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July 2024
Summer, Celebrating Culture and Community
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Summer is in full swing and the Healthy Native Youth collective hopes you and your students are taking the time to enjoy this time of the year. There are many cultural activities and events happening that brings families and communities together to lift up culture in celebration.
This month’s issue includes curricula, tools, and resources to celebrate culture and community!
Good Medicine: Native Healing Song in Yupik, by Liz Sunny Boy
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"Even if you don't understand Yupik, your spirit will understand."
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Healthy Native Youth Website Spotlights | |
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Curriculum Spotlight:
Life Skills curriculum for Native teens
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The Youth Spirit Program (YSP) is a culturally grounded life skills curriculum adapted from the Healing of the Canoe (HOC) project to provide youth with the opportunity to develop skills to help them make choices that motivate positive actions, while avoiding the hazards of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
No training is needed to deliver the Youth Spirit curriculum. The curriculum is free, flexible and can be delivered in a variety of settings (e.g. summer program, semester/trimester, youth camp).
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Implementation Toolbox:
Big Picture Adolescent Health Action Planning for Educators
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Text Message Spotlight:
Text NATIVE to 94449 - Celebrate Cultural Pride
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WeRNative.org is a medically accurate, holistic adolescent health resource for Native youth, by Native youth. We R Native includes an interactive website, a text message service (text NATIVE to 94449), a YouTube channel, and social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, and X (formerly Twitter).
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The website features an “Ask Your Relative” Q & A service that has been used by Native youth, young adults, and community members for trusted resource for information on sensitive health topics. Watch a video from a “Guest Relative” who is responding to a question on identity. | |
To order We R Native promotional materials for your school or community, visit Native Health Resources for culturally relevant health resources on a variety of topic areas. | |
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What Do You Want to Learn Next?
Community of Practice Team Wants to Know
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The Healthy Native Youth team is planning the Year 7 line up this summer. It would be helpful to hear from our participants – you.
Scan the QR code or click here for our feedback page to let us know how we are doing and offer suggestions for next year's topics and speakers.
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Community of Practice Recorded Sessions:
Explore for Continued Summer Learning
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The Healthy Native Youth Resource Library has a treasure trove of content with helpful tools and resources ready for use. The Resource Library houses the Community of Practice recorded sessions by month/date/year with an array of health topics from mental health, sexual health education, media literacy, to the implementation toolbox. If you get the summertime blues, visit the Recorded Sessions homepage to make you smile! | |
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THRIVE 2024 Summer Youth Conference:
Culture is Prevention as Good Medicine
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Tribal Health: Reaching out InVolves Everyone (THRIVE) is the suicide prevention project at the NPAIHB. THRIVE works to reduce suicide rates among American Indians and Alaska Natives living in the Pacific Northwest by providing technical assistance, suicide prevention trainings, and resources to the Northwest Tribes.
The annual summer conference for Native youth ages 13-19 from all over the Pacific Northwest and Indian Country concluded the last week of June, with a weeklong experience of mental health skill-building, adult chaperone workshops and celebrating culture as prevention.
The THRIVE conference strives to bring youth together to learn about health promotion and disease prevention with a strong focus on suicide prevention and mental health. Watch the THRIVE 2024 music video done by native youth to celebrate culture and community!
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Stories from the Field
NPAIHB Project Teams and Regional Partners working together for Youth & Caring Adults
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The Project Red Talon Regional Partner Network has been in the field all across Indian Country and Alaska reaching native youth, parents, and caring adults. The Johns Hopkins University Center for Indigenous Health was busy on the Navajo Reservation in Chinle, Arizona as well as the iKnowMine.org team of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in parts of Alaska.
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The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board was active at the Indigiqueer Festival in Seattle and joined the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona at the UNITY Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon which had an attendance of 3,000 youth and adults.
The message of culturally relevant health promotion for American Indian/Alaska Native youth, adults, and communities was carried both strongly and with pride and resilience! The PRT Regional Partners helped each other to demonstrate health promotion, inclusive and holistic wellness with a dose of Native Pride!
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Healthy Native Youth Summer Intern
Meet Todd Rank, Klamath Tribes
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Hello! My name is Todd Rank and I am a citizen of the Klamath Tribes who recently graduated from Portland State University. I am an intern with the Healthy Native Youth project and adolescent health team at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB). I look forward to learning from the members of all the NPAIHB project teams and partners. I hope to learn how to use our resources to help our youth and elders in our native communities.
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Planning for Back-to-School
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