Tribal Behavioral Health 104: Culture is Prevention

Tribal Behavioral Health 104: Culture is Prevention will inform Tribes, Tribal Serving Organizations and public health professionals about the use of culturally appropriate programs and practices for substance abuse prevention. Examples of success stories from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes’ Tradition Not Addiction Prevention Program will be used to provide valuable examples.This course will inform Tribes, Tribal Serving Organizations and public health professionals about the use of culturally appropriate programs and practices for substance abuse prevention. Examples of success stories from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes’ Tradition Not Addiction Prevention Program will be used to provide valuable examples.

Learning Objectives:

• Define culturally appropriate programs and practices (Tribal Best Practices)
• Explain why lack of reliable data for AI/AN is a major barrier to public health interventions
• Recognize the importance of high quality data to identify AI/AN health and behavioral health disparities
• Describe the positive response AI/AN have to culturally appropriate messages
• Identify the real-world strategies, programs and practices that have proven successful in a traditional American Indian Tribe in Central Oklahoma
• Recognize the need smaller tribes have for epidemiological expertise to help obtain funding and implement relevant programs
• Identify the existing capacity that exists in all Native Tribes for using Culture as Prevention