Wednesday, March 12, 2025
3/12/2025
Project Name: Niizh Animikiig Population to be Served: Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians at-risk tribal youth, and adults over 26 years of age. Strategies/Interventions: Hoop dancing (youth), prevention activities (adults) and other cultural activities utilizing White Bison Families of Tradition curriculum Project Summary: GTB citizens have encountered issues of historic trauma, poverty, domestic violence, sexual assault, and substance abuse for decades. On an annual basis over 150 individual Tribal members seek substance abuse counseling and/or treatment through the Tribe’s Behavioral Health Department. The Project will challenge and empower each community to develop their own youth and adult substance abuse prevention coalitions. The Project Director will help foster the relationships of the community to get things started and encourage participation of each community. Addiction is a disease that affects not only the individual but the whole family which supports our Project focus of utilizing the culturally based White Bison Curriculum to provide education, prevention and intervention opportunities for healing to our Families as a unit. GTB proposes to increase its capacity to implement, sustain and improve effective substance abuse prevention services in the Tribe. The Niizh Animikiig project will be the impetus for mobilizing coalitions in the Tribe that will plan and implement prevention initiatives targeted at their greatest needs, and will engage Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council’s Epidemiology Center, who will provide data collection, performance measures, and evaluation services. The following six goals will be completed through the Niizh Animikiig project: 1 – Prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse and underage drinking and drug misuse (8-20) and adults (21+) in the GTB community. 2 – Reduce substance misuse-related problems in the GTB community. 3 – Strengthen prevention capacity/infrastructure at the community level. 4 – Leverage other funding streams and resources for prevention. 5 – Implement a comprehensive prevention approach, including a mix of evidence-based programs, policies, and/or practices that best address the selected prevention priority. 6 – Identify technical assistance (TA) and training needs and the development of responsive activities.
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