Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The Native American Health Center’s Red Vision will serve self-identified American Indian/ Alaska Native youth ages 9-20 residing in and around NAHC’s clinics located in the San Francisco Bay Area at-risk for substance misuse and related behavioral health issues. The implementation of this project will strengthen NAHC’s internal and community capacity to provide substance abuse prevention programming to the target population. Project activities combine strengthening the local AIAN community framework to provide holistic prevention programming as well as the delivery of evidence based practices coupled with NAHC’s innovative holistic community based best practices. Through the proposed Red Vision project, NAHC will advance the substance abuse prevention infrastructure for at-risk American Indian/ Alaska Native youth in the SF Bay Area focusing specifically on the use of alcohol. Two-hundred members will be served annually and 1,000 throughout the lifetime of the 5 year project. Proposed project goals are as follows: Goal 1. Increase community-driven capacity efforts to reduce the risk factors that may contribute to substance misuse and related behavioral health problems by strengthening the prevention framework for at-risk AIAN, ages 9-20, living in the SF Bay Area. Proposed objectives include: 1. Plan and implement Traditional Health training and technical assistance through an annual “Culture is Prevention Summit” for NAHC and urban Native serving organization to disseminate best practices surrounding NAHC’s adapted Cultural Connectedness Scale- California, Gathering of Native Americans, and other relevant topics. 2. Provide Gathering of Native Americans technical assistance training to staff from NAHC and urban Native serving agencies per project year. 3. Provide an epidemiological training workshop for urban Native serving organizations to disseminate applicable tools and best practices. 4. Provide targeted outreach and education to using social media and the PTTC. 5. Advance NAHC’s Community-Based Participatory Research through the development of a youth based Community Advisory Board and the facilitation of Community Advisory Board meetings. Goal 2. Decrease the onset and progression of substance misuse by implementing accessible, targeted, culturally appropriate, evidence and community based, best practices that address high-risk behaviors associated with substance misuse among AIAN, ages 9-20, living in the SF Bay Area. Proposed objectives include: 1.Provide substance abuse and related behavioral health screenings using the CRAFFT and PHQ-9 tools. 2. Administer the NAHC amended CCS-CA scale. 3. Modify and pilot the use of the “Sacred Bundle”. 4. Provide integrated behavioral health treatment and coordinated services. 5. Provide culturally based prevention, early intervention, and postvention traditional health services.
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).
