Sunday, November 24, 2024
11/24/2024
The Toksook Bay Native Connections project will utilize our ancestral strengths and traditional Yup'ik ways of life to deliver an evidence-based prevention service program for our youth called Qungasvik (Tools for Life). Our vision for substance abuse prevention, suicide prevention and mental health promotion in Toksook Bay is to strengthen our identity as Yup'ik People. Our vision aligns with SAMHSA's National Tribal Behavioral Health Agenda (TBHA) which, "elevates the importance of tribal identities, culture, spiritual beliefs, and practices for improving well-being." The goals of our Native Connections project are to: 1) Increase the capacity of the Toksook Bay Tribe and community to provide prevention services, and to promote positive behavioral health at home for young people 10-24 years old. 2) Increase positive childhood experiences and protective factors for young people at risk (10-24 years) by implementing an evidence-based practice that builds Yup'ik strengths through culture and connections. 3) Decrease youth alcohol and substance misuse by implementing an evidence-based practice that increases protection against alcohol initiation and binge use. 4) Increase reasons for life and reduce risk for suicide by implementing an evidence-based practice that addresses the impacts of trauma and builds meaning and purpose for youth. 5) Increase healthy social connections and intergenerational interactions amoung youth, Elders and community. 6) Measure youth outcomes from the prevention services and gather community-level data on youth behavioral health and holistic well-being. Our Toksook Bay Native Connections project will serve the entire community of 650+ members through universal prevention strategies and Tribal gatherings. Culturally-centered selective and indicated prevention strategies will focus on engaging 150 young people 10-24 years who are at risk in the community in peer-based and Elder-led activities that promote positive behavioral health and holistic well-being. Our community has already shown in our first Native Connections project that we can be leaders of change and that we can come together to surround our young people with teachings, practices and resources from our culture and our ancestors. We seek to build on our growing foundation of hope and healing with this new Native Connections project and become a model for sustained community change.
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