Tuesday, January 14, 2025
1/14/2025
Comanche Nation’s Tribal Unity Youth Council will serve Native youth and families in four counties in Southwest Oklahoma: Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, and Kiowa. The total estimated number of Natives is 17,414 of which 6,008 are children under 18. We will strengthen prevention infrastructure in Comanche Nation through providing Culture as Prevention activities to youth and families and creating a Juvenile Drug Court development task force. The goals and objectives are the following: (Goal 1) Increase coordination between tribal & non-tribal systems to create a coordinated behavioral health infrastructure for native youth and their families; (Objective 1.1) provide training to school faculty on trauma-informed practices and native youth to increase collaboration between the tribe and local schools in all 80% of target schools; (Objective 1.2) collaborate with no less than 50% of target schools to implement trauma-informed policies as evidenced by written letters of agreement and documented policy change; (Goal 2) Increase access to and participation in traditional practices, language, culture, and native pro-social activities; (Objective 2.1) increase capacity for IAMNDN growth (adults and students grade 6-12); (Objective 2.2) increase community connectedness as measured by increasing percentage of students reporting opportunities for pro-social activities from 46.6% to 47.5%; (Goal 3) Enhance capacity of our tribal judicial system to provide support and early diversion programs for youth at risk and for families at risk (supporting youth with parents involved in judicial system); (Objective 3.1) convene a juvenile drug court task force for Comanche Tribal Court system as measures by meeting attendance, leadership participation, and strategic planning; (Objective 3.2) create a juvenile drug court development plan as evidenced by meeting minutes, participation review by sector, and completed written plan; (Objective 3.3) increase capacity of judicial system to implement trauma-informed practices in juvenile court as evidence by Tribal Court employees & leaderships attendance at trainings and post surveys to measure knowledge increases; (Goal 4) Decrease youth substance use, misuse, and abuse among Comanche Nation youth; (Objective 4.1) Decrease social access, reducing the percentage of youth who report getting alcohol from someone age 21 or older from 43.9% to 43.0%; (Objective 4.2) increase the percentage of students who perceive risk of harm from alcohol use from 74.7% to 76.2%; (Objective 4.3) decrease the percentage of AI students who report getting prescription drugs from friends from 50.6% to 49.6%; (Objective 4.4) increase peer disapproval use from 75% to 76.5% by Comanche Nation AI secondary students. We will serve 4,000 annually and 20,000 throughout the life of the project.
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