Friday, November 22, 2024
11/22/2024
The name of our project is, Santa Clara Pueblo Behavioral Health Connections-2023. We are applying for Tier 2, Selective Prevention Strategies for addressing the needs of at-risk young tribal members up to 24 years old. Our rationale for prioritizing this tier in our community is based on the fact that we do not know additional specific mental health issues that exist in our community. In order for our Pueblo to effectively respond to an overall mental health promotion approach as well substance and misuse among the community, we need additional data. We believe that the Tier 2 requirements will allow us to target a prevention strategy with specific target population, especially since we do have data from 2012 that can strongly support our request to SAMHSA. We also believe that an assessment and SAMHSA technical support can assist us in fostering, administering, and analyzing data we receive from a community assessment. The outcome of a community assessment will also allow us to identify additional mental health issues and needed resources from community, that we otherwise do not know at this time due limited data collection and newly established collaborations. The four goals we have identified for our project are as follows: Goa1: Expand Santa Clara Pueblo services and support for youth and young adults to reduce the impact of mental health, substance abuse, and prevent suicide. Objective 1: To identify current services and support that exist and serve Santa Clara Pueblo members who are identified as youth and young adults with a focus on LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex individuals). Objective 2: Update and distribute a community resource guide that identifies metal health services, substance abuse, and suicide prevention for youth and young adults. Goal 2: Continue to provide community driven array of services to support at-risk youth and young adults and their families. Objective 1: Update and distribute a service map that identifies where services exist within our community. Objective 2: Finalize a tribal action plan. Goal 3: Establish a community assessment process that can be used as a foundation to develop and/or enhance services. Objective 1: Develop and administer a follow-up community assessment to be used in our community. Objective 2: Analyze community assessment feedback. Objective 3: Develop a report for tribal council and community members that reflect assessment results. Goal 4: Expand our youth and young adult wrap-around service delivery system that includes community stakeholder input and community service collaboration. Objective 1: Create an advisory team based on commitment letters and stakeholders to ensure continuity of team function. Objective 2: Continue to develop wrap-around services focused on youth and young adults for our community that includes Pueblo resources for mind, body, and spirit wellness. Objective 3: Create and distribute brochures that educate community members about our service to ensure appropriate amounts of outreach. The Pueblo believes that in order to create a path of wellness and resiliency for our youth, we must find ways to not only support our youth, but establish grounded learning through culture and tradition. Despite our historical trauma, we believe that it is our responsibility to preserve our culture and tradition by taking control of all our programs and services to ensure that we not only prevent illnesses that impact a healthy person but also intervene in the early stages of growing trends in mental health, including the factors and indicators related to suicide. Our Pueblo community population is approximately 2,500 tribal community members, but that does not mean that we do not experience mental health and suicidal behaviors at any less than a larger community, per capita. Our goal would include to serve 250 community members per year during the 5-year project.
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