Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Ponca Tribe's Domestic Violence Prevention Project - Abstract The Ponca Tribe is a federally recognized self-governing tribe with over 4,000 enrolled members. White Eagle is within the tribal jurisdiction with over 101,000 acres of land that sits 8 miles South of Ponca City, Oklahoma in Kay County and is home to over 450 Native Ponca Indians. The Ponca Tribe operates the White Eagle Health Center (WEHC). According to RPMS records, they have a total of 13,173 registered, active patients, and see an average of 235 patients per week. This funding will allow WEHC to serve any of the Native Americans who are registered patients. These active patients come from many different counties within Oklahoma. Kay County is one of the counties with a high rate of Domestic Violence. For every 1,000 Kay County residents, 9.9 experienced abuse. The Ponca Tribal Victim Services are meeting the needs if the community for victims, but this project will concentrate on prevention activities. A Project Director and Project Coordinator will be selected for this project. A team will be put together to establish a community coordinated response (CCR) system. Participants will include the court, law enforcement, Indian Child Welfare, Victim Services, Dearing House, and others. This project will be housed at WEHC. Providers and staff will be trained on how to do screening for domestic and sexual violence, mental health, child maltreatment, and bullying. If the client is determined to be at high risk for any of these behaviors, a referral will be made to the Project Coordinator. Prevention activities will be suggested. If an intervention is needed the patient will be referred to the Ponca Tribal Victim Services. Trainings will be provided to the providers and staff at WEHC as well as to some of the participants of the CCR team. These will include domestic violence 101, the domestic violence webinars offered by IHS, Strangulation, LGBTQ2s Intimate Partner Violence, Lethality Assessment, Domestic Violence in the Workplace, Mental Health First Aid and SOAR for Native Communities. We will use the evidence -based practice of Safe Dates to teach the Tribal youth about healthy relationships. Education and outreach will include a social media presence, public service announcements, radio ads, and a billboard. One of the messages on the billboard will educate people about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous women and girls. There also will be an annual Health Fair at WEHC. Healing through cultural activities will be encouraged. Developing resilience through strong relationships, strong communication skills, and connectedness to the community and to the history and traditions of the Ponca Tribe is how we will address prevention. The Program will use a trauma informed strength-based model to increase protective factors. Our goal is to increase access to domestic and sexual violence prevention, education, and community awareness through culturally appropriate practices. The federal request to support this program is $150,829 for year one.
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