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This resource from FEMA provides culturally competent and tribal-focused guidance for tribal governments seeking assistance pursuing disaster response and recovery planning. Designed for tribal government leadership and stakeholders, the guide includes steps for designing disaster plans that meet the unique needs of a tribal community.
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This web page from FEMA provides information regarding disaster planning and recovery for tribal governments in collaboration with federal and state emergency management agencies. It includes guidance for tribal governments interested in seeking assistance after receiving a disaster declaration, background information on FEMA tribal policies, and tools for pursuing disaster planning, mitigation, and funding assistance.
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This web page from the SAMHSA Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center provides resources that American Indian and Alaska Native communities can use to strengthen suicide prevention efforts. It links to a number of fact sheets, toolkits, research articles, and organizations.
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This web page from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provides guidance for American Indian and Alaska Native people seeking behavioral health information and support. It explains the importance of behavioral health and provides tools for users to learn about substance use disorders, explore tribal behavioral health coverage, and prepare for a behavioral health appointment.
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This playlist from the Capacity Building Center for Tribes includes five recorded webinars focused on tribal trauma and resilience. Each webinar focuses on different factors that affect tribal mental and behavioral health, including protective community factors, historic trauma, trauma-informed child welfare, and secondary traumatic stress.
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Through this center, SAMHSA provides training and technical assistance to American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities, tribal SAMHSA grantees, and individuals and organizations who work with AI/AN people. Topics include mental health promotion, suicide prevention, and mental and substance use disorders. The center's website provides information and links to print materials, websites, and webinars.
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This tip sheet defines historical trauma and describes impacts of historical trauma in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) cultures and communities. The tip sheet also provides tips to help responders prepare to support AI/AN communities that have been affected by disasters.
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This blog post from Equal Justice Works explores opportunities for tribal communities to receive disaster planning and response aid from federal and state agencies. It provides background information regarding the federal recognition of tribal sovereignty and explores legislature and policies tribal communities can benefit from to ensure effective disaster preparedness and recovery.
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This tip sheet notes the diversity of Native American cultures in the United States, presents some general commonalities across many Native American cultures and societies, explains historical trauma and how tribes may think about and respond to disasters, and suggests ways to support tribal communities that have experienced disasters. References and related resources are listed.
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Noting the prevalence of suicide and substance misuse in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth, this resource from the Education Development Center highlights the possibility of promoting protective factors in AI/AN communities to support prevention. It includes examples of positive AI/AN youth development programs and explores unique community factors that can protect against suicide and alcohol misuse.
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This document addresses the needs of school-aged youth in Indigenous communities by providing tools for educators, administrators, and mental health and substance use disorder treatment professionals to support resilience building and well-being. It includes a historical review, case scenarios, and best practices based on cultural awareness practices.
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This presentation from the Education Development Center explores strategies for supporting substance misuse prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native populations. The suite of tools provided considers culture-based best practices to ensure traditions, values, and community strengths are measured and supported to promote community health.
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This resource from the Education Development Center explores cultural factors unique to American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations that influence the prevalence of substance misuse and mental health challenges. The guide identifies strategies for assessing and planning programs for promoting community and individual wellness, with special attention to cultural strengths in AI/AN populations.
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This tool from the Education Development Center highlights the importance of culturally informed practices in substance use and mental health programs for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. It features 71 programs and practices in tribal communities, some of which have documented evaluation findings showing a reduction of substance misuse and promotion of well-being in tribal populations.
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This recorded webinar from SAMHSA explores historical trauma and cultural protective factors to highlight the strength of tribal communities and possible strategies for promoting community resilience. It focuses on trauma-informed programs and projects that provide tribal communities with tools for building resiliency and revitalizing cultural protective factors.
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Developed by the SAMHSA Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center, this fact sheet gives individuals and programs who may work with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities a better understanding of mental health in these communities. It discusses the history of trauma in tribal communities, as well as perceptions of mental health and illness among AI/AN communities that differ in some ways from European American perceptions.
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This half-hour webcast helps disaster behavioral health professionals learn about working with American Indian and Alaska Native populations before, during, and after a disaster or other traumatic event. It helps provide an understanding of cultural values shared by Native Americans, and how to work with tribes to understand their perspectives and experiences.
This website outlines the warning signs of problems with substance use and the various protective factors that help people avoid substance use and misuse. The page also links to health services for people affected by substance use.
This web page provides a collection of resources that highlight best practices and guidance for disaster responders serving tribal communities. It includes information regarding tribal declarations and disaster assistance, as well as cultural competence guidance and tools for disaster planners, responders, healthcare workers, and more.
This website provides an overview of suicide in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities and presents information and resources for providers, patients, and people interested in helping prevent suicide and promote behavioral health among AI/AN communities.
Under the Children's Bureau, the Center for Native Child and Family Resilience partners with tribal nations to promote child and family healing from historical and other trauma. The organization provides resources and programs for promoting wellness and trauma-informed child care practices.
This web page from the Capacity Building Center for Tribes provides information regarding trauma and healing for Native American communities. It highlights videos, presentations, case studies, a mobile application, and more resources focused on historical trauma, protective factors, resilience, and trauma-informed practices to best serve and support tribal communities.
Established within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Tribal Assistance Coordination Group (TAC-G) supports federally recognized tribes impacted by disasters and other emergency events. Consisting of tribal, federal, state, local, and private agencies, the TAC-G provides tribal communities with guidance for delivering an effective disaster response and resources for addressing tribal needs.
This section of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center's website features information for people who work with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals and communities. It presents basic information about the issue of suicide among AI/AN people, tools to begin to address the issue, best practices in suicide prevention and health promotion in Native communities, and links to a wide range of resources.