Through the Strategic Prevention Framework-Partnerships for Success for Communities, Local Governments, Universities, Colleges, and Tribes/Tribal Organizations, the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma Perkins Family Clinic Behavioral Health Department plan to reduce the onset and progression of substance misuse and its related problems by supporting the development and delivery of community-based substance misuse prevention and mental health promotion services, expand and strengthen the capacity of local community prevention providers to implement evidence-based prevention programs, and provide evidence-based services to underserved communities while promoting mental health and well-being.
The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Perkins Family Clinic Behavioral Health, continues to grow and service the rural communities of Lincoln, Logan and Payne Counties in Oklahoma with medical, dental, behavioral health and substance use treatment to Iowa Tribal Members, clients with any Tribal affiliation and non-Native clients. Perkins Family Clinic and Perkins Family Clinic Behavioral Health have worked closely with local school districts to provide prevention in the middle school using Botvin LifeSkills. Through the SPF-PFS funding, grant staff would increase the prevention services to younger grades and broaden the prevention services to other locations within the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma catchment area.
Throughout the life of the grant, key personnel will educate the community on the prevention gaps and implement prevention programs in three public school systems.
