THRIVEPROJECT RED TALON

WE ARE NATIVE

OCTOBER QBM 2014

Project Updates

Current Projects

THRIVE

We R Native Website and Text Messaging

Native VOICES

It’s Your Game

HIV/STD Screening Initiative

AWARDED 2014-2019Garrett Lee Smith

Youth Suicide Prevention Grant from SAMHSA

Suicide Prevention Media Campaign

Updating “Community is the Healer that Breaks the Silence”

We Need Your Input!

Mission

To encourage Native adolescents and young adults to realize and embrace their full potential for health and development, and to enhance the capacity of NW Tribes to promote adolescent health, safety, and wellbeing.

Purpose… guide program planning catalyze community outreach efforts foster a coordinated response to the health and

wellbeing of adolescents in the NW Tribes

Suicide Prevention Supplement

Community Readiness Domain Regional Suicide Readiness 2013

Regional Suicide Prevention and Treatment EffortsPreplanning (4)

Community Knowledge about local and regional Suicide Prevention and Treatment Services

Preplanning (4)

LeadershipVague Awareness (3)

Community ClimateVague Awareness (3)

Community Knowledge about SuicidePreplanning (4)

*Resources Related to Suicide Prevention and Treatment (staff, funds, space, etc.)

Preplanning (4)

Improvement 2014 NW Adolescent Health Tribal Action Plan

Time and Funding

Goal 1. Increase the capacity of Tribal health programs to improve adolescent health using culturally-appropriate policies, programs, and services.  Goal 3. Improve intertribal and interagency communication, coordination, and collaboration across sectors to promote adolescent health.

Advertise existing suicide prevention programs

Goal 1. Strategy 2. Identify and disseminate information about effective, culturally-appropriate adolescent health policies, programs, and services using email, listservs, the www.npaihb.org website, webinars, articles, factsheets, and regional trainings and meetings. Include information on effective prevention strategies, screening tools, treatment options, policy templates, funding opportunities, and related resources.  Goal 3. Strategy 4 Maintain a regional listserv to disseminate information about available trainings, funding opportunities, prevention or treatment resources, curricula, interventions, model programs, and tribal successes.

Community Involvement

Goal 1. Increase the capacity of Tribal health programs to improve adolescent health using culturally-appropriate policies, programs, and services.  Goal 2. Empower AI/AN adolescents and young adults in the Pacific Northwest to realize their full potential for health and development. Provide them with the support and resources they need to take an active role in their own health and wellbeing.  Goal 3. Improve intertribal and interagency communication, coordination, and collaboration across sectors to promote adolescent health

Resolution Template

BullyingCyberbullyingInput from past

QBM’sTailor it to your

communityUpcoming template:

Suicide concern Adapted from White

Mountain Apache/Johns Hopkins Collaboration

January QBM

A multi-media health resource for

Native teens & young adults with content

about the topics that matter most to them.

Website launched September 28, 2012

Over 136,000 page views!

Over 330 health & wellness pages, reviewed by Native youth and topical experts.

Special features include: Polls Blogs Free Gear & Promo Kits Video Gallery

2121 SW Broadway, Suite 300 Portland, Oregon 97201

Phone: (503) 228-4185 Fax: (503) 228-8182

Stephanie Craig Rushing, PhD, MPHDirector – Project Red Talon & THRIVEscraig@npaihb.org

Colbie Caughlan, MPHTHRIVE Project Manager ccaughlan@npaihb.org

Jessica Leston, MPHSTD/HIV Clinical Services Managerjleston@npaihb.org

Mattie Tomeo-Palmanteer, BSWVOICES Project Coordinatorwgardner@npaihb.org

Amanda Gaston, MATIt’s Your Game Project Manageragaston@npaihb.org

David Stephens, RNMultimedia Project Specialistdstephens@npaihb.org

Tommy Ghost DogPRT Assistanttghostdog@npaihb.org

Northwest Portland Area Indian Health BoardIndian Leadership for Indian Health