Grantees - South Dakota (TYP)

The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe is a federally recognized tribe that will be administering the tribal youth program under the following program categories: provide prevention services to impact risk factors for delinquency; and provide alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs. A planning year is not requested. The goal of the program is to serve 550 youth annually ages 6 to 17. This prevention and after-school program will address serious problems on the reservation regarding substance abuse, violence, vandalism, and delinquency. The program will continue to provide enhanced prevention and after-school programming provided by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Lower Brule (BGCLB) that was made possible with a previous OJJDP Tribal Youth Program grant funds. The goal is to continue to provide Boys & Girls Clubs of America programming, integrated with traditional tribal customs and values, to reduce risks of juvenile delinquency. Program staff and volunteers, including Tribal elders, will impart their traditional knowledge to the Tribe's youth. To ensure performance measures are collected, evaluation methods will include a combination of record keeping, data collection, youth feedback, and observation. Boys and Girls Clubs of America board members will be involved in analyzing the data.

2005 Tribal Youth Program

Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, SD

Project Title: Crow Creek Tribal Youth Program

Category: I, IV

The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe will provide prevention services to impact risk factors for juvenile delinquency and will provide alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs. The programs will be targeted to tribal youth ages 13 to 18, and will consist of two components: Peers Helping Peers and Natural Helpers Tribal Schools Peers. Peers Helping Peers will train 100 high risk youth in prevention and intervention skills, life skills and educational skills development and training. These 100 youth will then each train 10 other youth. Natural Helpers will offer prevention services to impact risk factors for delinquency and provide alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs for 50 youth. Crow Creek will report on performance measures including attendance rates, participation surveys, and lowered rates of delinquency and substance abuse among participants.

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Rosebud Sioux Tribe, SD

Project Title: Rosebud SMART Moves Program

Category: IV

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota will provide alcohol and drug abuse prevention programming with its SMART (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training) Moves program. The lead agency for this grant will be the Boys and girls Clubs of Rosebud. SMART Moves will serve 100 youth in year 1, 125 in year 2, and 150 in year 3. There are three programs serving different age groups: SMART kids, serving youth 6 to 9; Start SMART, serving youth 10 to 12; Stay SMART, serving youth 13 to 15. In addition, there is the Act SMART program serving youth in all three programs, and a SMART Parents program as well. Through the program, participants will develop healthy attitudes and learn the skills they need to live healthy lives without using harmful substances such as alcohol and drugs.

2003 Tribal Youth Program

Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe

Project: Tribal Court Youth Program

Category: I. Prevention Services To Impact Risk Factors for Delinquency; II. Intervention for Court-Involved Youth; III. Improvement of Tribal Juvenile Justice Systems

The Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal Court Youth Program provides services to children and youth ages 6 to 17 through the Sisseton tribal court. The program is a diversion alternative aimed at providing secondary prevention services to youth committing status and/or minor offenses and alcohol- or drug-related offenses. The program defers sentencing and refers youth to the program to participate in several interventions that include a drug and alcohol assessment to determine appropriate treatment strategies and monitoring of academic performance and school attendance. The program uses cultural approaches throughout the program and collaborates with other tribal programs and agencies to coordinate services to youth and their families.

2002 Tribal Youth Program

Oglala Sioux Tribe

Project: SMART Moves Project—Sue Anne Big Crow Boys & Girls Club

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

The Oglala Sioux Tribe Tribal Youth Program is implementing a SMART Moves curriculum developed by the national Boys & Girls Clubs of America. SMART Moves is a skills development program for youth ages 6 to 16. It focuses on self-awareness, decisionmaking, and the development of interpersonal skills. Age-appropriate information is provided about alcohol and drug abuse. The Oglala Sioux Tribe runaway and court advocacy programs provide counseling and a support network for youth involved with the courts and coordinate referrals to the Boys & Girls Club for prevention services. This is a collaborative project of the Sue Anne Big Crow Boys & Girls Club and the Oglala Sioux tribal court.

2001 Tribal Youth Program

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

Project: Helping Young People To Change Their Path

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 Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is enhancing the coordination of existing youth programs to prevent youth violence and to provide effective intervention and prevention among tribal youth. The project targets first-time juvenile offenders and juvenile status offenders and directs them into positive community service programs prior to court intervention in order to reduce escalating crime. The project incorporates Lakota beliefs and values to help restore strength and balance with each youth participating in the program. To effectively serve the needs of youth, all service providers within the system participate in a 15-session training on the Red Road Approach to Wellness and Healing. The training will assist in developing a cohesive philosophy among programs. The training also helps programs respond effectively to youth who seek a sense of balance and understanding of self, which are crucial elements to preventing youth violence and substance abuse.

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Lower Brule Sioux Tribe

Project: TEAM Program

Category: I. Reduce, Control, and Prevent Indian Juvenile Crime; IV. Prevention Programs Focusing on Alcohol and Drugs

The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe is building on an existing collaboration of programs for youth. This project enhances services to youth by coordinating programs to reduce substance abuse, violence, and crimes against and by reservation youth. Youth have the opportunity to participate in summer, evening, and weekend activities that focus on education. The activities are in the form of minicourses and minicamps, which focus on math, science, and reading. These subject areas are hands on and culturally relevant; for example, students will be instructed in setting up camp, using reading skills to read instructions, and science and math skills to understand nature and survival. The high school youth provide tutoring, homework assistance, and children's story times to younger children as part of their educational programs. All programs geared toward youth promote taking an active role in working with youth to reduce juvenile delinquency.

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Rosebud Sioux Tribe

Project: Sicangu Youth Corrections and Rehabilitation Program

Category: I. Provide Prevention Services To Impact Risk Factors for Delinquency

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is building the capacity of the tribal court to control, administer, and implement a comprehensive juvenile prevention, diversion, and intervention program. This entails hiring two diversion officers and a juvenile court coordinator, formalizing relationships with community programs and schools, creating a youth advisory board, and making changes to the juvenile code. The youth advisory board will consist of 10 members ages 10 to 17. They will assist the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of school and community-based crime prevention strategies to reduce, control, and prevent crime and delinquency both by and against tribal youth.

2000 Tribal Youth Program

Yankton Sioux Tribe

Project: Yankton Sioux Tribal Youth Program

Category: III. Improvement to Tribal Juvenile Justice Systems; IV. Prevention Programs Focusing on Alcohol and Drugs

The Yankton Sioux Tribe proposes to reestablish and strengthen the bond between youth ages 12 to 24 and their elders through a family-oriented approach to preventing alcohol and drug abuse. Specific activities include developing youth and family assessment services; providing training to service providers on the reservation; linking drug and alcohol treatment programs with personal, life-enhancing support systems, education, and job-training; involving the youth’s family and community in long-term, comprehensive treatment initiatives, plus reestablishing cultural traditions that tie the family together; and establishing the management and coordination framework to tie all public and private resources together.