Resource Roundtable – Part 2
June 29, 2011
Notes
Agenda:
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Welcome & Introductions
Center for Native American Youth Introduction & Background
Federal Agency Presentations
o White House Office of Public Engagement
o White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities
o Department of Justice - Office of Justice Programs, Office on Violence Against
Women, Community Oriented Policing Services
o Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - Office of Indian
Alcohol and Substance Abuse
o Department of Labor - Youth Build Program
o USDA 1994 Programs-Tribal College
Guest Native Youth Program Presentation - National Indian Youth Leadership Project
Attendees:
Name:
Erin Bailey
Center for Native American Youth
Title:
Office
Director
Center for Native
American Youth
Josie Raphaelito
Program
Coordinator
Center for Native
American Youth
Allison Binney
Board of Advisor
Member
Akin Gump Strauss
Hauer & Feld LLP,
Partner
Raquel Bahe
Communications
Student Intern
Center for Native
American Youth
White House & Federal Agency Participants
Name:
Title:
Office:
Agency:
Mary Kate
Tribal Affairs
Office of Juvenile
Department of Justice
Markano
Assistant/Program Justice and Delinquency
Support Specialist Prevention
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Laura Ansera
Tribal Youth
Coordinator
Office of Juvenile
Department of Justice
Justice and Delinquency
Prevention
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Kathleen Gless
Victim Justice
Program
Specialist
Bethany Case
Visiting Fellow
Karol Mason
Michelle Carnes
Deputy Associate
Attorney General
Public Health
Analyst - Tribal +
LGBTQ
Office of Victims of
Crime
Department of Justice
Office of Victims of
Crime
Department of Justice
Department of Justice
Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services
Administration
Department of Health &
Human Services
Sheila Cooper
Senior Advisor
for Tribal Affairs
Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services
Administration
Department of Health &
Human Services
Dennis Romero
Acting Director
Cheryl Peterson
Senior Public
Health Analyst
Office of Indian
Alcohol and Substance
Abuse
Indian Health Service
Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services
Administration
Department of Health &
Human Services
Brandi Sweet
Program Analyst
Bureau of Indian
Education: Office of
Policy, Evaluation and
Post Secondary
Education
Department of Interior
Bill Mendoza
Deputy Director
for Tribal Affairs
White House Initiative
on Tribal Colleges and
Universities
Department of Education
White House Office of
Public Engagement
White House
Youth Build
Department of Labor
Youth Build
Office of Advocacy and
Outreach: Higher
Education Initiatives
1994 Land Grant
Corporation for
National and
Community Service
Department of Labor
Department of
Agriculture
Charlie Galbraith
Toni Wilson
Sylvia Thomas
Cathea Simelton
Ron Lessard
Youth Build
Manpower
Analyst
National Liaison
Strategic Advisor
for Native
American Affairs
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Corporation for National
and Community Service
National Indian Organization Participants
Name
Title
Organization
Alejandro
Development &
National Council Of
Bermudez-DelTechnology
Urban Indian Health
Villar
Director
Shapiro
Cambridge
Behavioral
Health Research
&
Communications
Assistant
Public Health
Project
Coordinator
Representative
National Council of
Urban Indian Health
Colin Kippen
Executive
Director
National Indian
Education Association
Beth Wonson
Director of
Operations
National Indian Youth
Leadership Project
Blake Harper
Karen Funk
Bart Crawford
Native Youth
Name
Raquel Bahe
National Indian Health
Board
National Indian Child
Welfare Association
National Indian Youth
Leadership Project
Title
Center for Native
American Youth
Brianna Carrier
Daniel Knudsen
Rose Petoskey
Rachel DeMarce
Tewasontahawitha
Porter
Udall Intern
Udall Intern
Udall Intern
DOI - Intern
WINS
Intern/SAMHSA
Mark Carter
Asim Shah
Lara Kanitra
DOJ Intern
DOJ Intern
DOJ Intern
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Themes:
 The wellness of Native youth is a COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY.
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Better coordination, consolidation and simplification of programs for Native American
Youth; need for simplified process for identifying and securing programs and resources.
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Need to consider the involvement of urban Indian youth in federal programs and
resources.
Opening traditional blessing offered by Laura Ansera, Tribal Youth Coordinator, Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Center for Native American Youth Introduction
Erin Bailey & Josie Raphaelito
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Overview of the Center
Center’s Milwaukee Youth Summit
Development of resource guide on Native youth issues
(http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/native-american-youth/Resources)
Dialogue:
o Dennis Romero asks that the federal agencies commit to sharing with the Center
information on activities, events and resources they have relating to Native
American youth. This way we will have all the information in one place.
o The Center will develop a calendar of events.
White House Office of Public Engagement
Charlie Galbraith
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White House webpage dedicated to Native Americans launched on June 28, 2011 –
www.whitehouse.gov/nativeamericans
Let’s Move in Indian Country – launched from the Menominee Reservation in May 2011
Community Leaders Briefing Series – agencies and stakeholders are invited to spread the
word on this series. More information at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/webform/whitehouse-community-leaders-briefing-series.
Want to get Native youth into the White House and feel connected to the Administration.
All should contact Charlie at charles_W_Galbraith@who.eop.gov to set up tours or
meetings when Native youth are in town. Charlie needs at least a few weeks lead time.
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Byron Dorgan - Center for Native American Youth Founder
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Welcome and thank you. Excited about so many agencies coming together to think about
addressing Native American Youth issues.
White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities
Bill Mendoza
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Tribal colleges and university (TCU) initiatives serves 15,000 American Indian students
(strict certification of who is a Native student)
o Native students at tribal college and universities are at a minimum 65% more
successful if they study at a TCU and transfer to a non-TCU college or university
Tribal colleges and universities create an impact on all of Indian Country and also urban
communities - impact 30,000 Native Americans across the US
Quick facts
o In a pool of 60 Native students – 21 will graduate and go on to a post-secondary
college, and of those 2 will graduate with a degree
o It takes 12,000 9th graders to produce 1 master’s degree
Purpose of the White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities office is to
increase support and capacity of funding for Tribal colleges and universities
Consultation - go out into tribal and urban Indian communities with Department of
Education for consultations (Denver, LA, Green Bay, and other regions with high
concentrations of American Indian students in system and tribal schools); – list:
edtribalconsultations.org
Needs in the tribal college and university system:
o Lack of teachers and resources – need an integrative system
o Need for language, culture, history in the curriculum
o Better coordination
Programs
o $104 million for formula grants to Indian tribes – dropout prevention, after-school
programs
o 19 million for competitive grants for higher education –state school districts,
Indian tribes and institutions of post-secondary
o 4 million for national activities, data collection – prioritize
o Tribal education agency funds – bigger impact of schools located on tribal lands
o $34/33 million Native Hawaiian/Alaska native activities
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Discussion - Education
Colin Kippen – National Indian Education Association
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Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing on their recently introduced Indian
education legislation on June 30th at 2:15 PM.
Department of Justice
Laura Ansera, Karol Mason, Bethany Case, Kathleen Gless, Mary Kate Markano
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DOJ Youth Summit – July 24-28, 2011 in Santa Fe, NM
o Goal: serve Native American youth and carry out the mission of the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Drug Endangered Children (DEC)
Defending Childhood (hallmark of the Attorney General) – develop strategy to assist
youth exposed to violence
o Want a strong tribal focus (two tribal sites: Chippewa Cree and Rosebud)
Internet Crimes Against Children – barrier since many communities don’t have internet
Amber Alert – tribes that have 3 way access the Amber alert system;
o 10 tribal site for Amber Alert
o Amber Alert provided support in MN to tribes recently, successfully getting back
2 kids
Office of Victims of Crime –
o Flandreau Indian School Demonstration Project – improve services to students
who are victims of crime
 Demo project helps fund school staff positions like Mental Health
Therapists, Dorm Mental Health Counselors
o Office sees a need for identifying summer camps or safe places for Native
students to go during the summer
o Produced two DVDs:
 Faith-Based Responses to Crime Victims and Healing Journey
o Children’s Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities Program – tribal
communities implement their own model and develop culturally responsive
programs
 support 13 programs
o Formula funding – victims compensation
 Issue: money goes through states – new this year, a demonstration project
to improve funding to tribes (competitive solicitation)
o Office funds staff who assist victims in Indian Country
Justice counsel – established in 2005 and then in 2007 elevated to senior level officials
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Discussion: How to improve and increase DOJ services to Natives in with urban communities –
(DOJ and Alejandro and Shapiro from the National Council of Urban Indian Health)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration – Office of Indian Alcohol and
Substance Abuse
Dennis Romero
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Office came to fruition through the Tribal Law and Order Act
o Law states that the office will be established and provide leadership and
coordination across the federal agencies
Dennis is working with national Indian organizations to discuss and work together on
alcohol and substance abuse issues
Alcohol and substance abuse isn’t the result but a symptom – need a holistic approach
Office houses an Interagency coordinating committee
Dennis is partially detailed to the Department of Justice – works there two days a week
o Created a working group to put together a needs assessment and SAMHSA is
providing technical assistance
o There is a charter of the committee which will ask agencies to adhere to
guidelines, at the end of clearance process
Tribal Law and Order Act – Bureau of Indian Education works with SAMHSA to
develop an inventory of resources available to at-risk youth and develop a measure to see
how well it is going.
Department of Labor – YouthBuild
Sylvia Thomas, Toni Wilson
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Youth Build was transferred to Department of Labor in 2006
Program is for youth aged 16 to 24
Department of Labor dollar can only be used for construction occupational skill training
(with the exception of 10%), so the majority of the YouthBuild programs reach out to
other resources to offer other types of training
http://www.youthbuildpcs.org/
5% of YouthBuild dollars/programs currently go to tribal organizations and tribes; 18,000
youth enrolled in YouthBuild – 1,000 are Native youth
Receive funding and have 2 years of programming for each youth plus one year of follow
up; goal is to get students up one grade level (50% success rate)
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o Helping young person get a high school diploma or GED – promise once you
graduate you can go into a job, post-secondary education or apprenticeship
Working to connect with community colleges
Regional Peer to Peer: target Indian Country
Provide technical assistance– electronic resources web-portal
Cost and outline of program
Department of Labor also has an office called Division of Indian and Native American
Programs
Discussion: How to create more Youth Build programs in urban Indian communities.
Office of Advocacy and Outreach: Higher Education Initiatives 1994 Land Grant
Cathea Simelton
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Office of Advocacy and Outreach -1994 Land Grant Institutions and minority programs
Morrill Act – US Congress allotted land to each state and the states could either accept
money or land to create an educational institution
o 1994 institutions are for the most part in NW and usually accepted the money
4 major programmatic areas
Target high school students to bring them into USDA – 4 Native students currently in the
program – obligated to 1 year of service in USDA for each year of funding
o Biggest challenge is to bring kids out of Indian Country
Partnership with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Tribal Colleges -3 USDA liaisons in the field (1 MT, 1 ND and 1 in DC)
Terra Preta do Indo Fellowship – fellowship for students who education is with or
partnered with tribal college and university – no service obligation; low participation
Discussion: Could the USDA partner with DOJ on a re-entry program? (Karol Mason)
Action Summit on Suicide Prevention – Update from Cheryl Peterson of the Indian Health
Service
 August 1-4, Scottsdale Arizona
 http://www.ihs.gov/suicidepreventionsummit/documents/Action_Summit_Flyer.pdf
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National Indian Youth Leadership Project
Beth Wonson & Bart Crawford
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Primary objectives of the National Indian Youth Leadership Project and Project Venture
curriculum, impact –
o Substance abuse
o And now teen pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases, and suicide prevention.
Indirect Approach to prevention project works and would love to expand to new areas
o Currently in 70 communities and now working with Canada.
Working with National network to eliminate disparities
Support organizations in grant writing
Operate a summer camp: 110 youth for 7 days – camp in NM
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