Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Na'inbi Wowatsi - Na'inbi Wowatsi - Our Way of Life is a Prevention Project aimed at addressing Opioid and Substance Use/Abuse and Accidental Overdose Deaths. Primary Prevention utilizing Culture and Traditional practices as a way of seeking wellness in our peoples walk in life. The Ohkay Owingeh Na’inbi Wowattsi Project aligns within the continuum of care as prevention services and in collaboration with Treatment Providers, Traditional & Cultural Leadership, First Responders and individuals in recovery, will seek to establish and enhance alternative and direct approaches of wellness for those seeking opioid treatment services or other substance use prevention and treatment. The project will make efforts to build on and enhance resiliency factors for the Ohkay Owingeh Community Youth by developing leadership skills, enhancing Culture as resiliency and delivering early prevention education in School settings, in the youth after school & summer programs and or community gatherings. The Na’inbi Wowatsi Project will utilize Traditional & Cultural Elders as a primary resource using language, culture, customs and beliefs as lived based practices to build upon the principles of Gathering of Native American Teachings: 1) Belonging, 2) Interdependence, 3) Mastery and 4) Generosity/Respect. The project will target approximately 300 overall community members in its first year and hopes to reach 2000 community members by end of project. We will measure our success through data collection from sign in sheets, referrals to our behavioral health programs, pre/post surveys and other qualitative and quantitative data. Successful outcomes include increased communication between community members, increased understanding of opioid addiction and use disorder (OUD), ulterior pain management, empowered community members, increased cultural knowledge, practices and participation, all in efforts of combating and overcoming stigma and social ills, to prevent substance abuse and to bridge the connection of destruction to healing and wellness. The Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Council also believes when individuals are made to feel that they matter, and have a unique contribution to make and when they are helped to understand their feelings they are less likely to endanger their own health or that of others by engaging in behaviors that put them at risk.
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