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.

 

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.

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.