Navajo Area
Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Center - Purpose Area 2
The Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Center’s (CCHCC) Hódzilee K’é Bee’adziil: Think Strong, Be Strong Project, is designed to address the significant source of morbidity and mortality in our communities. The CCHCC’s TSBS project offers an integrated behavioral health program to improve access to mental health care services, improve screening practices in the clinic, and offer comprehensive training to their staff and the community.
Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Center – Purpose Area 4
The Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Center's Nahat'áh Bee’ánooséé: Growing Leaders Project has two main goals: 1) sustain and expand the Youth Ambassador Program to promote positive self-sufficiency behaviors among Native youth; and, 2) develop and implement a media campaign to provide healthy lifestyles and good decisions when confronted with substance abuse within families and peer groups. With cultural preservation at the core, the project will establish Youth Ambassador led projects, programs, and activities that weave together the healing impacts of Navajo cultural foundations and the science of evidence based, emerging practice, and promising practices.
Crownpoint Health Care Facility
The Crownpoint Health Care Facility, early methamphetamine and suicide prevention and intervention program targets youth and young adults by using evidence-based practices intertwined with traditional and emerging Diné cultural wellness practices. Project staff provide training and awareness in substance abuse, methamphetamine and suicide prevention/intervention and postvention care to community members who are critical in youth prevention and intervention.
Fort Defiance Indian Hospital
The Fort Defiance Indian Health Board, Inc. (FDIHB) focuses on promoting early intervention, implementing evidence-based and best practice strategies, coordinating youth/family events and activities, and increasing access to clinical behavioral health services to reduce risk factors for substance use and suicidal behaviors for Native youth up to 24 years old.
Gallup Indian Medical Center
The Gallup Indian Medical Center’s (GIMC) project focuses on addressing suicide among American Indian/Alaska Native youth,ages 8 to 24 by promoting prevention and early intervention strategies. The project offers positive youth development, family education, support, and awareness through balancing and using western and traditional/cultural best-practices and evidence-based prevention intervention methods. Community activities and practices provide a platform for building and expanding awareness and prevention efforts to reduce risk factors for suicidal behaviors and substance abuse issues.
Navajo Nation Department of Behavioral Health Services – Purpose Area 4
The Navajo Nation Division of Behavioral and Mental Health Services (DBMHS), SASPP/MSPI project focuses on promoting positive Native youth development and family and community engagement by providing prevention, intervention and early postvention strategies to reduce risk factors for suicide and substance misuse. DBMHS offers evidence-based and practice-based approaches: Building Communities of Hope (BCOH) presentations to build resiliency, promote positive development and increased self-sufficiency behaviors among Native youth, including community and family engagement activities. DBHMS provides trainings in Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR), Youth and Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), Beginning Awareness Basic Education Studies (BABES) to Native youth and communities on a quarterly basis.
Navajo Nation Department of Social Services – Purpose Area 4
The Navajo Treatment Center for Children and Their Families (NTCCF) Program advocates for change to empower and strengthen families and communities by providing quality, holistic, cultural and value-based services. The mission assists in identifying the importance of incorporating the holistic approach to prevention and education to build resilience and promote wellness for youths and their families. The NTCCF program uses the evidence-based curriculums of Native H.O.P.E., The Good Road of Life (GRL), Gathering of Native American (GONA) model to provide and facilitate suicide and substance abuse prevention education and awareness in Navajo Nation schools, communities, state and local partners.
Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation
The Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation is increasing access to prevention activities for American Indian youth and young adults ages 8-24 years. The project provides culturally appropriate training such as safeTALK, Gathering of Native Americans (GONA), American Indian Life Skills (AILS), and Native HOPE (Helping our People Endure). The expected outcome of this training is for youth and young adults to strengthen protective factors that build resiliency, increase self-sufficiency, and reduce risk factors leading to methamphetamine and other substance use disorders that may contribute to suicidal behaviors. They will engage in prevention and intervention activities by establishing peer-to-peer support groups and talking circles.
Utah Navajo Health System
The Utah Navajo Health System, Inc. (UNHS) maintains integrated behavioral health services in all four UNHS health centers, with a focus on suicide prevention and intervention using models such as "safetalk," Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), and community coalitions. UNHS partners with local schools, local county mental health and social services, and natural community supports for suicide crisis response and postvention activities. UNHS has contracts with a board certified child psychiatrist and an addiction medicines psychiatrist to offer and increase pediatric and adult tele-psychiatry services.
Winslow Indian Health Care Center
The Winslow Indian Health Care Center (WIHCC) will address suicidal behaviors and substance abuse through early intervention for youth and young adults. They will use four strategies: education, engagement through special activities, training for school and youth services staff, and family/community outreach. These strategies are based on evidence and practice-based programs and curricula, and most importantly, their traditional teachings, for a comprehensive, culturally appropriate prevention and intervention approach.
