It's 2022! Let's Do This!
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It’s 2022, and we’re ringing in the New Year with positive energy mojo! This month’s issue includes new tools, curricula updates, and learning opportunities to get your program moving! Healthy Native Youth’s motto this month echoes one educator and his youth as they sing in their music video, Native STAND UP!
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HNY e-News Readership Survey |
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Healthy Native Youth Website Update |
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The Healthy Native Youth website has a new look for the New Year! Our most exciting addition to the website is the Implementation Toolbox – an online resource with tips, examples, and ready-to-use templates to help Native communities adopt, implement, and maintain a culturally-relevant sexual health education program.
The Toolbox offers guidance in five phases (Gather, Choose, Prepare, Implement and Grow) that can be flexibly tailored to local needs. Check it out and start planning for 2022!
Click HERE to View the Toolbox
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We Are Seeking Volunteers to Give us Feedback on the Toolbox |
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HNY needs your help! We are seeking volunteers to test and provide feedback on the Implementation Toolbox! We want to learn about your journey using this resource.
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In Case You Missed It:
Set the Stage for Program Success Community of Practice
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The HNY team came together to share resources and ideas on the many ways we can GATHER and process community and youth input on health priorities and interests, including a template to carry out a Community Needs and Resource Assessment.
Click to HERE Watch the recorded session and join us January 12th!
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Pickers Can Be Choosers:
Choosing a Program (Jan. 12th) Register in Advance!
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You have gathered youth and community feedback to identify health priorities, resources and needs. Now you are ready to CHOOSE a program that meets your needs! The HNY crew will share tools to help you select a program, get approval, and actively involve youth in the selection process.
Hear from several program developers: We R Native, Native STAND 2.0, Native WYSE Choices and Native It’s Your Game 2.0.
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ICYMI. Tackle Trauma with Care Recorded Session
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A HUGE shout out to the National Native Children’s Trauma Center and the Native Wellness Institute’s Indigenous 20Somethings Project for an awesome Community of Practice in November! In Case You Missed It - Click HERE.
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Healthy Native Youth Curricula Update |
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Native STAND 2.0 is New and Improved |
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Native Students Together Against Negative Decisions 2.0 (Native STAND 2.0) is a comprehensive sexual health curriculum for Native high school students that is free, flexible and easily adaptable for local settings.
The program includes 18 lessons that support healthy decision-making through interactive discussions and activities that promote self-esteem, goals and values, diversity, team building, negotiation and refusal skills, and effective communication skills. Each 50-minute lesson contains teachings from tribal communities that ground learning in cultural teachings.
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Native STAND 2.0 Orientation Webinar – Jan. 26th
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Join an orientation webinar to see the new and improved lessons, resources, and activities!
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In Case You Missed It:
Talking is Power – Tools for Caring Adults
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In December, WRN and HNY teamed up to present the Talking is Power text messaging service for Parents & Caring Adults. Watch the recorded session to learn more about its development and creative ideas to spark sensitive conversation with teens and young adults.
Watch the recorded session below!
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Our people: We are responsible for ourselves and others.
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A Call to Action on HIV Prevention |
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National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) Indian Country Coordinator Chistopher Paisano shared a key message during the closing plenary of the USCHA conference, “If we hope to end the HIV epidemic by 2030, it’s going to take all of us.” This reinforced a message that was repeated throughout the conference: community-based approaches are effective, and a national focus on racial equity is crucial to ending the HIV pandemic.
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Community Engagement in the Field:
Ninilchik, Alaska
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Annette Hubbard, harm reduction advocate and Ninilchik Traditional Council Medication-Assisted Treatment Intake Case Manager and Behavioral Health Aide, recently spoke at the United States Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA).
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I Strengthen My Nation Challenge Update |
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Last year, NIDA and We R Native partnered on a youth art and community service project challenge – I Strengthen My Nation, I Live Drug Free – and the array of submissions are powerful! The images and stories draw upon the inherent strength and resilience of Indigenous people and culture that protect against substance misuse.
HNY salutes those youth and young adults who submitted art and video applications!
Click to HERE to view gallery.
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