Tuesday, February 4, 2025
2/4/2025
Abstract: Title: Tribal Adolescent Health Project, TAHP, PH-TP1-20-001, Applicant Name: Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Email Grant Development: dennis.noonan@pascuayaqui-nsn.gov The Pascua Yaqui tribe submits this application to the Department of Health and Human Services, and for funding of Tier 1, Changing the Map of Teen Pregnancy funding. The TAHP requests $1,102,515 a year for three years implement an Optimum Health Model for adolescents in the tribal community. This project will enhance and replace our current one-year HHS/TAPP which ends June 30, 2020. TAHP will reach 240 adolescents, 240 caretakers annually with the RCL program and 50 providers and 50 parents / community members with the adolescent optimum health messaging to improve the well-being of tribal youth. TAHP will conduct two tasks; Saturate the tribal community, a high disparities population with an array of services including Evidence based/ fidelity, Respecting the Circle, in order to reduce teen pregnancy and STI’s levels for youth ages 12 to 19 and educate caregivers on issues related to adolescent optimum health issues to reduce risk factors through creation of a deeper understanding of the complex issue of adolescent behaviors which include, teen pregnancy, levels of STI's, substance use, and violence exposure. Task Two; Use youth voice and community support, utilizing a system thinking approach to create an Optimum Health Model for adolescents, The Tribal Adolescent Health Project. TAHP will provide a systematic and collaborative planning effort including youth parents, tribal providers, stakeholders in development of an OHM providing age appropriate, medically accurate and trauma informed resources to address the factors which negatively impacts the optimum health of tribal adolescents. TAHP will develop a network of supportive tribal resources and providers. Outcome: TAHP will focus on; 1) implementation with fidelity of evidence-based interventions to reduce TP and STI’s and educate the community on optimum health for youth 12 to 19. 2) build networks, partnerships and community capacity to collect data adapt policies and procedures in design of an Opti mum Health Model to assure positive services and infrastructure changes in services to adolescents. Measure: Creation of a holistic, comprehensive system of care network of services in support of tribal adolescents those at risk of STI’s and other risk factors and their families through provision of Evidence-Based Models of prevention and support to enhance outcomes and enhance optimum health for youth. TPSP will; a) review and select and modify cultural, effective cultural interventions to reach out to the most at risk adolescents in the community. b) conduct a tribal needs assessment around the issues of adolescent risk factors, c) collaboratively develop a community partnership of adolescents’, tribal members and providers to develop a care network of existing services and new cultural interventions to address gaps in core services for the target populations. Seven staff will help in development and finalizing of a network of care and services. They will coordinate services to provide supportive services over the three years of the grant. TPSP staff will in partnership with the tribal community will solidify the linkages to existing resources and implement new needed resources to improve the positive outcomes for our parents and children and extended family members. The project will bring together partners such as Tribal Health, El Rio Clinic Youth Project, CPS /Foster Care, Behavioral Health, Education, Cultural and Natural supports of adolescents to provide an array of school and community-based services. TPSP will utilize an Advisory Committees trained in Theory of Change, the Adolescent Health; Think, Act, Grow, respecting the Circle to guide development of an Optimum Health Model, cultural sound using a system thinking approach consistent with the Native Worldview in support of tribal youth.
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