Friday, November 22, 2024
11/22/2024
First Nations Community HealthSource’s (FNCH), an urban Indian Title V health center, proposes to conduct the Native Connections Project (NCP), a suicide and substance use prevention and treatment program, to target American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) students, ages 5-18 years, attending the Native American Community Academy (NACA), in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In addition to students, NCP’s target population will include faculty, staff, parents and community members. With 60 faculty and staff members and a student enrollment of 400 spanning from kindergarten to grade 12, NACA is the only Native American Charter School in Albuquerque. Community participation and planning for NCP has already occurred. NACA has analyzed and assessed their substance use data and the school’s campus based coalition, HOPE, comprised of students, faculty, staff, community partners and parents, has met monthly to assess and plan for community wide initiatives to prevent alcohol-related suicide and its related behavioral health risk factors. FNCH will increase NACA’s capacity to develop and implement a strengths-based approach that incorporates EBPs, is coordinated, culturally appropriate and honors Native traditions and cultures to address substance use related suicides in NACA’s community. NCP will provide trainings using the Second Step curriculum to NACA’s 300 elementary and middle school students, Youth Mental Health First AID training to 20 parents and 25 urban Indian community members, Natural Helpers training to 12 middle school students Question, Persuade and Refer training to 60 NACA faculty and staff and 20 parents/family members in Question, Persuade and Refer and clinical behavioral health treatment and care coordination to youth determined to be at risk for substance use and/or suicide. A process and outcome evaluation will be completed.
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