Enacted March 31, 2011 (no funding) Established: Statewide - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

www.honoringnativelife.org UNM Center for Rural and Community Behavioral Health CRCBH http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/CRCBH

Enacted March 31, 2011 (no funding) • Established: • Statewide Clearinghouse intended as a resource for • agencies/communities to access technical assistance, training & support for prevention/intervention/post-vention 3 Culturally-based NA Youth Suicide Prevention Initiatives • intended to support a continuum of prevention, intervention, and post-event assistance to NA individuals, families and tribes, nations and pueblos living with suicide. Total of $450,000 requested ($150K Clearinghouse, • $300K pilot sites) however appropriations were removed from final legislation CRCBH http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/CRCBH

2012 legislation to appropriate $150,000 to the • Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico to fund Clearinghouse and Technical Assistance program and provide culturally appropriate suicide prevention, intervention and post-event assistance statewide to NA individuals and families and tribes, nations and pueblos living with suicide. Approved for FY 13 at $100,000 for Clearinghouse • No appropriations requested for culturally-based • Youth Suicide Prevention Initiatives CRCBH http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/CRCBH

Although SB 417 was enacted without an • appropriation, State and other partners requested that the Clearinghouse be based within the Native American Behavioral Health Programs at the Center for Rural & Community Behavioral Health (CRCBH) CRCBH FY12 activities included the following: • • Created Clearinghouse Staff • Program Manager • AmeriCorp VISTA volunteer Community-based Research Specialist • Consultants • Website developed: www.honoringnativelife.org • Initiated community outreach efforts • CRCBH http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/CRCBH

Enhancements to websites including: • Suicide Prevention, Mental Health, Protective • Factors/Resiliency Resource Directory of Programs and Initiatives (NM , • Tribal and National) Resource Library of Scientific Journal Articles • Resources for Youth • Resources for Community Coalition Building • Community Outreach and Engagement • CRCBH http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/CRCBH

Albuquerque-Area IHS-Behavioral Health Training • Albuquerque Area Inter-Tribal Council on Substance Abuse • Albuquerque-Area IHS MSPI Regional Meeting • Albuquerque Indian Center • All Indian Pueblo Council • Acoma Behavioral Health Clinical leadership • Circle of Life-Eight Northern Pueblos Inc. • Dine Ba’ Hozho Coalition-Shiprock, NM • Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos Inc. • MSPI Grantee-Navajo Nation • Mescalero Apache • NM State Suicide Prevention Strategic Planning Workgroup • Project TRUST Workgroup • Pueblos of Cochiti, Nambe, Sandia, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Zuni • Sandia Pueblo provider Dr. Thomas Carey • Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center • Statewide Epi and Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW) • Thoreau Community Center Board and Community • UNM: AGORA Crisis Center, LGBTQ Group, CNAH, Clinical Trials Network • Southwest Node CRCBH http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/CRCBH

• Stigma and other cultural barriers • Awareness of warning signs • Access to mental health supports/services • Substance abuse issues • Potential unique aspects related to historical trauma, cultural/community identity, or isolation CRCBH http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/CRCBH

Creating statewide advisory board/committee • Supporting statewide youth and family coalition- • building and momentum for suicide prevention Continued coordination of scarce behavioral health • resources using available expertise Provide culturally appropriate regional statewide • training for tribes on suicide prevention Support efforts to coordinate inter-agency data • management to advance prevention efforts Grant-writing technical assistance and support • CRCBH http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/CRCBH

UNM Psychiatry’s Center for Rural and Community Behavioral Health Sheri Lesansee slesansee@salud.unm.edu Doreen Bird, MPH dbird2@salud.unm.edu Utahna Belone ubelone@salud.unm.edu 505-272-6238 CRCBH http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/CRCBH