Great Plains Area

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe’s program provides targeted, culturally appropriate prevention; intervention and postvention program services to individuals and through school and community based educational trainings on the risks, assessment, and treatment opportunities for residents suffering from methamphetamine abuse and for those who exhibit suicide behaviors.

Fort Thompson Service Unit

The Fort Thompson IHS Service Unit, located on the Crow Creek Reservation, has a primary goal to save lives and to promote healing through 1) Zero Suicide clinical practices; 2) the White Bison 12-steps to Wellbriety program; and 3) the Mending Broken Heart curriculum and activities. The program provides integrated and culturally relevant services utilizing the Red Road to Wellbriety Suicide Prevention curriculum to promote community engagement and to expand and coordinate individual suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention activities.

Kyle Health Center

The Kyle Health Center Behavioral Health Care Department project provides school-based awareness and suicide prevention activities for middle and high school students who reside in the remote, northern part of the Oglala Sioux reservation. The “Signs of Suicide” curriculum is the evidenced-based curriculum provided to youth in five area schools. The goals of the program are to; 1) integrate traditional health activities, 2) increase family engagement, and 3) strengthen the cultural identity of the Oglala youth.

Oglala Sioux Tribe

The Oglala Sioux Tribe uses a strengths-based, positive youth development approach to conduct early prevention of suicide and substance use with youth ages 8-14. Their objectives are to, 1) utilize the Project Venture curriculum to build resiliency, promote positive development, and increase self-sufficiency among our youth; and 2) promote a strengths-based focus on suicide and substance use prevention through family and community engagement in Walls of Hope. The individual, family, and community approach represents multi-level interventions that promote change by capitalizing on the strengths of the Oglala Sioux culture and traditions.

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska

The "Against the Current " program provides community-based education awareness and prevention activities on substance use disorders and suicide in two public schools using the American Indian Life Skills (AILS) curriculum and through community events that are culturally integrated. The program, 1) collaborates with the Umo’hon alcohol and drug program for culturally directed recovery and healing, 2) maintains a youth peer mentoring program, and 3) hosts an annual summer youth camp.

Ponca Tribe of Nebraska

The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska utilizes the Project Venture curriculum throughout their service delivery area for youth ages 8-24. The project staff promotes family and community engagement by building awareness of services by hosting family education events and increasing access to prevention activities for youth.

Rosebud Sioux Tribe

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Tokala Inajinyo Suicide Prevention and Mentoring Program, is divided into 3 service components: 1) community and school based prevention activities; 2) strengthening and coordinating substance abuse and suicide clinical assessment and intervention services; and 3) Youth peer mentoring training program activities. Monthly community prevention activities raise awareness of methamphetamine, opioid, and suicide behaviors and services available for assessment and treatment.

Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska

The program provides services to youth ages 6-14 utilizing the Lakota prevention curriculum, titled “Learning Prevention, Using Lakota Values. For youth ranging in ages from 15-24, services based on Wakan, a culturally adaptation of the Matrix Model is an intensive 16-week course and youth are referred by the school or family. The program also provides assessment and referrals for therapeutic interventions. The program also holds on-going community educational and cultural activities.

Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate – Purpose Area 3

The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of South Dakota, Mayuteca Day Treatment Center provides substance abuse use disorder treatment services in a non-residential setting utilizing three levels of care; 1) outpatient, 2) intensive outpatient, and 3) partial hospitalization. Participants are voluntary, referred by State, tribal, federal court orders or participate in order to fulfill parole and sentencing conditions. The certified staff of the SASP program also provides community based education workshops on a bi-annual basis focusing on substance abuse prevention and intervention services available to the residents of the Dakota tribal nation.

Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of South Dakota – Purpose Area 4

The program works in collaboration with other community based programs to implement evidence-based and culturally relevant suicide prevention and intervention services for the Lake Traverse youth. The program provides 1) equine psychotherapy; 2) a youth and family tree program that focuses on substance use and mental health prevention and intervention services; and 3) community educational program activities that focus on building resiliency and coping skills.

Spirit Lake Tribe

The program implements community and school based suicide and substance abuse prevention education to; 1) students and young adults ranging in age from 10 to 24 years old, utilizing the American Life Skills Curriculum (AILS); 2) culturally integrated community activities; and 3) through providing training opportunities for the Spirit Lake Crisis Response Team on best practices and strategies for suicide prevention.

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Band

The program raises awareness about suicide and methamphetamine use through; 1) the implementation of a multimedia campaign, 2) hosting community forums and health fairs, and 3) the continuity of the youth ambassador and mentorship program based on the Sources of Strength curriculum.

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

The programs’ primary goal is to raise individual resiliency and community awareness of substance abuse and suicide risk factors through the, 1) implementation of regularly scheduled community prevention education and training activities, and 2) maintenance of the Winnebago Youth mentoring program that provides on-going culturally activities, and 3) referral and direct therapeutic intervention services for youth ages 8 to 24.

Yankton Sioux Tribe – Purpose Area 3

The programs’ primary objectives are to, 1) expand substance abuse assessment, referral for out and in-patient placement through a partnership with Lewis and Clark Treatment Center, 2) provide training for staff on best practices, and 3) provide community education and training All community and individual activities are held based on the traditional Dakota values of respect, wisdom, and compassion.

Yankton Sioux Tribe Boys and Girls Club – Purpose Area 4

The goal of the program is to prevent the use of alcohol and other drug use by youth ages 9-18 residing in the Wagner and Lake Andes, South Dakota communities. Programming includes the implementation of the 1) SMART Moves Meth Smart curriculum to encourage positive health outcomes and to reduce self- harm, and 2) to sustain the aide/youth mentorship and hosting culturally relevant activities.