NNEDLearn 2014 Participant: Toiyabe Indian Health Project Description: Toiyabe Indian Health Project (TIHP) partnered with Indian Health Services in 1968 to develop Toiyabe Family Services. Family Services proposes to strengthen Indian families and communities by providing professional therapeutic counseling combined with prevention strategies and counseling intervention with a strong emphasis on cultural and traditional activities. Services include drug and […]
Local/ cultural adaptations
Decreasing Family Violence and Recidivism For African American Men
Description: Intervention: recruitment, training, and retention of African American batterers intervention professionals and training for others to increase cultural competence Prevention/Early Intervention: Creation of batterers intervention ‘peer mentors’ who are African American men and others that have successfully completed programs and remain abuse free. Peer Mentors who support men in batterers intervention and help encourage […]
A Randomized Trial of Text2Quit: A Text Messaging Program for Smoking Cessation
Smokers who use a texting service to help them quit are twice as likely to be smoke free after six months, compared with those who just receive smoking-cessation reading material, a new study finds. The overall quit-smoking numbers were low in both groups—11 percent using the texting service, compared with 5 percent in the reading […]
Protective Factors Factsheet: Red Lake Nation Highlights Culture as Prevention
In 2007, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, located on the Red Lake Nation reservation in north-central Minnesota, received funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to convene the Red Lake Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup. Charged with collecting and using local data to understand the substance use and related problems facing the […]
Supportive Families, Healthy Children: Helping Latter-day Saint Families With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Children
The San Francisco State University-based Family Acceptance Project (FAP) has launched a new program to prevent suicide and homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth in Utah. Building on work that the FAP has done in partnership with agencies and religious leaders in Utah, the new program focuses on increasing the likelihood that […]
Shape Up! Barbers Building Better Brothers: A Sexual Health Intervention for Young Black Males in Philadelphia
With men accounting for two-thirds of new HIV infections among blacks in the U.S., the University of Pennsylvania researchers looked for the best way to reach the population about safe sex. They found the barber’s chairs. The Shape Up! Barbers Building Better Brothers program launched in 2009 as a one-on-one intervention with Philadelphia -area barbers […]