Grantees - Michigan (TYP)

The Bay Mills Indian Community will provide prevention services to 10-15 youth annually (ages 11-18 years) to impact risk factors affecting delinquency. The programs goal is to reduce and prevent substance abuse, unhealthy behavior, and delinquency in youth living on the Bay Mills Reservation in Chippewa County Michigan. The Junior Staff Career Development Program (JSCDP) will be operated as part of the Boys & Girls Club of Bay Mills and will assist young people in acquiring skills and qualities needed to become responsible citizens and leaders. JSCDPs strategy includes adopting a philosophy which identifies within each youth a sense of competence, a sense of usefulness, a sense of belonging, and a sense of power and influence.

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Hannahville Indian Community, MI

Project Title: QUEST

Category: I

The Hannahville Indian Community will provide preventative services to 158 youth (ages 8 – 17) living on, or near, the Hannahville Potawatomi Reservation in Michigan . The goal of the program is to reduce juvenile delinquency by increasing youth self-confidence, personal empowerment, and personal achievement. The programs strategy includes operating a recreation program, Project QUEST, which immerses youth in challenging outdoor recreational activities. QUEST will strategically involve youth in planned activities during times in which they would otherwise be most susceptible to acts of delinquency. These high-risk times are after school, weekends and school vacations. Planned activities consist of backpacking, canoeing, hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, snowshoeing. Performance measures will include those set forth in OJJDPs FY05 TYP solicitation.

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Huron Potawatomi, Inc., MI

Project Title: Potawatomi Youth Program

Category: I

The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi will provide afterschool and summer prevention services to 40 youth (ages 12–17) on the Pine Creek Reservation in Fulton, Michigan . The programs goal is to prevent juvenile delinquency by targeting risk factors that impact delinquency. The programs strategy includes offering afterschool and summer activities to at-risk youth from the Huron Potawatomi Tribe. Youth will participate in a Leadership Program designed around the 40 Developmental Assets and the Seven Grandfather Teachings. Once risk factors are identified among the youth, the program will target those risk factors and prevent them through this specially designed curriculum.

2004 Tribal Youth Program Grantees

Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

Project Title: Little Traverse Bay Tribal Youth Program

Category: II, III

The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB or Tribe) is requesting funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Tribal Youth Program for development and implementation of a juvenile justice system under the category :improve the tribal juvenile justice system. The Project will also address the category of :provide interventions for court-involved tribal youth, as a secondary focus and only during the implementation phase of the juvenile justice system. The age of the juveniles served by the proposed Project will range from age 10 through 17. Currently there are close to 90 youth within the Tribe's reservation area in this age group. There are currently two youth offenders within the LTBB court system and approximately 52 cases were reported in the Michigan State Court system in Charlevoix and Emmet counties in the last year.

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Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan

Project Title: Sault Ste. Marie Tribal Youth Mental Health Initiative

Category: I, II

This project will develop and implement a traditional mental health services treatment model which will target 300 Native youth ages 8-18, and their families, at risk for serious mental health problems. The project will develop and implement a culturally relevant service delivery model for youth within the context of Native cultural values. In Year 1 and 2, the project will pilot test the model in the service area and present to other Native communities within the region to which Central Council delivers services. In Year 3, a model will be refined and exported to other Native communities within southeast Alaska with similar challenges in the area of youth mental health issues. Central Council will be developing a model around key questions. What is the long term vision for Native youth mental health services; what has worked in the past; what need to be changed; what constitutes a healthy community based on Tlingit and Haida values and what should a mental health services program look like for Tlingit and Haida youth and families confronted with financial and cultural barriers; how has traditional culture address issues of healing and mental health, and what are the resources required to address child mental health needs.

2003 Tribal Youth Program Grantee

Saginaw Chippewa Tribe

Project: Red Road Project

Category: I. Prevention Services to Impact Risk Factors for Delinquency; II. Intervention for Court-Involved Youth; III. Improvement of Tribal Juvenile Justice Systems; IV. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Programs

The Saginaw Tribe is located in central Michigan. The Red Road Project has two goals: improve the tribal juvenile justice system and reduce offenses or incidents of juvenile delinquency. These goals are achieved through the development and implementation of a juvenile code, the development of an elders council to oversee delinquency cases in tribal court, the development of programs that address risk factors, a youth council, afterschool activities, and culture-based prevention programs. The Red Road Project serves youth ages 10 to 17 and is based on a diversion philosophy, which incorporates the elders council. The elders council members serve as peacemakers or mediators and use Chippewa culture, processes, and practices to handle juvenile cases. The prevention activities are based on community-specific research and culturally appropriate methods such as a youth council and family culture camps.

2002 Tribal Youth Program Grantee

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians

Project: Tribal Youth and Mental Health Enhancement Program

Category: I. Reduce, Control, and Prevent Indian Juvenile Crime; II. Intervention for Court-Involved Youth; III. Improvement to Tribal Juvenile Justice Systems; IV. Prevention Programs Focusing on Alcohol and Drugs

The Sault Ste. Marie program targets youth age 17 and under and their families. The program enhances existing services through effective coordination of tribal and other resources. The tribe is hiring an additional psychologist and establishing components of the Tribal Youth and Mental Health Enhancement Program to solidify tribally based, intensive mental health services to adjudicated youth. The project enables children to remain at home and in the community with improved functioning to ensure community safety. The project reduces dependence on restrictive environments such as residential services and helps to lower the cost of services while building the strengths of individuals and families through targeted mental and behavioral health services. A wraparound service approach incorporates culturally relevant programming (Medicine Wheel Treatment Plan) and activities for youth at-risk for court involvement due to substance abuse, behavioral disorders, and delinquency.

2001 Tribal Youth Program Grantees

Bay Mills Indian Community

Project: Native Pride Troop

Category: IV. Prevention Programs Focusing on Alcohol and Drugs

The Native Pride Troop (NPT) is a group of 7 to l0 native youth who will be performing traditional and contemporary music and dance that bring a message of a positive, productive, and healthy lifestyle. NPT will reach out to youth through a medium the youth understand. Each performance includes traditional and original music to focus on the temptations and obstacles that young people face. Each presentation has a discussion and lecture session. In addition, there is both a before and after test to measure the strength of the programs message. In addition, compact discs will be produced to spread the message and measure the success of NPT.

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Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians

Project: Grand Traverse Band Juvenile Justice System Improvement Project

Category: III. Improvement to Tribal Juvenile Justice Systems

The Grand Traverse Band is improving the current juvenile justice system. The first step is to conduct a needs assessment. Once the needs assessment has been completed, training of key court personnel takes place. In addition to training for the roles and responsibilities of the key personnel, there is training on strategies for implementing change in the system. The Tribal Law & Policy Institute has been contacted to provide the training. The third step is to implement recommended changes. This will be done in collaboration with the Tribal Council and Cultural Preservation Department. The last steps are evaluation of the project and ongoing self-evaluation.

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Hannahville Indian Community

Project: Tribal Youth Program Mental Health Project

Category: I. Reduce, Control, and Prevent Indian Juvenile Crime; II. Intervention for Court-Involved Youth; III. Improvement to Tribal Juvenile Justice Systems; IV Prevention Programs Focusing on Alcohol and Drugs

The Hannahville Indian Community is improving its system of care to be more culturally relevant and appropriate. This helps reduce out-of-home placement and hospitalization, improves case management, and increases family participation in treatment for at-risk and adjudicated youth. The project is based on a grassroots, collaborative, problem-solving community approach. The project assists staff in identifying at-risk and adjudicated youth for referral to psychological evaluations that assess the best treatment for youth. The evaluation process begins the diagnostic needs assessment, which is used to define case management for enhanced service delivery to youth. A collaborative team of administrators, service providers, and families meets regularly to identify needs, processes, and outcomes in response to needs of youth and families.

2000 Tribal Youth Program Grantees

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians

Project: Grand Traverse Band Tribal Youth Program

Category: I. Reduce, Control, and Prevent Indian Juvenile Crime

The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians is addressing truancy with Native American children through a cultural perspective. The program is working with project staff to develop a plan for truancy prevention and reduction, essential elements of this plan, along with home visits and referrals to services and programs. The three main objectives of the proposed project are to educate the Native American community about the need to address truant behavior early, decrease the capacity of the Native American community to tolerate truancy, and increase the capacity of the Native American community to assess the needs of the truant or those at risk of truancy and their families.

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Hannahville Indian Community

Project: INTERFACE, Hannahvilles Tribal Youth Program

The Hannahville Indian Community is hiring a tribal youth worker to monitor tribal youth who are on probation, returning from out-of-home placement, or receiving specialized substance abuse counseling. The tribe selected INTERFACE as the title of its initiative to highlight the fact that INTERFACE is more than a youth probation program—its an intensive, interactive model that interfaces with each youth and all the systems involved in that youths life.