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Slides form the session Finding and Working with Self Through Cultural Ways of Crafting. This event took place on October 20th, 2021.  In cultural ways everyone has a craft. Through crafting the individual, family, or group can stay grounded in a good way. They can find themselves and further develop their relationship with their inner-selves and become more at peace with their place in the the world around them. The tools they acquire and the lessons they learn about themselves become a stronghold for well being, growth, and understanding.

This ATTC Addressing Addiction in our Native American Communities: Volume 7 Issue 2 was published in the Summer of 2021. 

Recording of Peer Recovery Panel. In honor of Recovery Month, we are hosting a panel discussion on peer recovery! 

Please join us for our event: Stimulant Use Disorders: A Continuum of Care on October 7th, 2021. Featuring our guest speaker, Ed Parsells!  Start 9:30am CT

Please join us for our event: Stimulant Use Disorders: A Continuum of Care on October 7th, 2021. Featuring our guest speaker, Ed Parsells!  Start 9:30am CT

Slides from the session ESAS: Clinical Evaluation - Screening. This event took place on October 6th, 2021. This presentation focuses on the screening process for Substance Use Disorders. The first step in this process is determine whether the patient recognizes the need for change in his/her behavior. The next step is to interview the patient to determine whether he/she describes behaviors predictive of substance use disorders and then to ask specific questions that will further discern the extent of the problem or eliminate the need for further additional follow-up. 

Recording of ESAS: Clinical Evaluation - Screening. This event took place on October 6th, 2021. This presentation focuses on the screening process for Substance Use Disorders. The first step in this process is determine whether the patient recognizes the need for change in his/her behavior. The next step is to interview the patient to determine whether he/she describes behaviors predictive of substance use disorders and then to ask specific questions that will further discern the extent of the problem or eliminate the need for further additional follow-up.

  The National American Indian and Alaska Native Addiction Technology Transfer Center would like to share with you Volume 7, Issue 3 of our newsletter, Addressing Addiction in our Native American Communities for Fall 2021: Recovering from Substance Use Disorders During COVID-19. Please take a few moments to explore this issue. It is available at the link below to download.

Slides form the session ESAS: Adolescent Brain Maturation and Health: Intersections on the Developmental Highway. This event took place on September 22, 2021. Featuring Ken Winters, PhD! This session will cover what is actually happening in the brain of an adolescent as they mature, and how drug use can particularly affect the teen brain. The maturation of the adolescent brain likely contributes to behaviors that are characteristic of this developmental period. This maturation also informs our understanding of risk for substance use disorders and other behavioral disorders. Service providers can leverage teen brain science when working with adolescents and parents.

Recording of ESAS: Adolescent Brain Maturation and Health: Intersections on the Developmental Highway. This event took place on September 22, 2021. Featuring Ken Winters, PhD! This session will cover what is actually happening in the brain of an adolescent as they mature, and how drug use can particularly affect the teen brain. The maturation of the adolescent brain likely contributes to behaviors that are characteristic of this developmental period. This maturation also informs our understanding of risk for substance use disorders and other behavioral disorders. Service providers can leverage teen brain science when working with adolescents and parents.

   September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. If you or a loved one needs support, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available to you: 1-800-273-8255 We can all help prevent suicide. The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals. For resources, please visit: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/promote-national-suicide-prevention-month/ https://www.bethe1to.com/?_ga=2.202412946.2037725760.1632240281-2095456634.1632240281 https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/lgbtq/   Español  Septiembre es el Mes Nacional de Prevención del Suicidio. Si usted o un ser querido necesita apoyo, la Línea Nacional de Prevención del Suicidio está disponible para usted: 1888-628-9454 Todos podemos ayudar a prevenir el suicidio. El Lifeline proporciona 24/7, soporte gratuito y confidencial para personas en peligro, también proporciona recursos de prevención y recursos de crisis para usted o sus seres queridos, y las mejores prácticas para profesionales. Para obtener más información, visite: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/en-espanol/ https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/promote-national-suicide-prevention-month/  https://www.bethe1to.com/bethe1to-pasos-evidencia/?_ga=2.176832166.2037725760.1632240281-2095456634.1632240281   Português Setembro é o Mês Nacional de Conscientização sobre a Prevenção do Suicídio. Se você ou alguém querido (a) precisa de apoio, a Linha Nacional para Prevenção do Suicídio está disponível para você: 1800-273-8255 Todos nós podemos ajudar a prevenir o suicídio. A lifeline oferece ajuda, 24 horas por dia, 7 dias da semana, suporte gratuito e confidencial para pessoas em risco, também oferece recursos de prevenção e recursos de crise para você ou seus seres queridos (as) e as melhores práticas para profissionais. Para mais informações visite: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/promote-national-suicide-prevention-month/  https://www.bethe1to.com/?_ga=2.202412946.2037725760.1632240281-2095456634.1632240281 https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/lgbtq/  

Slides from the session TOR Regional Meeting: Southwest IHS Regions. These included Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, and Navajo areasThese meetings are intended to allow grantees to share ideas, discuss difficulties, and learn from experts on managing your grant. We will also have open discussions on topics, issues, and questions that you are most interested in related to your TOR grant/program, so please let us know what you would like to discuss! 

Recording of Walking the Long Road: AI/AN Recovery Stories of Experience, Strength, and Hope.  This event took place on September 15, 2021. In honor of National Recovery Month, this 2-hour Behavioral Health webinar event offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from Native individuals in long-term recovery. A panel and moderator will address questions related to each person's pathway to sobriety and ongoing recovery from a personal, cultural, and spiritual perspective. Please plan to attend this special broadcast as our panelists share their experience, strength, and hope with one another.

Stimulant Use Disorders: A Continuum of Care (part 1) Please join us for our event: Stimulant Use Disorders: A Continuum of Care on September 2nd Featuring our guest speaker, Ed Parsells! Start 9:30am CT

Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment: The Application of the SBIRT in a Tribal Healthcare Setting. The new date for SBIRT training is September 2, 2021 from 1:00-4:30 pm CST! Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment. SBIRT is an approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment to people with substance use disorders and those at risk of developing these disorders. This informative 3-hour training has been adapted to meet the needs of Native American Communities. This event is free to tribal members and offers CEUS for the contact hours attended. We are a NAADAC certified education provider. Learning Objectives: -Participants will be able to review/ discuss how motivation to change works within individuals and apply Motivational Interviewing approaches throughout the 4-day training experience -Participants will review/ discuss/ and apply SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) throughout the 3-hour training event -Identify the role trauma experiences and history plays with mobilizing individuals, families and communities to help people change what can be tough behavioral changes -Describe the key components of the current version of MI -Demonstrate and practice with support during the training -Learn from the knowledge and experience of others -Post training the opportunity to receive and work with an established MI supervisor to implement the training learnings to real life work with clients. Questions? Please email [email protected]

In September we celebrate National Recovery Month! The 2021 National Recovery Month theme is: Recovery is For Everyone: Every Person, Every Family, Every Community. To find out what is going on in your local area, to access resources and/or to get involved we recommend you visit: rm.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org #NLBHA #NHLATTC #NHLPTTC #RECOVERYMONTH2021 Español  ¡En septiembre celebramos El Mes Nacional de Recuperación! El tema del Mes Nacional de Recuperación 2021 es: La recuperación es para todos: cada persona, cada familia, cada comunidad. Para saber qué está pasando en su área local, para acceder a recursos y/o para involucrarse le recomendamos visitar: rm.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org #NLBHA #NHLATTC #NHLPTTC #RECOVERYMONTH2021   Português Em setembro celebramos o Mês da Recuperação Nacional! O tema do Mês Nacional da Recuperação de 2021 é: A recuperação é para todos: cada pessoa, cada família, cada comunidade Para descobrir o que está acontecendo em sua área local, para acessar recursos ou para se envolver de alguma maneira, recomendamos que você visite o site: rm.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org #NLBHA #NHLATTC #NHLPTTC #RECOVERYMONTH2021  

National Recovery Month (Recovery Month) increases awareness and understanding of mental health and substance use disorders and encourages individuals in need of treatment and recovery services to seek help. Recovery Month celebrates individuals living lives in recovery and recognizes the dedicated workers who provide the prevention, treatment, and recovery support services that help make recovery possible. Recovery is for everyone because it benefits everyone. In recovery, we build new connections to ourselves, our families, and our communities. The 2021 National Recovery Month theme, “Recovery is for Everyone: Every Person, Every Family, Every Community” reminds people in recovery and those who support them, that recovery belongs to all of us. We are all called to end gatekeeping and welcome everyone to recovery by lowering barriers to recovery support, creating inclusive spaces and programs, and broadening our understanding of what recovery means for people with different experiences. Resources: 2021 Recovery Month Toolkit - English 2021 Recovery Month Toolkit - Spanish/Español  

Recording of TOR Webinar: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. This event took place on August 25th, 2021.  Featuring our special guest speaker: Carolyn DeFord (Puyallup, Nisqually, Cowlitz) Carolyn DeFord is Puyallup, Nisqually, Cowlitz and mixed Pasted (settler) descendancy. She currently works for the Puyallup Tribe’s Community Domestic Violence Advocacy Program, where she supports program goals to address violence and abuse impacting the community. These important issues partnered with personal experience and being the daughter of a long term missing person have inspired her to raise awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous people, prevention, and the healing power of culture. In 2016, in an effort to bridge gaps in media, services, and awareness, Carolyn created Missing and Murdered Native Americans; a grassroots volunteer organization focused on supporting families, awareness, prevention and advocacy.

  The Tribal Opioid Response Technical Assistance Center would like to share with you this new publication, Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Innovations in Native American Communities, a compilation of stories from TOR grantees across the country sharing successes they have seen in their programs by incorporating their culture and traditions.   This is the first volume in a planned series celebrating the work that TOR grantees are doing in their communities, so please contact our TOR staff if your TOR program has a successful project you would like us to share: [email protected]

Group 1: August 2-5 1- 4:30pm CT The National American Indian & Alaska Native ATTC is offering a training opportunity for those who care for Native American and Alaskan Native Peoples! Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based counseling practice sensitive to and effective with our Native Community. We are offering a training program that teaches about the most current edition of MI that also offers after training supervision to those who attend. This important 4-day event is free to tribal members and offers CEUS for the contact hours attended. We are a NAADAC certified education provider. Questions? Please email [email protected]!

In Part 2 of this behavioral health webinar, the presenters will offer suggestions on how to approach Indigenous peoples in a clinical way that also speaks to a worldview from an Ingenious perspective, and will conclude by providing some resources that may assist clinicians and community members in addressing the issues aforementioned.   Questions? Please email [email protected] Keaw’e K Bone has worked with the community of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians, in the capacity of a childcare worker, cultural coordinator, targeted case manager, storyteller, Keaw’e is an (EBCI) member also has lineage with Lakota nation and Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) ancestry. Keaw’e is also the youngest storyteller in his tribe within six generations and holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology with an interdisciplinary minor in Cherokee studies. Theresa Elizabeth Sault-Brill has a vast background due to traditional elder’s coming to her for various needs, concerns and issues over the span of her adult life. She did not seek to make careers in the criminal justice field or psychology fields. As a spiritual and cultural woman, she has learned that our solutions are in our culture. She only sought to gain the education, training, and experiences to obtain understandings in all aspects that impact her people and other Indigenous peoples. Through this she has been able to truly help in education, empowerment, and healings. Through her life experiences, educations, and trainings Theresa believes that we can show how our ways of learning, counseling, etc. is the most effective, and as Traditional Sovereign People we can prove and justify our cultural ways to implement our real and needed solutions.  

In Part 2 of this behavioral health webinar, the presenters will offer suggestions on how to approach Indigenous peoples in a clinical way that also speaks to a worldview from an Ingenious perspective, and will conclude by providing some resources that may assist clinicians and community members in addressing the issues aforementioned. Questions? Please email [email protected] Keaw’e K Bone has worked with the community of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians, in the capacity of a childcare worker, cultural coordinator, targeted case manager, storyteller, Keaw’e is an (EBCI) member also has lineage with Lakota nation and Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) ancestry. Keaw’e is also the youngest storyteller in his tribe within six generations and holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology with an interdisciplinary minor in Cherokee studies. Theresa Elizabeth Sault-Brill has a vast background due to traditional elder’s coming to her for various needs, concerns and issues over the span of her adult life. She did not seek to make careers in the criminal justice field or psychology fields. As a spiritual and cultural woman, she has learned that our solutions are in our culture. She only sought to gain the education, training, and experiences to obtain understandings in all aspects that impact her people and other Indigenous peoples. Through this she has been able to truly help in education, empowerment, and healings. Through her life experiences, educations, and trainings Theresa believes that we can show how our ways of learning, counseling, etc. is the most effective, and as Traditional Sovereign People we can prove and justify our cultural ways to implement our real and needed solutions.

This month our National Hispanic and Latino ATTC and PTTC would like to support August’s Overdose Awareness Month and International Overdose Awareness Day, which takes place annually on August 31st.   Resources: https://salud-america.org/drug-overdose-deaths-during-covid-19-a-historical-spike-among-latinos/    www.overdoseday.com #NLBHA #NHLATTC #NHLPTTC Español  Nuestros Centros Nacionales Hispano y Latino ATTC y PTTC desean apoyar el Mes de Concientización de Sobredosis de el mes de agosto y el Día Internacional de Concientización de Sobredosis, que tiene lugar anualmente el 31 de agosto.   Recursos: https://salud-america.org/drug-overdose-deaths-during-covid-19-a-historical-spike-among-latinos/    www.overdoseday.com #NLBHA #NHLATTC #NHLPTTC Português Neste mês, nós gostaríamos de apoiar o Mês de Conscientização sobre a Overdose e o Dia Internacional de Conscientização sobre a Overdose, que ocorre anualmente em 31 de agosto.   Recursos: https://salud-america.org/drug-overdose-deaths-during-covid-19-a-historical-spike-among-latinos/    www.overdoseday.com #NLBHA #NHLATTC #NHLPTTC

Slides from the session Essential Substance Abuse Skills Webinar: Group Counseling. This event took place on August 4th, 2021. It featured our special guest speaker: Avis Garcia, PhD, LAT, LPC, NCC, Northern Arapaho. Our topic this month will be: Group Counseling