March
Love Our Mother Earth and Protect One Another
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“Auntie” responds to questions about the Coronavirus
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We R Native’s “Ask Auntie” has taken a proactive stance reaching out to native youth about the coronavirus.
Watch
and share her response.
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Women's History Month - Honoring our Native Women
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March is Women's History Month. To honor our amazing Native Women,
We R Native
is posting a prominent Indigenous Woman everyday, both past and present.
#WomensHistoryMonth #HonoringNativeWomen
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Get the Word Out!
March 20th is National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day!
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Recent
data
shows that Native people are among the hardest hit populations for HIV/AIDS. American Indians & Alaska Native youth and young adults can end the epidemic of HIV/AIDs in their lifetime if provided basic information about STD/HIV/AIDS risks and reducing the stigma of misconceptions through raising awareness, offering education and having culturally-relevant resources for identification!
A national Native movement is taking place to provide for free culturally relevant print and social media campaign resources ideal for websites, local health settings, classrooms and community spaces!
Words of Wisdom Taken from the
Native STAND HIV/AIDS
– Lessons:
“Man has responsibility, not power." ~ Tuscarora
“It’s easy to be brave from a safe distance." ~ Omaha
#Let’s Stop HIV Together!
Click
here
for additional sources.
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Curricula News and Updates
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Curricula Highlight:
Responding to Concerning Posts on Social Media
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Concerning posts include those that express depression or intent to hurt oneself or others, posted on social media. These disclosures may provide new opportunities to identify youth at-risk and connect them to appropriate resources and support.
The 1-hour training webinar video is designed for adults who work with Native youth + lesson plans with supporting materials can all be found online:
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Respecting the Circle of Life
Curricula Recognized as EBP!
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Respecting the Circle of Life (RCL)
is the only evidence-based program proven effective through rigorous evaluation to promote positive youth development and reduce behavioral health risk factors underlying teenage pregnancy in Native communities. Grantee applicants can use RCL in grant applications (including Tier 1 TPP grants due April 13, 2020)!
To learn more about the RCL evidence-based program, contact
Lauren Tingey
, PhD, Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health.
See
Respecting the Circle of Life
in action! Watch this
video
!
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Broaden Existing Programming
Try a New Curricula Enhancement Activity!
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Healthy Native Youth’s ongoing goal is to build up your educator toolbox and to respond to community needs!
The
Enhancement Activities
pull from several evaluated health resources on the HNY site, while other activity guides have been created from scratch. These tools can be used to connect youth to culture as a protective factor, while covering vital information about sexual health, mental health, personal development and rule-setting, identity, dating and relationships, drug and alcohol use, suicide prevention, internet safety, and bullying.
Check out
the
latest curriculum enhancements
by clicking
here
with more to be added soon!
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More Resources For Your Youth
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Keep Youth Safe on Social Media
Special 2 Hour CoP Session: Human Trafficking and Missing & MMIR
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There has been a growing national effort to promote public awareness about Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) throughout Indian Country & Alaska, but women are not the only ones affected.
Save-the-Date:
April 8th at 10 AM PST
to learn more about the intersections of vulnerability for human trafficking and exploitation. Learn ways to collaborate to promote awareness and create innovative local solutions.
March’s Community of Practice session, covering “Supporting Youth Experiencing Trauma in the Classroom & Beyond,” was led by guest speakers from the University of Montana’s National Native Children’s Trauma Center. In case you missed it,
check it out here!
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Safe on Social Media:
Human Trafficking and Missing & MMIR
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#MMIWG PSA created by THRIVE Conference Youth
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Youth from the 2019 THRIVE Conference partnered with OXDX to create a shirt design that focuses on bringing awareness to Murdered Missing Indigenous Women and Girls.
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HNY, We R Native & ‘Celebrating Our Magic’ Toolkit on the road! Come see us!
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National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
March 20, 2020
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“Resilience + Action: Ending the HIV Epidemic in Native Communities”
is the theme for the National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD) 2020 to highlight current health and biomedical strategies and community
responses to HIV/AIDS in tribal and urban communities.
The National Native HIV Network (NNHN)
has taken the lead the national coordination of NNHAAD activities, social marketing/social media, and announcements that include NNHAAD website update, national calendar of events, social media, electronic social marketing materials and outreach.
This year’s NNHAAD poster was designed by Jolene Yazzie (Diné) to include this year’s theme to protect our people by ending the HIV epidemic and inclusion of cultural images and advocates in HIV prevention for our American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. Agencies and individuals, can download and print this year’s poster at
www.nnhaad.org
and also include contact information and/or NNHAAD activities in the blank space at the bottom of the poster.
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Do you know any native youth or young adults who are interested in Science, Technology, Engineering
or Math?
We R Native’s
STEM campaign has been updated with new content, tips, and resources help to get native youth engaged and excited about STEM!
If you ask, Why STEM for Natives? Click
here
. Raising Healthy Native Youth while planting that seed to STEM is both important and necessary to grow our next Native gen towards a professional workforce for our native communities!
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