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Financial Literacy Booklet developed for School Mental Health Program

Recording of Native Food is Medicine: Providing Support for AI/AN Youth through the Healing Power of Food Part 2. Join us as we share our cultural connection to food, apply a balanced way of eating, and incorporate Indigenous traditions into our lives with the healing power of food. We welcome Dr. Vanessa Quezada (Kickapoo/Chichimeca). She is a pharmacist and founding member of SanArte Healing and Cultura clinic. Her work is at the intersections of Native traditional healing, food sovereignty and renewable energy that build more life-giving systems. Participants will become knowledgeable in providing emotional/ resilient support for AI/AN youth. Our school communities will develop healthier eating habits for successful outcomes in and out of the classroom. We will reflect upon our cultural connections to food and discuss the importance of sugar stability in the body as related to mental health support. We will learn how to adapt a balanced way of eating and discuss the role of stress, sleep and exercise. Together, we will develop plans for improving access to our traditional foods. Session #2

The National American Indian and Alaska Native TTC developed four flyers for Pride Month. Four flyers: Ilona Verley, Susan Allen, Two Spirit, We'wha

Did you know that 2 in 5 Native LGBTQ+/Two Spirit students experience both homophobic and racial harassment in school? Almost two-thirds of Native LGBTQ+/Two Spirit students reported feeling unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation, and nearly 1 in 5 felt unsafe at school because of their race or ethnicity. Check out our new resource flyer to learn more, including how educators and other school staff can help create a safer learning environment for Native LGBTQ+/Two Spirit students.

Slides from the session Native Medicine: Cultivating Mental Health Resilience and Deep Rooted Vitality for AI/AN Youth.  Join us to activate (y)our full presence, power, and resilience. We will be guided by Gera Marin, a Traditional Healing Arts Practitioner, Sacred Runner (Chaski), urban farmer, and Coach guide us in a 6 class journey where he will share techniques to generate emotional stability amidst the storms. Whether you are an educator, parent, organizer, or tribal leader, this series will support you with physical and mental fitness tools to assist you in sustaining your highest potentials in service of AI/AN youth communities. Through a combination of guided movement, mindfulness practices, and neuro linguistic reconditioning; participants will release self-limiting thought patterns inflicted by the colonial capitalistic dominant society and restore their innate resilience. This series is designed to lovingly support and create a space for those of you that serve in inequitable and challenging conditions, a space for you to regenerate, while reinvigorating your personal practices/routines.  Session #2 

The National American Indian and Alaska Native MHTTC has published its most recent newsletter. The theme for this issue is Deconstructing the DSM-5: Cultural Considerations.  Inside, you will find articles describing the limitations of the DSM-5 as a diagnostic tool when it comes to Indigenous peoples and cultures, as well as how to incorporate Native medicine and culture into treatment and prevention strategies.

Recording of Native Medicine: Cultivating Mental Health Resilience and Deep Rooted Vitality for AI/AN Youth. Join us to activate (y)our full presence, power, and resilience. We will be guided by Gera Marin, a Traditional Healing Arts Practitioner, Sacred Runner (Chaski), urban farmer, and Coach guide us in a series of sessions to journey where he will share techniques to generate emotional stability amidst the storms. Whether you are an educator, parent, organizer, or tribal leader, this series will support you with physical and mental fitness tools to assist you in sustaining your highest potentials in service of AI/AN youth communities. Through a combination of guided movement, mindfulness practices, and neuro linguistic reconditioning; participants will release self-limiting thought patterns inflicted by the colonial capitalistic dominant society and restore their innate resilience. This series is designed to lovingly support and create a space for those of you that serve in inequitable and challenging conditions, a space for you to regenerate, while reinvigorating your personal practices/routines. 

Recording of Native Food is Medicine: Providing Support for AI/AN Youth through the Healing Power of Food. Join us as we share our cultural connection to food, apply a balanced way of eating, and incorporate Indigenous traditions into our lives with the healing power of food. We welcome Dr. Vanessa Quezada (Kickapoo/Chichimeca). She is a pharmacist and founding member of SanArte Healing and Cultura clinic. Her work is at the intersections of Native traditional healing, food sovereignty and renewable energy that build more life-giving systems. Participants will become knowledgeable in providing emotional/ resilient support for AI/AN youth. Our school communities will develop healthier eating habits for successful outcomes in and out of the classroom. We will reflect upon our cultural connections to food and discuss the importance of sugar stability in the body as related to mental health support. We will learn how to adapt a balanced way of eating and discuss the role of stress, sleep and exercise. Together, we will develop plans for improving access to our traditional foods.

Slides from the session Native Food is Medicine: Providing Emotional/ Resilient Support for AI/AN Youth through the Healing Power of Food. Join us as we share our cultural connection to food, apply a balanced way of eating, and incorporate Indigenous traditions into our lives with the healing power of food. We welcome Dr. Vanessa Quezada (Kickapoo/Chichimeca). She is a pharmacist and founding member of SanArte Healing and Cultura clinic. Her work is at the intersections of Native traditional healing, food sovereignty and renewable energy that build more life-giving systems. Participants will become knowledgeable in providing emotional/ resilient support for AI/AN youth. Our school communities will develop healthier eating habits for successful outcomes in and out of the classroom. We will reflect upon our cultural connections to food and discuss the importance of sugar stability in the body as related to mental health support. We will learn how to adapt a balanced way of eating and discuss the role of stress, sleep and exercise. Together, we will develop plans for improving access to our traditional foods.  Session #1

Slides from the session Native Medicine: Cultivating Mental Health Resilience and Deep Rooted Vitality for AI/AN Youth. Join us to activate (y)our full presence, power, and resilience. We will be guided by Gera Marin, a Traditional Healing Arts Practitioner, Sacred Runner (Chaski), urban farmer, and Coach guide us in a series of sessions to journey where he will share techniques to generate emotional stability amidst the storms. Whether you are an educator, parent, organizer, or tribal leader, this series will support you with physical and mental fitness tools to assist you in sustaining your highest potentials in service of AI/AN youth communities. Through a combination of guided movement, mindfulness practices, and neuro linguistic reconditioning; participants will release self-limiting thought patterns inflicted by the colonial capitalistic dominant society and restore their innate resilience. This series is designed to lovingly support and create a space for those of you that serve in inequitable and challenging conditions, a space for you to regenerate, while reinvigorating your personal practices/routines. 

Recording of A Native Youth Round Table. Hurt People Hurt People: Transforming Lateral Violence in AI/AN Communities. The Leadership Academy, National AI/AN Childhood Trauma TSA Center, Category II, and the Tribal College and University Initiative will host a Native Youth Round Table in recognition of Trauma Awareness Month. Our Native Youth panelists will explore a youth perspective on lateral violence, as well as how to heal and build a better Native community for all. We look forward to listening and learning from the Native youth to help guide us in our future work. Please join us in learning from our future leaders!

Slides from the session A Native Youth Round Table. Hurt People Hurt People: Transforming Lateral Violence in AI/AN Communities.  The Leadership Academy, National AI/AN Childhood Trauma TSA Center, Category II, and the Tribal College and University Initiative will host a Native Youth Round Table in recognition of Trauma Awareness Month. Our Native Youth panelists will explore a youth perspective on lateral violence, as well as how to heal and build a better Native community for all. We look forward to listening and learning from the Native youth to help guide us in our future work. Please join us in learning from our future leaders! 

This event took place on May 20th, 2022. We will spend time together reflecting on Native people reconnecting to culture through health and wellness. Through our keynote presenter, Dr. Rebecca Crawford Foster, 2 interactive sessions with traditional health and wellness experts using informed and guided sessions and an Indigenous chef, we will explore the idea of MH and wellness as educators/administrators. Together we will learn traditional ways to impact our youth for self-care and wellbeing. Participants will learn methods to include in a classroom and school setting to help foster positive behavior.  

We will spend time together reflecting on Native people reconnecting to culture through health and wellness. Through our keynote presenter, Rebecca Crawford Foster, 2 interactive sessions with traditional health and wellness experts using informed and guided sessions and an Indigenous chef, we will explore the idea of MH and wellness as educators/administrators. Together we will learn traditional ways to impact our youth for self-care and wellbeing. Participants will learn methods to include in a classroom and school setting to help foster positive behavior.

Check out our new newsletter from the NAIAN MHTTC K-12 School Mental Health Program: CULTIVATE: Rooted in Culture, Destined to Grow!

Recording of Hope and Resilience of American Indian/Alaska Native Youth. May is Mental Health Awareness month. Join us to focus on the mental health and well-being of Native Youth. Today's youth face stressors that can be overwhelming. What are some coping strategies and how do we support youth who are struggling? It's in their DNA to find strength through culture and tradition. Our presenter is psychologist , Dr. John Gonzalez (Ojibwe), who is clinically trained and provides services across Indian country. 

Recording of Words as Seeds. How do words shape and mold us into the people we become? When we think of words as seeds, we become even more aware of the intention behind words that are planted with positivity and those that cause harm. In this talk, you’ll hear testimony on the power of words and their impact on our spirit’s traumas and triumphs. Join us for this session with speaker, Tanaya Winder (Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Duckwater Shoshone), for inspiring words, stories, and activities, as well as to hear Tanaya’s original poetry and song, Come Back to Me. Tanaya Winder is an author, singer/songwriter, poet, and motivational speaker. She comes from an intertribal lineage of Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, and Duckwater Shoshone Nations where she is an enrolled citizen. Tanaya’s performances and talks emphasize “heartwork” – the life path one is meant to follow by using their gifts and passions. She blends storytelling, singing, and spoken word to teach about different expressions of love. Her specialties include youth empowerment and healing trauma through art.

This event took place on May 11, 2022 at 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Please join us for our monthly MHTTC webinar series featuring Avis Garcia, PhD, LAT, LPC, NCC, Northern Arapaho, in collaboration with the South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency in Tacoma, WA. Avis Garcia, PhD, L.P.C. L.A.T. is an enrolled member of the Northern Arapaho Nation and affiliated with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of Wyoming. She earned a doctorate in counselor education and supervision at the University of Wyoming, and is also a Licensed Professional Counselor, and Licensed Addictions Therapist. For 19 years she has been a mental health provider in the treatment of American Indian youth and families. She is also an advocate of education in Indian Country, a resource provider for promoting cultural enhancement of evidence-based practices and practice-based evidence of treatment approaches for American Indian children and their families exposed to trauma. She is knowledgeable about the concerns of implementation and adaptation of evidenced-based practices being introduced into Indian Country. Avis is currently employed as an executive director of a nonprofit substance abuse treatment center in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

This event took place on May 11, 2022 at 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Please join us for our monthly MHTTC webinar series featuring Avis Garcia, PhD, LAT, LPC, NCC, Northern Arapaho, in collaboration with the South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency in Tacoma, WA. Avis Garcia, PhD, L.P.C. L.A.T. is an enrolled member of the Northern Arapaho Nation and affiliated with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of Wyoming. She earned a doctorate in counselor education and supervision at the University of Wyoming, and is also a Licensed Professional Counselor, and Licensed Addictions Therapist. For 19 years she has been a mental health provider in the treatment of American Indian youth and families. She is also an advocate of education in Indian Country, a resource provider for promoting cultural enhancement of evidence-based practices and practice-based evidence of treatment approaches for American Indian children and their families exposed to trauma. She is knowledgeable about the concerns of implementation and adaptation of evidenced-based practices being introduced into Indian Country. Avis is currently employed as an executive director of a nonprofit substance abuse treatment center in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Summer camp is beneficial for youth in many ways, including the development of important social, emotional, and cognitive skills. Moreover, usually children who attend summer camps create memories to last a lifetime! They develop lifelong skills, promotes independence, teaches teamwork and resiliency, provides screen free time, and encourage play time, fosters growth and self-esteem, connect with nature, keeps youth intellectually engaged, and gives them a sense of purpose. Providing a routine is key for them to maintain a healthy life. This session will offer parents and families ideas to keep children active with healthy and safe opportunities during the summer months.

Slides from the session Your Self Care and Psychological First Aid in Your Care for Others During COVID. 

Please join us for our monthly MHTTC webinar series featuring Dr. Avis Garcia, PhD, LAT, LPC, NCC, Northern Arapaho in collaboration with the South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency in Tacoma, WA.

This event took place on Apr 13, 2022 at 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada).

Recording of Pathway to Crisis, Recovery, and Resiliency. The National American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Technology Center, the K-12 Center, and the National American Indian and Alaska Native Child Traumatic Stress Initiative are pleased to announce a collaborative project with Jacqueline S. Gray, PhD, retired research associate professor, to assist in creating a crisis, recovery, and resiliency team to serve your community. After taking the training, participants will posses the knowledge and skills to go out into their Native community as a facilitator.