Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
The Lake Traverse Reservation is the home of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (SWO) Tribe—a Federally-recognized Tribe. The Reservation is located in northeastern South Dakota and part of southeastern North Dakota. The Reservation has approximately 110,000 acres of land in trust and multiple parcels of land and buildings in fee status within the town Sisseton (Roberts County), SD. SWO has a current enrollment of about 14,000 Tribal members, about 6,000 of whom reside on the Reservation. The proposed SWO Mental Health Awareness Training initiative, led by the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Housing Authority (SWOHA), will bring first-of-its-kind training resources to the Lake Traverse Reservation, delivering eight-hour evidence-based Youth Mental Health First Aid training sessions to over 280 individuals annually. Suicide is an epidemic on the Lake Traverse Reservation, however youth are particularly vulnerable. For this reason, the identified “population of focus” will include youth.
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