Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Ohkay Owingeh Youth Substance and Opioid Abuse Prevention Project - With the support of a requested $300,000 annually, the Ohkay Owingeh Tribe, located in Rio Arriba county, NM, intends to use the Strategic Prevention Framework - Partnerships to implement substance abuse and suicide prevention programming, in collaboration with the Ohkay Owingeh Boys & Girls Club (OOBGC) and a myriad of community partners that addresses the needs of Native community youth. We will focus on youth aged 9-17 because they are most in need of additional programming in our community. Services will be provided to 50 Native youth annually and over 1,000 throughout the lifetime of the 5 year project in our community. Program implement will include hiring staff to implement prevention programs proven to reduce substance and opioid use such as SmartMoves/Methsmart for youth aged 9-17 at the Boys & Girls Club and Teen Center; Extending hours of operation to 7 days a week; and providing regular and safe transportation to OOBGC by purchasing one new 15-passenger van. Ohkay Owingeh Tribe’s overarching goal reflected in the proposal is to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse and its related problems while strengthening prevention capacity and infrastructure at the community level. To achieve the project’s goals and objectives Ohkay Owingeh’s community partners commit to the formation of a Substance and Opioid Prevention Task Force to plan and implement collaboration between local government, healthcare providers, schools, community-based organizations, youth and other community. The Tribe will hire a Lead Epidemiologist to identify and select comprehensive, data-driven substance abuse prevention strategies to accomplish goals including: Build capacity to address underage drinking and opioid abuse among persons aged 9 to 17; Collect and report community-level data to determine progress toward addressing SPF-PFS prevention priority(ies); Utilize community coalition building strategies to advance substance abuse prevention efforts across the community; Develop prevention messaging and other prevention strategies and ensure dissemination of these messages and strategies; and Utilize and share effective resources with the Prevention Technology Transfer Centers (PTTCs) to enhance the wide dissemination and adoption of best practices in substance abuse prevention. As part of community outreach and communication about the work of the Substance and Opioid Prevention Task Force and Lead Epidemiologist an Ohkay Owingeh Community Talk Event program will be advertised throughout the county. The event will provide training that educates youth, families, and community members about potentially harmful consequences of substance abuse including underage and problem drinking among individuals 9-17 years old.
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