In this third 90-minute session of the Culturally Responsive Evidence-Based and Community-Defined Practices for Mental Health Series, we will:
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Holly Echo-Hawk is a former tribal and mainstream behavioral health director with 30 years of experience in the administration and development of licensed and accredited mental health and substance abuse treatment services. Ms. Echo-Hawk is a behavioral health subject matter expert with the national Opioid Response Network, the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Network, and C4 Innovations. Holly Echo-Hawk is an enrolled member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.
Sean A. Bear earned his B.A. from Buena Vista University in 2002, majoring in psychology/human services. He also studied mental health counseling at Drake University for 2 years. He is a member of the Meskwaki Tribe, in Tama, Iowa. He is an Army Veteran of 9 years, honorary discharged after serving with the 82nd Airborne. His passion is to assist people in overcoming their substance use issues as well as other issues, and to return to the spiritual ways of their ancestors. It is his hope that one day, people of all nations will co-exist and live in peace and harmony, not just with each other, but within themselves, as well as to come to the realization of what our ancestor of long ago already knew, “that we are all brothers and sisters under one Creator.”
Heather Yazzie Campbell (Apache/Navajo) is an outdoor leadership program director for the National Indian Youth Leadership Project (NIYLP). She leads experiential and adventure-based education programs at several Indigenous schools across New Mexico. As a Project Venture trainer, she leads workshops for a plethora of Indigenous communities throughout the United States and Canada and teaches them how to construct and implement their own community-based programs.
Ray Daw is a Native American behavioral health consultant and has worked in in the behavioral health field for about 35 years. His career has been largely within and around the Navajo Nation, Native non-profits and most recently in rural Alaska, in both inpatient and outpatient settings. His work in behavioral health has been heavily towards developing Native trauma-appropriate approaches that are healing and effective in tribal behavioral health prevention, Intervention, and treatment services. His work includes extensive experience as a consultant with SAMHSA in program evaluation, culturally-based prevention and intervention services, grant reviewing, and American Indian/Alaskan Native modalities. He is also a trainer in motivational interviewing and historical trauma.
McClellan Hall is of Cherokee descent. Member of the SAMHSA Expert Panel on Prevention (10 yrs) and a member of SAMHSA’s Action Alliance on Suicide Prevention (5 yrs) . Mr. Hall was the Co-lead of the American Indian/Alaska Native Task Force for SAMHSA’s national suicide prevention effort for 5 years. Mac is the recipient of the Kurt Hahn Award, the Spirit of Crazy Horse Award, the Alec Dickson Servant Leadership Award and the Indian Health Service Director’s Behavioral Health Achievement Award. He is the developer of Project Venture, the only Native American-developed program to attain the level of Model Program with SAMHSA and NREPP. Mac is the founder and CEO of the National Indian Youth Leadership Project.