Friday, April 26, 2024
4/26/2024
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) will partner with the Lower Yukon School District (LYSD) on the “Promoting Resilience Education in Villages to Enhance Native Traditions (PREVENT)” project. The project will focus on 10 rural Alaska Native (AN) communities in the Yukon Kuskokwim region in southwest Alaska. The project will develop, implement, and evaluate a trauma-informed, community-based system of care for AN children and youth (grades K-12 in the LYSD) with mental health challenges and their families. The goals of the project are to: 1) design a community based coordinated system of care to support mental health for children, youth, and families in up to eight sites in the LYSD, and 2) increase the capacity of LYSD to address mental health challenges of youth and promote resilience of LYSD youth and families through implementation of the system of care. The PREVENT project will focus on development of a community-based system of care for children and youth with mental health challenges, and their families. The Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model will be adapted to support a cohort of LYSD employees as they learn and integrate Calricaraq (a traditional Yup’ik approach to individual and community wellbeing) and the Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency framework (ARC, an evidence-based approach to trauma treatment) into a coordinated system of care in the district. The project will serve a total of roughly 2,030 students in the 10 schools of the LYSD. A needs assessment of all schools in year one will determine which eight schools will be the target of the pilot program in years two and three. It is estimated that 871 students will receive services in year two and 974 new students will receive services in year three. Due to the limitations of grant funding, two schools will not be reached by the end of the grant period.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
