Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
TCRHCC is a nonprofit, tribal 638 organization in Coconino County, Arizona, and is the sole health care provider in this region of over 33,000 Navajo, Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiutes. TCRHCC is proposing to launch a Native Connections program to promote early intervention strategies and implement evidence- and culturally-based, positive youth development programming to reduce risk factors for youth suicidal behavior and substance abuse. The Navajo Nation’s mortality rate due to suicide is 35.1 per 100,000 persons, well above the 25.5 Arizona average, and the rate of morbidity related to alcohol use (2,493 per 100,000) is nearly three times the state average. These suicide- and substance misuse-related concerns begin in our youth. Nearly 30% of high school students surveyed in the most recent Navajo Youth Risk Behavior Report (NYRBR) had experienced a major depressive episode in the past year (35.9% of females and 22.9% of males). Compared to U.S high school students, Navajo Nation high school students were 91% more likely to have attempted suicide in the past year and 30% more likely to have made a suicide plan in the last year. About 1 in every 4 middle school students having tried marijuana, alcohol and prescription drugs. TCRHCC will build upon the existing strengths in our Native youth and communities to: • Establish and implement a community-based Native Connections plan to enhance coordination among youth-serving agencies. (Implement at least 4 of 5 initiatives identified by Community Advisory Committee.) • Develop protocols to ensure youth at risk for suicide receive timely follow-up services to ease their transition into treatment. (Increase number of follow-up care referrals for at-risk youth by at least 20% in each grant year.) • Develop community “postvention” protocols for responding to suicides, suicide attempts, and suicide clusters to promote community healing and reduce the possibility of contagion. (Provide services to impacted peers/communities within 2 days of suicides or suicide attempts, and implement a peer mentor program in at least 5 local schools.) • Raise awareness of suicide prevention strategies through delivery of mental health awareness training to communities within TCRHCC’s service area. (Deliver at least 4 mental health awareness trainings per year to youth allies, and implement life skills curriculum in at least 5 local schools.) • Reduce the rate of youth substance misuse within TCRHCC’s service through prevention strategies. (Disseminate public education related to youth substance misuse prevention through at least 5 medium per year.)
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