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Protecting our Most Vulnerable – Strengthening Supports for Unsheltered & Runaway Native Youth (The 2nd of a 4-part Online Learning Event Series)

This will be the second of a TYRC Online Learning Event series focused on the needs and current service gaps of unsheltered and runaway Native youth across the country. During this Online Learning Event (OLE), Frankie White Dress, Director, Oglala Sioux Tribe Emergency Youth Shelter, and Sheri Riemers (Nindaanisequay, White Earth Nation) Executive Director, Ain Duh Young Center (www.adycenter.org), will share prevention and intervention strategies that are proving to be successful in working with unsheltered and runaway Native youth. Alejandra Bruyere, California Native Youth Collective Representative for the Center for Native American Youth, will also share stories of resilience and hope. Data collection strategies and resources on this topic will be provided during the OLE to support OLE participants that are seeking to expand their services to this population of Native youth.

Media Type: PDF Video
Keywords: capacitybuilding childwelfare community indiancountry indiancountryyouth intervention involvement prevention strengths TribalCommunity youth

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Jeri Brunoe, Consultant, Ethleen Iron Cloud-Two Dogs, Training and Technical Assistance Manager, Deborah Tobacco, Training and Technical Assistance Specialist, Tribal Youth Resource Center, Frankee White Dress (Oglala Sioux Tribe - OST), Director, Emergency Youth Shelter, Alejandra Gomez (First Nations Ojibwe-Cree & Chicana), Sheri Riemers (Nindaanisequay-White Earth Nation), Executive Director, Ain Dah Yung Center

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August 11, 2023