1. THRIVE Project Red talon We are native January QBM 2015
Project Updates
THRIVE
Project Red talon
We are native
January QBM 2015

2. Current Projects THRIVE We R Native Native VOICES It’s Your Game
Website and Text Messaging
Native VOICES
It’s Your Game
HIV/STD Screening Initiative

3. SAMHSA Youth Suicide Prevention Grant
Zero Suicide Model
National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
SAMHSA
“Zero suicide is a commitment to suicide prevention in health and behavioral health care systems, and a set of tools and strategies.”
Zero Suicide Model:
“Zero suicide is a commitment to suicide prevention in health and behavioral health care systems and also a specific set of tools and strategies. It is both a concept and a practice. . . The Zero Suicide approach aims to improve care and outcomes for individuals at risk of suicide in health care systems. It represents a commitment to patient safety--the most fundamental responsibility of health care--and also to the safety and support of clinical staff who do the demanding work of treating and supporting suicidal patients”.

4. THRIVE: Four Goals
Enhance Tribal systems and services that prevent suicide
Improve coordination, collaboration, and sharing
Promote healthy family and community norms
Improve knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among youth
Goals:
Improve tribal suicide prevention policies and environments through coordination, collaboration, and resource sharing across tribes, departments, and programs.
Enhance organizational systems and practices in IHS, Tribal, and Urban (I/T/U) clinics to provide suicide treatment (screening, assessment, and care management) and prevention services to AI/AN youth years old.
Promote healthy family and community norms, including the identification of suicidal intent among youth, and the use and social acceptability of mental health services.
Improve knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among AI/AN youth (10-24 years old) in the Pacific Northwest using evidence-based suicide prevention interventions.

5. GLS Grant Activities To achieve these goals, the THRIVE project will:
Fund three I/T/U clinics to provide suicide screening and mental health services to 100 or more AI/AN youth years old in their local community. Clinics will utilize evidence-based screening, treatment, and prevention practices endorsed by the Zero Suicide campaign.
Fund three NW tribes to implement an evidence-based intervention (EBI) or promising practice targeting twenty or more AI/AN youth years old in their local community. The available interventions are appropriate for youth across the entire year age range. Each tribal subcontract awardee will select an intervention that meets the needs and readiness level of their community.
Host the annual THRIVE Conference for Native Youth every June.
Host NW Tribal Adolescent Health Alliance meetings throughout the region.
Provide technical assistance to the NW tribes to improve their ability to track, prevent, and treat suicide, including the development of tribal crisis response plans.
Update and expand the current suicide prevention social marketing campaign to reach Native LGBTQ2S youth in years 1 and 2 and expanding the campaign to reach returning veteran populations in years 3 and 4.
Host webinars and trainings on topics that will improve the NW tribes’ delivery of suicide prevention interventions. Trainings may include topics such as suicide risk factors, prevention, and treatment strategies.

6. Suicide Prevention Campaign We Need Your Input... Again!
First thank you so much for your input at the last QBM regarding our suicide prevention campaign…
We’ve received many comments over the past few months that our slogan is not quite there yet -- nothing is resonating with people, nothing is sticking.
Comments included things like – silence is no longer the issue with suicide, now it is increasing the hope in youth that things can get better, that people around them love them, that suicide is not the answer. People want more HOPE.
We are still missing a large voice for properly developing this campaign – THE YOUTH! So, over the next few months, we will be taking steps to get additional input and perspectives on the campaign from youth…

7. We also became aware of an online campaign, called the “The Suicide Sign” -
The sign has traveled around the country, and hundreds of people have been photographed with the sign, and posted it on faceboook and twitter to show support for suicide prevention and to try to help those who are in crisis and give them hope.
Our team feels that this is the type of message of hope that we want to get across in our upcoming campaign.

8. To get more input from the teens and young adults in our region… Our staff will be attending youth conferences and trainings over the next 3 months, to solicit feedback about suicide prevention, and brainstorm phrases that could be placed on our own cardboard box that may act as part of the campaign.
This month's contest on weRnative.org asks American Indian and Alaska Native youth ages 13-21: What would your sign say to end suicide? Youth can submit  their own slogan or hold up their own sign for the chance to win gear and $75 (1st place), $50 (2nd place), or $25 (3rd place) cash prizes. To enter, youth can go visit We R Native on facebook or weRnative.org Deadline for entries: February 10th

9. Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
K. Campbell, 24, Navajo
11/15/2018
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

10. As stakeholders, health professionals, elders… what are your thoughts?
What words would put on OUR sign to show hope and send a positive message to those who are in need.
Are there any quotes from your community that could really catch the eye of a teen in crisis and give them a glimmer of hope? Any thought provoting, empowering words of wisdom?

11. A multi-media health resource for
Native teens & young adults with content
about the topics that matter most to them.

12. Website launched September 28, 2012 Over 160,000 page views!
Over 330 health & wellness pages, reviewed by Native youth and topical experts.
Special features include:
Polls
Blogs
Free Gear & Promo Kits
Video Gallery
text message followers 2,500
160,000 views for webpage
Facebook: 21,000 page likes.
Instagram: 728 followers.
Twitter: 1,209 followers.
Youtube: 141 subscribers, 251 videos, and 17,580 views
We are adding new sections to the website on:
My Environment
Safety – In collaboration with the CDC:

13. We have been meeting with the Social Media Adolescent Health Research Team, based at Seattle Children’s Hospital, about some overlapping areas of interest… T
They have an ongoing study that involves focus groups with WA teens and young adults on their social media use and perceptions of online bullying.
They have invited us to help coordinate 3-6 focus groups that would specifically recruit AI/AN youth to participate
(not recruiting from any specific tribes, but from the region as a whole)
You may be hearing from us this summer, as this activity gets underway.

14. Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
Stephanie Craig Rushing, PhD, MPH
Director – Project Red Talon & THRIVE
Colbie Caughlan, MPH
THRIVE Project Manager
Jessica Leston, MPH
STD/HIV Clinical Services Manager
Mattie Tomeo-Palmanteer, BSW
VOICES Project Coordinator
Amanda Gaston, MAT
It’s Your Game Project Manager
David Stephens, RN
Multimedia Project Specialist
Tommy Ghost Dog
PRT Assistant
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
Indian Leadership for Indian Health
If you’d like to contact the folks who manage We R Native…