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Meth Free Crowalition

Summary

The Apsaalooke Nation Housing Authority's (ANHA) Meth Free Crowalition (MFC) was designed as a community prevention program for the purposes of providing alternative activities, particularly aimed at youth in the seven reservation community districts.

"The APIP utilizes the Apsaalooke way of life to design a Apsaalooke PIP curriculum utilizing a similar model as NICWA, however applying Apsaalooke Culture, Values and Beliefs in the 8 training sessions.

The Apsaalooke PIP developed a program that instructs parents in the culture and history of the Apsaalooke Nation along with the Apsaalooke Parenting Techniques pasted down from generation.



"Designed to provide a brief, practical culturally specific training program for Apsaalooke parents to explore the values and attitudes expressed in traditional Indian child‐treating practices and then to apply those values to modern skills in parenting."

Retrieved from http://www.cffutures.org/files/presentations/ImplementedEvidenceBasedParentingPrograms.pdf
Details

The Meth Free Crowalition was a Regional Partnership Grantee (RPG) of SAMHSA’s National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (2007-2012). The final report indicated the following performance indicators:

Safety

Those identifying safety as a problem (serious, moderate, or mild) decreased from almost 31% at the baseline to approximately 19% at conclusion. This reflects a growth in a perception of public safety over time. However, the overall environment score increased from 9.2% to 12.8% identifying it as a problem.

Parenting

This trend continues throughout the overall domain scores where the problems have actually increased over time, at least as perceived by the participants. However, due to all of the issues with the data and its collection, the validity of and consistency of the data cannot be verified.

Retrieved from https://ncsacw.samhsa.gov/technical/rpg-i.aspx?id=90

The results for Round I RPGs are included in this report: “Regional Partnership Grant (Rpg) Program: Final Synthesis And Summary Report,” https://ncsacw.samhsa.gov/files/Final_SSR.pdf
Tribally created
  • Child
  • Community
  • Family
  • Tribe
Substance abuse
  • Build trust and confidence in community
  • Community support when faced with challenges
  • Concrete support for parents
  • Involvement in positive activities
  • Knowledge of parenting and child development
  • Positive school environment
  • Positive social connection and support
  • Safe community focus
  • Community involvement/participation/contribution
  • Connecting with cultural resources
  • Cultural community gatherings
  • Cultural identity/sense of belonging to cultural group
  • Spiritual values/well-being
  • Support (family, friends, community)/interdependence
Setting

Meth Free Crowalition: https://ncsacw.samhsa.gov/technical/rpg-i.aspx?id=90

Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) Program: Final Synthesis and Summary Report: https://ncsacw.samhsa.gov/files/Final_SSR.pdf