Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The Culture, Connection, & Healing for Urban Indigenous Families project will serve American Indian (AI) youth ages 9 - 24 and their parents/caregivers. Proposed interventions will address substance misuse and suicide among AI families in Maricopa County and increase resiliency factors through evidence-based curriculum, coalition work, and community-based prevention education. It is estimated that the project will provide direct services to 1,675 youth, parents/caregivers and AI service providers over the project lifetime. Programs to be implemented are the Living in 2 Worlds (L2W), Parenting in 2 Worlds (P2W) curriculum, Gathering of Native Americans (GONA) workshops, historical intergenerational trauma workshops, safeTALK, ASIST, QPR, and community-based coalition activities. Abbreviated goals and objectives of the project are: Goal 1: Increase resiliency in urban AI youth and families. Objective 1.1: By the end of each year, 15 urban AI middle-school youth in the Phoenix area will increase by 3% their use of the R.E.A.L drug resistance strategies to resist drugs taught in the evidence-informed L2W as measured by baseline pre- and post-survey data for each of the 5 years. Objective 1.2: By the end of each year, 60 AI youth/young adults between 9-24 in the Phoenix area will report increased positive development through participation in culturally appropriate workshops, such as storytelling, ribbon skirt making, and drumming, as measured by participant counts, satisfaction surveys and a retrospective survey for each of the 5 years. Objective 1.3: By the end of each calendar year, for the target group of urban AI youth ages 9 - 24 in the Phoenix area, increase the number of youth/young adults trained in evidence-based suicide and substance abuse prevention programming eg. GONA, QPR, ASIST and safeTALK by 200 participants each year. Goal 2: Improve family functioning and communication strategies among parents/caregivers, siblings, and urban AI youth. Objective 2.1: By the end of each year, for the target group of urban AI families, increase cultural skills as a protective factor as measured by at least 60% of adult participants attending 80% of P2W workshop. Objective 2.2: By the end of each year, for the target group of 30 urban AI families, increase by 5% the communication skills and number of drug prevention resistance strategies taught to their children (as taught in P2W) to improve family functioning and communication as measured by pre-survey data collected the beginning of year 1 compared to post-survey data at the end of each of the 5 years. Goal 3: Increase the capacity of local AI-serving organizations to respond to high-risk behaviors among AI youth that may contribute to AI youth suicide and substance use disorder risk. Objective 3.1: By the end of year 1, AI youth and family-serving organizations will meet quarterly to develop standards, policies and procedures for youth at-risk of suicide and substance use disorder; AI youth-serving organizations will meet biannually in each subsequent grant year to review and revise policies and procedures as needed. Objective 3.2: By the end of year 1, AI-serving organizations will develop an action plan that focuses on selective prevention and intervention strategies based on the results of the Community Systems Analysis, Needs Assessment and Readiness Assessment; implementation of the Action Plan will continue through each remaining year of the grant. Objective 3.3: By the end of each year, 30 AI-serving and youth-serving providers will increase 5% their knowledge on historical/generational trauma affecting AIs in Maricopa County as evidenced by retrospective reflection survey. Objective 3.4: Each calendar year, hold the Suicide Prevention Convening annually to increase communication across service-provider agencies through the continuation of the suicide convening of youth, parents and health professionals as measured by satisfaction forms and participation counts.
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).
