continued)
  • TA Support
  • Respond to evaluation objectives
  • Community Readiness Pre/Post Assessment Report
  • Evaluation Report
  • Identify additional resources
  • Project Monograph

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Native Aspirations Our children are the songs
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Native Aspirations Formula
GONA Process Team Building
Community Readiness Assessment
Prevention Curricula Support for Culture Based
Intervention
High Risk Youth Issues Strategies
Knowledge Transfer
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Native Aspirations Our children are the songs
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Multiple Roads to Planning
  • Provider Driven IHS tribal providers
  • Education Driven Public Tribal Schools
  • Tribal Community Driven Grass-roots community
    members
  • Youth Driven Student councils, Native Hope

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Joining hands in the battle!
  • Why join hands? Sustainability
  • What happens if you dont join hands?
  • Territorialism continues
  • Resources not managed efficiently
  • Planning is reactive vs.- proactive
  • Focus on intervention vs.- prevention

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Ten Recommendations
  • Community driven plans supported by service
    providers schools MOA
  • Ground planning in cultural/spiritual values
    beliefs
  • Develop multi-agency referral systems with
    existing resources systems of care!

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Recommendations Continued
  • Implement screening process
  • Establish/Improve Management Information systems
    data collection
  • Provide community wide gatekeeper screening
    training (on-going)

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Native Aspirations Our children are the songs
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Recommendations Continued
  • Form Crisis Response Teams (historical response)
  • On-going evaluation of plans
  • Tribally driven research to establish evidence
    for tribal/culture based interventions!
  • Collaborate with the state in addressing youth
    issues (e.g., state educational policies)

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Project Contact Information
Jay LaPlante, Community Coordinator Phone (509)
747-4994 jay_at_kauffmaninc.com Gloria Guillory,
Assistant Project Manager Phone (509)
747-4994 gloria_at_kauffmaninc.com Brenda Bruun,
SAMHSA Project Officer Phone (240)
276-1838 brenda.brunn_at_samhsa.hhs.gov
Jo Ann Kauffman, KAI President Phone (509)
747-4994 joann_at_kauffmaninc.com Paulette Running
Wolf, Project Manager Phone (406)
732-4240 paulette_at_kauffmaninc.com Susie
Amundson, Director of Research Phone (509)
747-4994 susie_at_kauffmaninc.com
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Kauffman Associates, Inc. 165 South Howard
St., Suite 200 Spokane, WA 99201Phone (509)
747-4994 Fax (509) 747-5030 www.kauffmaninc.com
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