Oklahoma City Area
Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma “Following in Our Footsteps” initiative provides Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Services through outreach, health fairs, schools and community events. The project uses a Program Therapist at special events and activities to help encourage youth and engage family in positive development. Special events and activities such as creative arts though music lessons and art expressions, awareness walks and runs, prevention presentations, and cultural activities help promote resiliency and positive behavior for youth and families.
Anadarko Indian Health Center
The Anadarko Indian Health Center strives to promote youth development, including psychological, social, behavioral, and cultural enhancement, together with family engagement through implementing best practice early intervention strategies to reduce risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance abuse. The project provides culturally appropriate assessments, early identification, and multiple modes of treatment and prevention efforts for youth in need of services in collaboration with local agencies such as the Wichita RISE Garret Lee Smith Grant program, the Kiowa Injury Prevention Program, Local Tribal Health Board, and Riverside Indian School to enhance community awareness and improve intervention capacity.
Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is working to expand treatment and prevention services while using appropriate evaluation models added to measure and compare effectiveness. The project focuses on prevention, screening, and treatment of methamphetamine use; and provide patient and community education about substance use awareness.
Chickasaw Nation
The Chickasaw provides evidenced- and practiced-based programs that are culturally relevant and effective in influencing or changing knowledge, attitudes, and behavior about mental health and suicide. The project serves employees, Chickasaw citizens and their families, other eligible American Indians, and community members.
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma – Purpose Area 2
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma works to decrease the risk of suicide and the number of suicide attempts among American Indians living in their service area by increasing coping skills, improving mental health status, and improving the linkage to care; and creating system change to decrease suicide risk. They are also working to decrease substance abuse, increase community and professional knowledge of suicide, and increase the community capacity to seek assistance for youth at risk for suicide. This is achieved by offering screenings, assessments, strengthening case management, improving care coordination through building partnerships, provider training, utilizing the EHR community alert system to identify persons at risk, providing QPR training to community members, and developing system policies aimed at suicide prevention, intervention and postvention.
Choctaw Nation – Purpose Area 4
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma promotes positive AI/AN youth development and increases family engagement by using early intervention strategies aimed at reducing risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance abuse. Staff works closely with Jones Academy (CNO’s residential education facility) students and staff, local public schools, clergy working with youth, and community members in Pittsburg and Choctaw Counties. Efforts focus on implementing evidence-based and practice-based approaches (Positive Action, CAST, QPR, CBT, Ropes Course, and Stickball) to youth and staff at all sites and well as utilizing tele-counseling to reach off site families and increasing access to prevention activities (health runs, sports events, stick ball games) targeting youth.
Citizen Potawatomi Nation
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation offers a trauma-informed, culturally-competent program designed to cultivate and nourish the mind, body, and spirit by collaborating with internal and external community partners in carrying out their objectives, which consist of preserving Potawatomi culture and educating the community on Potawatomi history, traditions, art, and language through culturally relevant program. The staff continually offers substance prevention programs, after school homework and tutoring assistance programs, youth mental health referrals, summer programs, and community training to local educators and providers on topics such as bullying, suicide prevention and professional youth work. They will also provide community outreach at cultural activities, health fairs, monthly articles in the local newspaper, peer support groups, youth council meetings, and social media.
Delaware Tribe of Indians
The Delaware Tribe of Indians focuses on the growing substance abuse issue faced by their community through providing education and best practices,which ensure youth obtain top-of-the line prevention services. The project directs their attention to youth by incorporating evidence-based programs such as the SMART Moves and METHsmart curriculum and offering onsite behavioral health at the local Boys and Girls Club.
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma project is a comprehensive community effort offering a complete circle of culturally appropriate services through positive youth programming which focuses on restoring tribal youth as whole and functional citizens within the tribal community. Specific resulting outcomes from the project include personal development/relationship-building workshops, Family Circle events, Equine Therapy Classes, and QPR outreach sessions for positive youth development, tribal youth, and teachers at schools, tribal events, and/or other local organizations.
Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa
The Indian Health Care Resource Center (IHCRC) "Strengthening Our Native Youth" Initiative works to reduce risk factors for suicidal behaviors and drug use in Tulsa’s American Indian youth ages 7 to 16. The project consists of seven integrated parts: 1) training for youth using the American Indian Life Skills program in local schools; 2) Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR) training for all IHCRC staff; 3) youth gatherings to include cultural activities; 4) cultural camps for youth; 5) a powwow focused on youth mental health; 6) an ongoing monthly program for Native youth including drum group; and, 7) appropriate referrals for behavioral health and wellness.
Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska Boys and Girls Club implements the SMART moves and MethSMART program to help protect youth from engaging in drug and alcohol abuse, especially methamphetamine abuse. The Boys and Girls Club targets Native youth aged 6-9 years with the SMART moves program and follow up with the implementation of MethSMART for the same age group.
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
The Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma Behavioral Health Services currently offers suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention services to American Indian adults, adolescents, and children who live within the area of central Oklahoma served by the Tribal Health System. They provide a foundation for delivering and sustaining comprehensive, integrated, community-based, and culturally appropriate prevention and treatment services to American Indians and their family members who suffer from (or are at risk for) suicide or suicidal behaviors. The focus is to increase the capacity, effectiveness, and efficiency of suicide prevention services by reducing the prevalence of suicide and suicidal behaviors among the at risk population.
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
The Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma promotes early intervention strategies and implements positive youth development programming to reduce risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance abuse. The project facilitates American Indian Life Skills training at four local high schools and Riverside Indian School. They also offer evening QPR trainings to tribal programs, church programs, health programs, and parents, coordinate with tribal programs, elders and veterans to speak and teach cultural ways, and recruit tribal youth programs within the area to participate in suicide and Life Skill presentations.
Muskogee Creek Nation - Purpose Area 2
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation, acting through the tribal behavioral health and substance abuse department, increases the provision of suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention services currently offered to American Indian adults, adolescents, children, and families living in the area of rural northeastern Oklahoma served by the Tribe. The project started ongoing efforts that support delivering and sustaining comprehensive, integrated, community-based, and culturally appropriate prevention services to American Indians for at risk of suicide or suicidal behaviors.
Muskogee Creek Nation - Purpose Area 3
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation, acting through the tribal behavioral health and substance abuse department, increases the substance abuse prevention, treatment, and aftercare services offered to American Indians living within the 11-county area of rural northeastern Oklahoma served by the Tribe. The project created and provides the foundation for delivering and sustaining comprehensive, integrated, community-based, and culturally appropriate prevention services to American Indians who suffer (or are at risk) for methamphetamine or substance abuse.
Northeastern Tribal Health System
The Northeastern Tribal Health System (NTHS) promotes early intervention strategies and implements positive youth development programming to reduce risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance abuse. The project offers age-appropriate activities and programs for youth ages 8-24, focusing on prevention of methamphetamine use and suicide Programs and activities include the Running WILD mentorship program, My-Life/Man-Up Prevention Program, eating disorders awareness, suicide prevention events, youth and family counseling and therapy services, community based awareness events and campaigns, and training and development for NTHS-MSPI Behavioral Health Counselors.
Oklahoma City Area Office
The Oklahoma City Area Office “PATH (Policy, Assessment, Treatment, and Healing)” Initiative leads the Area federal clinics and hospitals in the development and implementation of the Zero Suicide approach. The project provides vital tele-psychiatric services to these sites and through these services patients will receive critical screening, assessment, and treatment for suicidality. Specialty consultation is also available to on-site clinicians to enhance available treatment.
Oklahoma City Indian Clinic – Purpose Area 3
The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic (OKCIC) is working diligently to address the substance abuse issues among American Indians living in Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. The project partners with other OKCIC departments, as well as the community, to 1) educate the American Indian community on substance abuse, 2) utilize Integrated Behavioral Health to screen, detect, prevent, and 3) provide early intervention services to their patients, and 4) screen patients ages 11-24 for substance abuse. The project offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment, individual and family counseling, and a youth mentoring program.
Oklahoma City Indian Clinic – Purpose Area 4
The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic (OKCIC) addresses the needs of at-risk patient and community AI/AN youth. The project is working to address the needs of at-risk OKCIC patients and community youth and their families by utilizing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), Teaching Urban Roads to Lifestyle and Exercise (TURTLE) camp, and stickball: And through partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services we provide education to the community.
Osage Nation
The Osage Nation provides the Too Good for Drugs curriculum, targeting grades 3-5, and the Too Good for Violence curriculum, targeting grades 6-8 for two grade school prevention programs, Safe Night After Prom (SNAP) events aimed at high students, and guides and supports the Wah-Zha-Zhi Youth Council. The project assists the youth council with hosting youth and family events in a safe, supportive, and substance-free environment in communities across Osage Nation. The events are in line with the Gathering of Native Americans (GONA) philosophy and serve as a resource for culturally sensitive prevention and awareness information with regard to methamphetamine use, substance abuse and suicidal behaviors.
Otoe-Missouria Tribe
The Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians is working to meet with the community to assess organizational resources and readiness to address factors contributing to suicide and ways to prevent suicide. The project is working to create a needs assessment that will be the guide to create a comprehensive strategic plan for the prevention and treatment of methamphetamine use and the prevention of suicide and substance abuse.
Pawnee Nation
The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma is working to encourage, empower and educate our youth and adolescents through presentations, cultural classes, a health summit, and cultural camps. The support group provides effective, positive promotion of choices being made by the adolescent ages involved. The use of evidence -based and best practice methods that include ABC’s of Relationships, Challenge Day, and motivational enhancement techniques provide positive information and instruction.
Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma
The Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma's overall goal is to provide a focused suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention program to all members of their community. The project is focused on expanding behavioral health services, training community members as Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR) gatekeepers, and implementing a youth enrichment program.
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation uses an evidence-based, strengths-focused, culturally sensitive suicide prevention and meth use intervention program through family centered engagement that promotes tribal cultural values and beliefs. The project is working to increase access to prevention activities through tribal stakeholders, families and youth, identify risks to methamphetamine use and barriers to seeking assistance and support. The result of measuring outcomes from the beginning to the end of participation strengthens the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation members’ resilience and promote self-sufficiency.
Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
The Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma is working to reduce risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance abuse in the Native youth population ages 10 through 24 and increase protective factors in a comprehensive community effort involving many partners. QPR and ASIST training is offered to Tribal employees and community members, including youth. The project offers evidence-based practices such as Wellbriety Circles/Meetings and Indian Life Skills and also cultural activities including regalia making, shawl making, hand games, jewelry making, and beading.
Wyandotte Nation
The Wyandotte Nation "Empowering Our Youth" Initiative is centered on creating a positive and fun environment for youth and young adults to become active and productive in leading healthy lifestyles. The project offers structure and meaningful activities to keep the youth engaged and active while promoting self-confidence, social competence, emotional control, leadership skills, intellectual flexibility, and cultural understanding through evidence and practice-based practices and holistic approaches. Through this structure, the program promotes early intervention strategies and implements positive youth development programming to reduce risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance abuse among youth.
