Albuquerque Area
Eight Northern Indian Pueblos, Inc. (ENIPC)
Since its inception, ENIPC, Inc. PeaceKeepers has worked to provide culturally appropriate comprehensive services aimed at increasing victim safety and protection; promoting community education and awareness about the impacts of violence on families and communities; providing services to victims and their families; and addressing offender accountability. The project provides culturally appropriate prevention trainings on suicide, methamphetamine, and other substance abuse in the Eight Northern Pueblos and surrounding communities.
Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, Inc.
The Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, Inc. is strengthening and improving the health of its community members by providing prevention and intervention services focusing on youth, family, and tribal officials in the Pueblos of Cochiti and Zia. The current focus is on the prevention and intervention of methamphetamine and other substance abuse, and awareness of suicide behaviors, enhancing traditional and cultural resiliency skills through community activities such as language preservation, traditional arts and crafts, and other cultural events.
Ohkay Owingeh Boys and Girls Club
The Ohkay Owingeh Boys and Girls Club of America uses the SMART Moves and MethSMART programs as early intervention strategies in order to provide prevention education that will reduce risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance abuse in youth ages 6-18 years. Implementing the MethSMART curriculum after the SMART Moves curriculum has created a comprehensive evidence and practice-based prevention program that strongly focuses on the issues surrounding methamphetamine and other drugs and self-harm in Native Communities.
Pueblo of Acoma
The Pueblo of Acoma Behavioral Health Services (PABHS) has expanded its current efforts to address methamphetamine abuse and suicide in Acoma youth and young adults ages 8-24 years. The project addresses approaches to building resiliency, promoting positive development, and increasing self-sufficiency among Native youth, while increasing access to prevention activities and promoting family engagement.
Pueblo of Isleta
The Pueblo of Isleta, Prevention Program continues to provide culturally sensitive prevention and intervention activities that address mental health, substance abuse, and suicide awareness. The Pueblo of Isleta works with youth participants, incorporating indigenous values and practices in order to reduce levels of involvement in risky behaviors.
Pueblo of Sandia
The Pueblo of Sandia is working to enhance the capacity of providers and community members to recognize and respond to suicidality. The Pueblo of Sandia provides: 1) training to their medical and education staff in QPR; 2) development and implementation of a community-wide campaign to honor National American Indian/Alaska Native Suicide Awareness Day; and 3) enhancing community access to evidence-based suicide prevention and intervention services by implementing two separate community-based mindfulness groups for youth and adults.
Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc.
The Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc. promotes positive youth development and family engagement by implementing early intervention strategies to reduce risk factors for suicidal behaviors and substance abuse. The Ramah Navajo Youth Council provides youth with an opportunity to have a role in solving local community issues related to substance abuse and suicide; as well as provide positive development, youth leadership opportunities, and build resiliency. The program provides Youth Mental Health First Aid and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) to increase self-sufficiency behaviors and increase the capacity of the Ramah Navajo Community to continue to operate successful substance use and suicide prevention services.
Santo Domingo Pueblo
The Santo Domingo Pueblo, Kewa Family Wellness Center provides youth development skills training to youth in grade six at the local elementary school. These activities are made possible through partnerships with the National Indian Youth Leadership Project and the Santo Domingo Community School. Youth development activities follow the Project Venture curriculum and include in-school, afterschool and weekend sessions.
Southern Ute Indian Tribe – Purpose Area 3
The purpose of the Southern Ute Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative Project is preventing suicide and methamphetamine use on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation by: increasing capacities of community leaders; increasing skills of the Division of Social Services (DSS) practitioners; increasing community knowledge via a public community awareness campaign against methamphetamine use; as well as through increasing substance abuse refusal skills of youth. The Southern Ute Indian Tribe is developing a procedure for providing prompt and responsive referrals for clients with acute detoxification and primary treatment needs.
Southern Ute Indian Tribe – Purpose Area 4
The Southern Ute Indian Tribe project has three programmatic efforts: 1) enhance the existing Project Venture evidence-based program (developed by the National Indian Youth Leadership Program) targeting middle schoolers; 2) continue the expansion of Project Venture activities to high school youth through the Project Venture Peer Leader program; and, 3) develop, maintain, and continue expansion of suicide prevention activities through gatekeeper training and marketing the gatekeeper function to the community at large.
Pueblo of Taos
The Pueblo of Taos CORE: Community Outreach, Resilience and Empowerment project: 1) engages Native youth in the Taos Municipal Schools in education, community, and culture; 2) Provides a conduit for Native Youth to access all Tribal and non-tribal resources available to them; and, 3) fosters relationships with the students prior to their entrance into the Middle School or High Schools of the Municipal School system by having a presence in the BIE K-8 school located on Taos Pueblo. The design of this program allows the Pueblo of Taos to serve the American Indian population attending the Taos Municipal Schools, Vista Grande Charter School, and the Taos Pueblo Day School, with the means to reach at risk students and provide youth with the necessary tools to succeed in their educational, wellness, and community attachment pursuits.
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe suicide prevention program focuses on improving care coordination, provider education, promoting community education, improving organizational practices, updating policies to reflect best practices, and continuing to develop strategies to implement trauma informed care services and programs.
