This document is a program description and clinical manual for the Walking In Beauty On the Red Road: A Holistic Cultural Treatment Model (WBRR) for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) adolescents and their families. This manual is designed as a foundation for substance abuse treatment programs to develop and replicate residential treatment for American Indian and Alaska Native […]
Capacity building
YES! Youth Empowered Solutions
YES! is a nonprofit organization that empowers youth, in partnership with adults, to create community change. The advocacy work is centered on strategies that empower youth to address critical issues facing their communities: teen tobacco use, childhood obesity, substance abuse and access to healthcare. At YES!, high school-aged students are hired as staff members who work […]
Enseñando a Nuestros Niños a Pensar (Raising a Thinking Child)
El Valor, a non-profit community-based organization, was founded in 1973 by a mother with a special needs child. Her dream of a bicultural and bilingual rehabilitation center began in the basement of a community church. El Valor, which means courage, has grown into a multicultural, multipurpose organization that reaches thousands of families locally and throughout the nation. El Valor strives […]
Connecticut Latino Behavioral Health System: Expanding Culturally Relevant Treatment Alternatives
The overarching goal of the Connecticut Latino Behavioral Health System (CT LBHS) is improved behavioral health care through the permanent expansion and enhancement of culturally relevant treatment alternatives for the Latino population of Connecticut. The Hispanic Clinic of the Connecticut Mental Health Center functions as the coordinating anchor for the CT LBHS. The aim is to […]
ConnectFamilias / Little Havana Community Partnership
ConnectFamilias/ Little Havana Community Partnership is built on the premise that children do better when their families are strong, and that families do better when they live in neighborhoods that help them succeed as productive citizens. ConnectFamilias is building a comprehensive, neighborhood based and family focused system of care. ConnectFamilias promotes family and community safety […]
Empowering our Spirits Tribal Suicide Prevention Initiative
NNEDLearn 2012 Training Track: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training The Empowering Our Spirits Program is a comprehensive, integrated, three-tiered prevention approach to decrease Apache youth suicidal behavior (death, attempts, ideation) by promoting protective factors and reducing risk factors on a community, family and individual level. Population of focus Native American youth Implementation The Universal tier increases […]