2023 COSSUP National Forum Tribal Sessions
Session Title
Best Practices for Implementing Peer Recovery Support Services with Alaska Native Populations
Session Details
Alaska Native populations provide a unique perspective on how to engage peer recovery support services within their communities. This session focuses on highlighting the innovative ways that Alaska Native villages and organizations serving them have implemented peer recovery support services and demonstrating the successes in engaging their populations. The session will provide information from focus groups and roundtables held earlier in 2023 through collaboration of RurAL CAP, the National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College and Altarum. Additionally, Cook Inlet Tribal Council and Tanana Chiefs Conference PRSS programs will provide a discussion of the challenges and successes to implementing peers within the services in their communities.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to
• describe the peer recovery support services that are being implemented in Alaskan Native populations
• identify best practices that can be replicated in their communities based on the strategies being utilized with Alaska Native Populations to implement peer recovery support services within their community
Presenters:
• Caley Small, Project Coordinator, Community Health, Altarum
• Sarah Chivers, Peer Recovery Supervisor, Cook Inlet Tribal Council
• Bobby Dorton, Reentry Program Manager, Tanana Chiefs Conference
• Kevin Mariano, Project Coordinator, National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College
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Innovative and Culturally Based Approaches to Tribal Law Enforcement Intervention and Prevention
Session Description:
The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians (CTCLUSI) are uniquely located within 5 counties along the Oregon coast. The CTCLUSI Tribal Police Department is implementing innovative and multijurisdictional approaches to supporting individuals struggling with alcohol and substance use and misuse, including their Community Service Officer position. Based on collaborating well with the counties, following booking at local correctional facilities, they are able to get tribal members connected in with healing to wellness courts, and if the programs are successfully completed, the charges can be deferred/removed. CTCLUSI Tribal Police are also implementing youth outreach efforts and work closely with the schools on prevention efforts and fostering positive youth connections. This session will highlight CTLUSI Tribal Law Enforcement program successes, promising practices and lessons learned.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to
• Describe successes of Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians Tribal Law Enforcement programs
• Identify best practices that can be replicated in their communities
• Explain the importance and benefits of culturally based law enforcement interventions
Presenters:
• Brian Dubray, Chief of Police, Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians Tribal Police Department
• Rob Snyder, Community Service Officer, Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians Tribal Police Department
• Kevin Mariano, Project Coordinator, National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College
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Attending to the Whole Person: Culturally Attuned Services that Promote Healing and Build Community
Session Description
This session will highlight Lummi Nation’s holistic, wraparound and culturally-based treatment and reentry services to support tribal members in their recovery journeys. Examples include the Lummi Counseling Services program; multidisciplinary collaboration between tribal reentry, law enforcement, and behavioral health/treatment; transitional and recovery housing and more. The Lummi Counseling Services (LCS), is a comprehensive substance abuse treatment program that includes the Lummi Healing Spirit Clinic Opiate Treatment Program (OTP). The LCS program also offers education and resources to patients and their families to help them understand addiction, recovery, and the steps needed to maintain sobriety. Lummi’s Kwenangets Department provides tribal reentry services to assist tribal members who are returning form incarceration and in-patient treatment to reorient themselves to the many expectations of the community, their families, and for some the requirements of the legal system. The Reentry Program services help residents prepare for the daily challenges of maintaining a self-supported clean and sober life, for themselves, their families, and the community.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
• Describe the successes of Lummi Nation’s holistic, wraparound and culturally-based treatment and reentry programs
• Summarize lessons learned from program development and implementation of comprehensive treatment and reentry services
• Identify the benefits of culturally driven responses
Presenters:
• Rene Ramirez, Program Sponsor, Lummi Nation Healing Spirit Outpatient Treatment Program
• Jay Martin, Chief of Police, Lummi Nation Police Department
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Leveraging Resources and Partnerships to Implement Successful Harm Reduction Services in a Tribal Community
This session will explore the successes of two tribal programs implementing harm reduction services: the Pueblo of Pojoaque Behavioral Health’s Resources Opportunities Advocacy and Diversion (ROAD) Program and Muscogee Creek Nation Department of Health Substance Use Program. The Pueblo of Pojoaque’s ROAD program will share how they leverage resources and partnerships to bring harm reduction services to their community and meet clients where they are to mitigate negative health outcomes associated with substance use and other risk behaviors. Discussion will also include how MCNDH’s Substance Use Program has proven itself to be among the top tier of treatment providers within tribal nations in Oklahoma by educating tribal members on how to identify an overdose, administer Narcan and raising awareness on available services.
• Identify roadblocks to harm reduction services unique to tribal communities.
• Summarize how the Pueblo of Pojoaque tribal community leveraged partnerships to implement harm reduction services within the community.
• Explain innovative approaches used by the Muscogee Creek Nation Department of Health Substance Use Program.
• Describe how current outreach strategies have increased access to harm reduction services.
Presenters:
•Angel Morfin, CPSW, Program Manager, Pueblo of Pojoaque ROAD Substance Use Diversion Program
•Jill Campoli, M.A., LPCC, Clinical Director, Pueblo of Pojoaque Behavioral Health
Megan Pinasco, LMSW, CMII, Peer Recovery Support Services Program Director, Muscogee Creek Nation Department of Health
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