Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The Native Connections program will implement a new program for our community called Sources of Strength. Sources of Strength reaches youth to connect them to understand how healthy activities, generosity, spirituality, medical access, mental health, family support, constructive friends, and mentors will support their positive choices in life. The Sources of Strength program will enhance Southern Indian Health Council, Inc.’s ability to provide the foundational concepts for community youth to understand their traumas, inter-generational traumas, the reasons why not to turn to illegal drugs or alcohol, and to seek help when thoughts of ending their own life edges into their awareness. Sources of Strength has been effective in Native American communities for example in Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Alaska Federation of Natives, White Earth Reservation (Minnesota), Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, and the Native American Health Center in Oakland, California. The peer leader component of the program will be supported with the start of a Youth Advisory Council. The project will occur in several different locations with the coordination of the programs, services, functions, and activities to prepare youth for a life time. Native youth in our community needs a program that will support staff to follow the youth’s growth during their early developmental stages of life. This will include case management to assure the youth are properly seeking youth services offered by Southern Indian Health Council, Inc.’s Indian Child Social Services (ICSS), Prevention & Early Intervention (PEI), La Posta Substance Abuse Center (LPSAC), and Boys & Girls Club of Kumeyaay Nation Wellness. This Native Connections program is solely dedicated in the prevention of youth suicide and substance abuse, reducing trauma(s) effects, and stimulating cognitive, behavioral, and emotional wellbeing.
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