Thursday, April 3, 2025
4/3/2025
California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc. Healing Our Own People (HOOP) Project - The California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc. (CRIHB) proposes involving 19 Tribal Health Programs and 59 Tribes in suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention training, technical assistance, and support suicide awareness activities. The significant disparity in rates of suicide for American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN) populations has led to AIAN being identified as priority populations for suicide prevention and intervention programs. The proposed CRIHB Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention project, hereafter referred to as the HOOP Project (Healing Our Own People), will address this by 1.) Improving care coordination; 2.) Expanding behavioral health care services through the use of culturally appropriate evidence-based and practice-based models to address these issues; 3.) Developing or expanding on activities for the Generation Indigenous Initiative by implementing early intervention strategies for AIAN youth at risk for suicidal behavior, in addition to any proposed activities for the adult population. The project will build on CRIHB’s successful track record of suicide prevention, substance abuse, and treatment efforts to implement evidence-based methamphetamine and suicide prevention and early intervention strategies in rural, Tribal communities throughout California. Suicide is often preventable, especially in situations where agencies support prevention/intervention and provide the knowledge which allows an individual to intervene with a person at risk. The HOOP Project will work with Tribal communities and Tribal Health Programs. The HOOP Project will build knowledge and increase the capacity of staff, providers, and community members to raise awareness, eliminate stigma, recognize the signs of suicide risk. The HOOP Project will help Tribal community members further develop the skill necessary to appropriately respond when concerned about the suicide risk of oneself or someone else. The HOOP Project will help Tribal communities in California develop the necessary skills to intervene when someone in the community is experiencing suicidal thinking or behaviors. These goals will continue to increase the capacity of the participating Tribal Health Programs to address suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention among AIAN youth, parents, and community members.
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