Monday, April 29, 2024
4/29/2024
The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony (the Numu, Wa-She-Shu, and Newe People) propose to develop expanded suicide prevention services for Native Americans living in Northwestern Nevada. The prevention program will be modeled on Science-Based Prevention Programs for Native American communities developed for Indian Communities, The White Bison Institute and by the American Indian Life Skills model. The proposed project will provide long term substance use and suicide prevention services to 4,562 Native Americans over five years. The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony is a Self-Governance Tribe operating all the health programs formerly managed by the Indian Health Service, with the exception of the Office of Environmental Health and Engineering. For the past six years, the tribe operated the Meth & Suicide Prevention Initiative (MSPI) pilot grant. The benefit to the Suicide Prevention program is the availability of wrap-around services for the patient, including behavioral health, medical, pharmacy, diabetes, residential substance abuse treatment, specialty care and all other health services. The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony is experiencing rates of suicidal behaviors that are 30% to 40% higher than that of other people in Nevada and the nation. Over the past ten years the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony has worked to plan and develop responses to these issues by implementing programs for both youth and adults. Existing adult programs include outpatient alcohol/drug and mental health care, family advocate services, and limited referral to residential care. Current youth programs focus on prevention/intervention and include youth alcohol/drug support groups, violence intervention, latch key groups, mentoring, a youth intern program and limited access to outpatient counseling. The proposed prevention project will build on these existing resources. The project is proposed for a five year period to serve 4,562 Native Americans on an annual budget of $300,000.
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