Wednesday, March 12, 2025
3/12/2025
The Two Feathers Native American Family Services of Northwest California, Making Relatives Program, serves American Indian (AI) youth ages 12-24 and their families in Humboldt County. The system-wide goal for Making Relatives is to build an effective, collaborative, and sustainable AI-focused mental health and substance use program to prevent and treat the epidemic of opioid use, and its negative impacts, in the AI community in Humboldt County. Therefore, the Two Feathers Making Relatives Program seeks to engage high risk youth by addressing current mental health gaps in tribal communities through a culturally-based home and community system of care for AI youth and their families. To meet the needs of the elevated rates of co-occurring disorders (e.g., suicide and substance use disorders) in Northwestern communities, our program will include wraparound services, intensive case management, substance abuse treatment, pro-social activities and cultural programming, to reintegrate tribal youth and their families into their communities and increase overall well-being. The Making Relatives' primary goals include: Goal 1: Continue implementation of a culturally-based substance use and intensive case management program utilizing a family focused wraparound model for 10 AI/AN youth and their families; Goal 2: Provide culturally-based, early intervention services to 10 AI/AN youth per year; and, Goal 3: Enhance the Making Relatives Program to establish efficacy and sustainability of the program.
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