NEW PROJECTS
The National Justice Center is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance to administer Turning Points: A Comprehensive Tribal Court Alcohol and Substance Abuse Training Program. Click here for more information.
On-Line Courses
• Technology Tips for Distance Learning Success Technology Tips for Distance Learning Success is a moderated online course provided by the National Indian Justice Center, the pioneer in training and technical assistance for tribal communities nationwide since 1983. This course is especially designed for California Native people who are interested in improving their skills or pursuing interests new and old through distance learning.
Thanks to the California Consumer Protection Foundation, Community Collaborative Fund for providing a grant to support course development.
• Communities Empowering Youth: Activating Native Youth Assets This site provides networking opportunities and informational and distance learning resources for the Activating Native Youth Assets Project. The project and this social forum site serves Native youth, tribes and professional and volunteers from Native youth serving community- and faith-based organizations in Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino Counties. It is created and moderated by the National Indian Justice Center (NIJC).
The Activating Native Youth Assets Project is a three-year capacity building initiative funded by the Administration for Children and Families, DHHS, Compassion Capital Fund. NIJC administers the project in collaboration with the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (CIMCC) and the Sonoma County Indian Health Project (SCIHP). The goal of the project is to build our individual and mutual organizational capacity so that we may serve as resources to help strengthen existing Native and non-Native assets for positive Native youth development in our region.
• 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.
• 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).
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Information about Swine Flu from Sonoma County Indian Health Clinic and the Centers for Disease Control and Information for children on how to prevent the transmission of the Swine Flu.
NIJC PROJECTS
Safe Journeys: A Report on Roadway Safety in California Indian Country - This is a report on safety and roadway conditions in California Indian country. The purpose of this report is to show the lack of adequate data being collected on reservations regarding safety and roadway related accidents and deaths. There is also a lack of adequate funding for educational programs that teach about driver safety and other driver related precautions. Please read the following report, and then complete the survey provided. We appreciate your assistance in helping NIJC to gather data about the safety needs of your tribe. Click here to take the survey
SV/IPV National Program Inventory - The National Indian Justice Center (NIJC) received a cooperative contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Injury Prevention Center to develop a prevention training curriculum to build capacity among tribal leaders, tribal families, health service providers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, judges and non-Natives who work with the target population to engage Native American men and boys in SV/IPV prevention. The curriculum will potentially include, but is not limited to the following elements:
1. A description of the dimensions of SV/IPV in tribal communities and the associated risk and protective factors including descriptions of individual, family and community stressors or factors that increase the risks of SV/IPV.
2. Multi-generational trauma and its impact on violence prevention.
3. An overview of effective and tested prevention strategies for working with men and boys.
4. Developing community based strategies for changing men and boy norms and response including creating effective cross-cultural prevention educational tools and public information campaigns, and strategies for changing by-stander response to SV/IPV.
5. Tribal code and policy development as prevention.
6. Effective strategies for modeling and promoting non-violent individual and family behavior, accountability and positve choices with anger.
7. Developing and sustaining peer-to-peer mentoring programs for boys and men and anti-violence champions.
8. Understanding the special needs of FAS/FAE individuals and strategies for working with them around violence prevention.
The training curriculum will provide participants with methods for networking existing tribal, private organizations, public, state and federal resources and development of new local resources that will enable tribes to enhace the protective factors that will reduce incidences of SV/IPV in their communities. Click here to take survey
If I Only Knew: An Alcohol Intervention Project for Native Youth - Produces a single-session video intervention designed to change individual, peer and family norms favorable to alcohol consumption and to increase Native youth resiliency toward non-consumption. The purpose of the intervention is to increase Native youth awareness of the unintentional injuries that can result from the consumption of alcohol, especially as they relate to driver safety and maternal and child health. Made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service, Health Promotion Disease Prevention Program.
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Distance Learning Project – A planning project to assess the need and feasibility of creating a distance-learning infrastructure through which intergenerational learning methods can be conveyed between the National Indian Justice Center in Santa Rosa, California and four remote endpoints located near concentrated populations of California Natives. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Public Telecommunications Facilities Program. The survey on Distance Education Needs In California Indian Communities is now closed. The winner of the Pendleton blanket is Arvada McCloud of the Pit River Tribe.
**NEW** - Tribal Workzone Safety Distance Learning Curriculum - This distance learning curriculum may be accessed at http://www.nijc.mrooms.org. A username and password is required to access the distance learning curriculum during this project period. You can obtain a username and password by e-mailing barry@nijc.org with a request to participate in the project and training evaluation. This distance learning curriculum addresses the need for tribal leaders (employers) and tribal transportation personnel (employees) to develop competency in OSHA standards and requirements; and to be able to recognize hazards and integrate work zone safety considerations in planning, managing and field operation of roadway/highway construction projects on or near tribal lands. This project is funded by grant SH-17819-08-60-F-6 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Susan Harwood Training Program.
CA/NV Transportation Training and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment Survey - Please share your training session and technical assistance needs with the CA/NV TTAP by responding to the CA/NV TTAP Training and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment Survey. Your responses to the survey found at the link below will help us determine future training topics, locations and dates. Click Here to Complete the CA/NV TTAP Training and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment Survey
Initiative to Promote Development among Native Youth in Lake, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties - A regional, collaborative intervention project focused on building basic and intermediate computer skills, literacy and cultural knowledge for Indian youth aged 12-17 who because of school dropout or poor school performance, are at risk for unemployment, substance abuse and violence. Supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service, The California Wellness Foundation and the California Consumer Protection Foundation.
Living History Outreach Project – Develops a model virtual field trip on California Indian cultures with California Indian youth using video-teleconferencing and video-streaming technology. SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Creates a primary resource on California Indians for schoolteachers and students in California and nationwide while providing California Indian youth with a forum for sharing their stories and affirming their identities and a means for developing job skills and cultural skills. Supported by grants from the Community Technology Fund of California and the SBC Excelerator Program.
Activating Native Youth Assets - The Activating Native Youth Assets Project is a three-year regional capacity building initiative funded by the Compassion Captial Fund, Communities Empowering Youth Program and administered by the National Indian Justice Center. Sustainable programs that respond to the unique needs of Native youth and reflect Native community cultural values can be encouraged locally with the right support. Activating Native Youth Assets works to discover specific risk factors that make Native youth in Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino Counties vulnerable to violence, gang involvement and child abuse and neglect, while also identifying protective factors that contribute to youth resiliency. Our goal is to provide capacity building T/TA that can activate and enhance existing community programs and protective factors to counteract individual, family, peer and community level risks. The National Indian Justice Center works collaboratively with the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center and Sonoma County Indian Health Project, two other regional Native youth serving organizations to implement the project. Over the next three years, we will begin working on building our individual and collective organizational capacity in the areas of leadership development, organizational development, program development and community engagement in order to expand our ability to better serve Native youth in the project target area.
COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESMENT - To discover risks and protective factors and map community assets for Native youth, the project conducted a Community Needs Assessment. Respondents to the Needs Assessment were entered into a raffle drawing for a Pendleton Blanket.
***The Winner of the raffle is Carmelita Trippo of Santa Rosa***
The Needs Assessment is an ongoing process. Click the link below if you would like to respond to the survey. We will be posting a Community Needs Assessment Report shortly.
Songs of Our People Project - A statewide oral history documentation project that helps sustain intergenerational learning and oral literacy for California Indian youth and families, provides workshops on multi-media production and creates innovative instructional resources on California Indian histories, cultures and contemporary issues for tribal and institutional educators and other groups. Funded through a major grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Native Americans, Social and Economic Development Program and the AT&T Foundation.