Culturally Sensitive Approaches to Working with Native Americans

1. AJ Ernst, Ph.D.Project DirectorCSAP’s NACEAlec Thundercloud, MDExecutive Director of HealthHo-Chunk Nation Department of Health • Culturally Sensitive Approaches to Working with Native Americans

2. SAMHSA’s Direction • Mission: To reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities. • Roles: • Voice and Leadership • Funding-Service Capacity Development • Information and Communications • Regulation and Standard Setting • Improve Practice • 8 Strategic Initiatives

3. Native American Center for Excellence • Launched in 2007, contract to provide training, technical assistance, and consultation to a variety of substance abuse prevention stakeholders, including: • Strategic Prevention Framework-State Incentive Grants (SPF-SIG) Tribal grantees; • Other Native and non-Native audiences (e.g., Native communities, health and social service providers, Federal and state-level organizations, and community and faith-based providers serving Native communities across the U.S.)

4. NACE Expert Panel • The NACE Expert Panel is composed of 11-14 Native American members with expertise and interest in the prevention of substance abuse within the Native American communities in the U.S. • Expert Panel members provide advice and guidance to SAMHSA and NACE on: • Service to Science Academy nominations, • Developing, planning, communicating, and disseminating information and training and technical assistance on a range of issues related to substance abuse prevention for Native Americans.

5. NACE Training and Technical Assistance Onsite tribal Consultations • Redwood Valley Band of Pomo • Round Valley Covelo Band of Pomo • Hoopa Tribe of Northern California • Grindstone Rancheria • Northern Valley Indian Health Center • Auburn Indian Center • Inter Tribal Council of Nevada – Statewide Native American Coalition • Confederated Tribes of the Klamath Indians • Yakama Nation • Tanana Chiefs Conference • Cook Inlet Tribal Council • Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde • Coquille Tribes of Oregon • Navajo Nation • Havasupai • Great Lakes Intertribal Council • Winnebago • Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw

6. NACE Training and Technical Assistance Onsite tribal Consultations • Native American Health Center – Urban Indian Population 8 Clinics • Sacramento Native American Health Center Urban Indian Center in Sacramento • Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon • Lower Brule Sioux Tribe • Pascua Yaqui • Hualapai • Northern Cheyenne • Crow Nation • Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa • Grand Traverse Band of Odawa and Chippewa Indians • Oneida • Menominee • Acoma • Northern Arapahoe • Tohono O’odham • Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes • Blackfeet Nation • Ho-Chunk Nation

7. Native American Service to Science Academy • Collaboration with Center for Applied Prevent Technologies (CAPTs) • Program driven needs assessment • Resource identification • Program driven agenda development • Pre-academy onsite visits

8. STS Tribal Programs • The Healing Forest Community, White Bison, Colorado Springs, CO • Meth Free Crowalition, Apsaalooke Nation Housing Authority, Crow Agency, MT • Horse Spirit Society, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Manderson, SD • Native American Fatherhood and Families Association, Mesa, AZ • Palatisha Miyanashma, Indian Education Program, Toppenish School District, WA • Red Road Program, Redwood Valley Rancheria, CA • Pilgrimage Journey, Blackfeet Nation, MT • Nk’wusm, Language Immersion, Arlee, MT

9. STS Tribal Programs (Cont.) • Women & Children’s Center for Inner Healing, Fairbanks, AK • Coalition for Healthy and Resilient Youth, Gallup, NM • Red Cliff Wellness Curriculum, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Bayfield, WI • Gathering of Native Americans (GONA), Babb, MT • Protecting You/Protecting Me, Hopi Reservation, AZ • Canoe Journey, Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde, OR • Comprehensive Community Alcoholism Program of Yakama Nation, Yakama, WA

10. STS Tribal Programs (Cont.) • Mino Biimaadziwin Hoop Dance Society, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Peshawbestown, MI • Back to the Boards, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, OR • Two Worlds Immersion Camp, MT • Therapeutic Adventures for Native American Youth, Acoma Pueblo, NM • Wellbriety for Prisons, ID • Wise Women Gathering Place – Discovery Dating Program, Oneida, WI

11. 2011 STS Tribal Programs (Cont.) • Discovering Our Story Project (Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.) • Ichishkiin Culture and Language as Protective Factors • Healthy and Whole (the Suquamish Tribe Wellness Center) • Maehnowesekiyah Wellness Center Prevention Program (The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin) • Wolakota Oun Skunpo (Behaving In a Lakota Way) Hocoka (Medicine Wheel) ATOD Survey Program – A Culturally Appropriate Survey Tool

12. Planning and Coordinating Technical Assistance Sessions to SAMHSA and Other Federal Staff To build the capacity of SAMHSA and/or other Federal Staff to work with Native populations through NACE technical assistance.

13. SAMHSA Project Officer Trainings Full day trainings on topics including: Tribal Structure, Protocols in Indian Country, Diversity of AI/AN Governments, How to Provide Culturally Relevant T/TA, and Understanding State and Tribal Relations

14. Contact Information • CDR Josefine Haynes-Battle, MSN, BSN, RN – GPO • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - Center for Substance Abuse Prevention • 240-276-2563 or Josefine.Haynes-Battle@SAMHSA.hhs.gov • Nelia Nadal – Alternate GPO U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - Center for Substance Abuse Prevention 240-276-2544 or Nelia.Nadal@samhsa.hhs.gov • AJ Ernst, PhD - Project Director CSAP’s Native American Center for Excellence 301-509-5851 or aernst@avarconsulting.com