Bemidji Area
Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians – Purpose Area 3
The Bad River project is using the Matrix Model and Red Road to Wellbriety curriculums in their day treatment program and their social support groups. The project holds monthly care coordination meetings with mental health and social services programs. The project has a crisis call system and a suicide/mental health referral website for clients, professionals, educators, family and friends who might need support with substance abuse or thinking about suicide.
Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians – Purpose Area 4
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians project provides behavioral health counseling to youth ages 3-24 and their families within the school district and community. The project has a behavioral health therapist who specializes in child, adolescent and family services who has been working within the Ashland School district and the Bad River Head Start program. The Family Foundations program uses the evidence-based "Growing Great Kids" curriculum and holds monthly mother and child play time events to promote family engagement and the Healthy Start program uses the culturally appropriate evidence-based "Family Spirit." The project also conducts an annual New Year’s Eve Sobriety Pow-wow.
Bay Mills Indian Community
The Bay Mills Indian Community Boys and Girls Club is conducting The SMART moves curriculum for ages 6-12. The program teaches decision-making and leadership skills in order to increase awareness of the risks associated with drug/alcohol use/abuse, thus building self-confidence in their youth and parents. The goal is to provide a wrap-around approach to health and wellness by implementing substance abuse, including methamphetamine, and suicide prevention education.
Bemidji Area Office
The Bemidji Area Office project collaborates with the IHS Tele-Behavioral Health Center for Excellence (TBHCE) to expand behavioral health services in the Bemidji Area, but also supports tele-behavioral services in the Albuquerque, Billings, and Great Plains IHS Areas. The project conducts an annual Bemidji Area Behavioral Health Conference that provides trainings, breakout sessions and continuing education credits for health care providers, mental health counselors, substance abuse counselors and tribal members. The project partners with various state and federal agencies providing Suicide Prevention Gate Keeper trainings and train the trainer events for Safe Talk and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST).
Cass Lake Hospital
The Cass Lake Hospital project is addressing the recent spike in suicidal ideations through the implementation of a four member Suicide Prevention Team. The project is implementing a universal screening tool (The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale C-SSRS) throughout the Leech Lake Reservation and training the health care employees at the Case Lake Hospital and School Counselors at local Native American Schools. The team will work with the community partners to help coordinate cultural activities to promote cultural health in all dimensions and reinforce the importance of cultural identity as a resiliency factor. They will work to create a health care culture where mental health problems do not need to be hidden, secretive, or negatively stigmatized; and encourages the community to seek out the help they need in order to lead healthier life styles.
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
The Grand Traverse project is implementing evidenced-based and practice-based approaches to build resiliency, promote positive development, and increase self-sufficiency behaviors among Native youth. The prevention specialist meets monthly with each satellite facility to empower the youth by implementing the white bison’s curriculum. The project promotes family engagement through their Families of Tradition program which meets and works on sewing projects bonding through the adults helping the youth with their projects. During suicide awareness month the project participates in the Traverse City's "Out of Darkness" walk as well as presenting the Turtle Concepts during a suicide prevention education presentation for the community.
Ho-Chunk Nation
The Ho-Chunk Nation "Naacpi Kjj" "Make Yourself Well" Initiative is developing and implementing mental health early intervention strategies for young people 6-24 years old to reduce risk factors for suicide and substance abuse. Through components of the Red Road Curriculum, a locally constructed prevention curriculum, Taa t”aap (t-ah-t-ump) or "Jump." Through a new Elder Advisory Team the project will reintroduce and strengthen traditional values and customs for a balanced holistic and practiced-based approach to wellness. The Program Coordinator hosts Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Trainings (ASIST) and Safe Talk trainings in the community.
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
The Keweenaw Bay project is addressing suicide prevention through teaching Ojibwe culture and traditions by the use of mentoring activities and family engagement. They are providing cultural activities during each season that will incorporate cultural traditions taught by mentors and/or elders. It is believed that teaching stories of the past will help connect one to their future. Their goal is to reduce the risk factors of substance abuse and suicidal behaviors amongst their youth ages 8-24 years. This will create a culture of Ojibwe teens who have increased self-esteem, accountability, a sense of responsibility and the persistence to learn.
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
The Lac Courte Oreilles project delivers the Smart Moves/MethSmart curriculum at the Boys and Girls Club to youth ages 10-12 and youth ages 13-18. They provide services for our teen population after school as well as our teen girl's leadership group "Images." The project also partners with the local prevention programs and set up booths to hand out prevention resources to all community members. The Behavioral Health Department also continues to engage with the curriculum delivery and provide the project with a Prevention Specialist two nights per week after school at the Boys and Girls Club.
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
The Little Traverse Bay Band (LTBB) project provides tribal and community-wide prevention programs, education and suicide awareness in order to develop uniform policies, procedures, and a referral mechanism. The primary target population are high-school aged American Indian youth living in Emmet County, as well as those youth utilizing LTBB Health Park services. The project provides prevention and risk assessment programming at one local school to identify at-risk youth. The project participates in the training of their staff; provides outreach at community events; screens 100% of their youth clients for depression and suicide risk; developed a Health Park suicide policy and procedures; implemented an internal referral processes; and developed an external referral mechanism.
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
The Red Lake project provides individual counseling and support to their youth through their Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Suicide Prevention Wellness Counselors, and additional Comprehensive Health staff. The CHS Suicide Prevention Coordinator implemented the Hope Squad curriculum in the Red Lake Middle School which became the first school in the state of Minnesota to implement the Hope Squad curriculum and they are on track to become the first to implement the Hope Squad curriculum district wide, which would bring the suicide prevention curriculum to the elementary school, middle school, and high school aged students. They provide counseling services in the schools and homes promoting positive development, resiliency, and self-sufficiency, whereby creating a positive healthy lifestyle for our youth.
White Earth Band of Chippewa
The White Earth project is promoting the positive development for American Indian youth ages 8-24 years and family engagement through the implementation of early intervention strategies to reduce risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance abuse. They use the safeTALK ASIST, Seven Grandfather Teachings, and SMART Moves curriculums throughout the community, schools, and Boys and Girls Clubs, as well as implementing methSMART for youth in aftercare. They will involve the youth with prevention activities such as in developing Public Service Announcements. They will engage the whole family in the treatment process and increase the number of cultural and other activities available for families.
