DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES

• Karuk Paths to Prosperity Project: Successful Online Learning

For the NIJC Distance Learning Courses (listed below), you must enroll and receive a username and password to access the NIJC distance learning website. Click the following links to access the course enrollment form. Once you have subscribed, you will be e-mailed a username and password to access the course.

 

• How to be a Distance Learner : A distance learning classroom and social forum for Native Youth in Action program participants. The classroom curricula consists of culturally appropriate curricula on Native American educational, cultural and social issues. This information may assist NYA program participants in setting goals for their service learning activities. NYA program participants are encouraged to add information about their own communities to this distance learning curricula.

• Preparing a Healthy Path: Planning and Implementing Tribal Adult Healing to Wellness Courts for Participants Who Have FAS/FAE:

  The goal of the Preparing a Healthy Path: Planning and Implementing Tribal Adult Healing to Wellness Course for Participants Who Have FAS/FAE distance learning curriculum is to increase the capacity of tribal communities nationwide to plan, implement and operate tribal adult drug courts to meet the unique needs of participants who have FAS/FAE in order to reduce crime in Indian Country.

  This online course is funded through a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Byrne Competitive Grant Program, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this online course (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). You may also download the curriculum from our FAS Project site.

• Solid Waste Management in Indian Country: The focus of the course is on critical issues like illegal dumping, the development and enforcement of tribal codes, jurisdictional conflicts, reduction and recycling, hazardous household waste, hazardous waste resulting from meth labs, RCRA issues and other updates on solid waste management. This course is designed for tribal elected officials, tribal environmental personnel, tribal court personnel, tribal law enforcement with the capacity to enforce tribal environmental laws, state and federal EPA personnel that work with tribes to address solid waste management issues and others interested in increasing the capacity of tribes to address solid waste management issues.
  

• Highway Work Zone Safety On Tribal Lands: This course addresses the need for tribal leaders (employers) and tribal transportation personnel (employees) in California and Nevada to develop competency in OSHA and state standards and requirements and be better able to recognize hazards and integrate work zone safety considerations in planning, managing, and field operation of roadway/highway construction projects on tribal lands.

  This material was produced under grant SH-17819-08-60-F-6 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

• Tribal Government Civics Course (designed by and for tribal youth): A distance learning classroom and social forum for Native Youth in Action program participants. The classroom curricula consists of culturally appropriate curricula on Native American educational, cultural and social issues. This information may assist NYA program participants in setting goals for their service learning activities. NYA program participants are encouraged to add information about their own communities to this distance learning curricula.