Friday, May 3, 2024
5/3/2024
Capacity Builders, Inc. (CBI), is a nonprofit organization that has rigorously implemented over 50 programs in the last 16 years in the Four Corners region, with focus on providing services to the culturally specific tribal communities on and off the Navajo Reservation. CBI is located in Farmington, New Mexico, the only urban town in San Juan County, and is considered a border town to the Navajo Nation (NN), America’s largest Indian Reservation. CBI staff are 64% Navajo professionals and represent the communities they serve. The NN is vastly rural and stretches across Arizona, Utah, and Mexico (the size of West Virginia). The implementation of the teenage pregnancy prevention (TPP) program is planned for four unique settings, including two school districts in New Mexico and Arizona, the Shiprock Chapter House’ (local tribal government) Summer Youth Employment Program, and the Office of Diné Youth in Shiprock, and Ft. Defiance; all locations are either in NM, or in AZ and border to NM, and are culturally part of the Four Corners region. Youth in school settings are between 91-99% American Indian (AI) and are 99% AI in additional settings. CBI has built trust with Navajo leaders, elders, and community since 2007 and has partnered for this initiative with community organizations and NN government agencies who are led by CBI? Navajo professionals providing culturally specific services to underserved Navajo AI communities. The initiative is called “Advancing Equity in Navajo Youth through Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program and Services” with outcomes linked to reaching youth, parents/caregivers, and individuals who work with youth. The purpose and intended outcomes of the project are 1) to expand access to high-quality programs to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes and promote positive youth development, and 2) to reduce Teen Birth Rates in historically marginalized minority American Indian youth. Measurable (SMARTIE) obje ctives support the program goal of Increased access for youth, parents/caregivers and individuals who work with youth, inclusive to all LGBTQ+ individuals and those with various abilities, to a robust, culturally responsive and comprehensive curriculum of medically accurate and age-appropriate evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs in 4 unique settings on the Navajo Nation (NN) Reservation in NM and AZ. Activities that support the program success include a planning period, the pilot program implementation in collaboration with multi-sector community network (Community Advisory Board, Tribal Advisory Council) and scaling the program to 4 unique settings on the NN Reservation in San Juan County, NM, and Apache County, AZ. Progress measures are aligned with SMARTIE objectives developed to support identified goal and outcomes. Program staff will engage in data collection utilizing various data collection methods and input data weekly into online data management, all of which will support the data analysis for timely performance measure reporting to the funder (progress and annual reports). Evaluation measures are outlined in the work plan and align with program goal, objectives, and outcomes.
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