Native Men's, Women's, and Family Preservation A New Beginning for Native men, women, youth, and families. A curriculum training for Native families designed to assist Native men, women, youth, and their families to address unresolved conflicts in relationships, improve communication skills, and keep Native families together.
At yearend 2011, there were an estimated 4,814,200 adults under supervision in the community either on probation or parole—the equivalent of about 1 out of every 48 adults. Many people on supervision do not successfully complete their community supervision.1 According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 16 percent of probationers were incarcerated as the result of a new sentence or revocation of their current probation. These failure rates are a key reason prison populations continue to remain high.
Award:
$750,000
Eligibility:
State governments, County governments, City or township governments, and Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
RTI International and American Indian Development Associates have released "Early Implementation Experiences of OJJDP’s Tribal Green Reentry Programs." This report details the experiences of three tribal communities that used OJJDP Green Reentry grant funding to support the use of green technologies and environmentally sustainable activities in reentry programming for youth involved in the tribal justice system. The report profiles each site and examines their cross-site implementation experiences.
This bulletin, the first in OJJDP’s Beyond Detention series, provides an overview of the Northwestern Juvenile Project, the first large-scale, prospective longitudinal study of drug, alcohol, and psychiatric disorders in a diverse sample of juvenile detainees. This bulletin provides an overview of the project and presents information on its goals, sampling and interview methods, areas of measurement, and selected findings.
The goal of this conference is to create a strong foundation for Native American families and tribal governments. This conference provides a variety of workshops for tribal adults and youth as well as workshops for those who serve tribal communities including tribal council members, justice systems personnel, health and human services personnel as well as state and federal agency personnel working with tribal communities. Children 8 years and older may register and attend youth workshops.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2013 Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment in Adult, Juvenile, and Family Drug Courts.
Award:
Up to $325,000
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants include state and local government entities, such as the Tribal Court Administrator, the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Single State Agency for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, the designated State Drug Court Coordinator, or local governmental unit such as county or city agency with direct involvement with the drug court, federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes and tribal organizations, individual adult treatment drug courts, juvenile treatment drug courts, and family dependency/drug courts.
Over the last two decades, there has been much advancement in the treatment of court-involved youth with mental health issues. Assessment and screening tools have improved, access to clinicians and qualified mental health professionals has increased, efforts have been made to limit the effects of the correctional facility environment, and young people have been connected to more community-based re-entry mental health services than ever.
