Seven Generation Focus: Building Special Programming for Youth Empowerment

October 27, 2022 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. EST

The Reclaiming our Future: Indigenizing Strategic Planning to Address Social Determinants of Health Community of Learning will provide Urban Indian Health Organizations’ (UIO), UIO leadership, behavioral health providers, and grant development staff the skills to help sustain current funding and secure new funding. Each session will incorporate didactic learning and engaging activities.

In this session, participants will be learning the following objectives:

1. Discuss best practices in assessing the needs of the general AI/AN populations with a focus on youth and wrap-around services through local and national funding
2. Identify best practices to coordinate multiple funding streams for general AI/AN populations with a focus on youth empowerment.
3. Learn innovative program design that infuses culture in planning and evaluating general AI/AN populations with a focus on youth empowerment

Presenters:

• Auna Castellon
  College and Career Readiness Manager | NAYA Family Center
• Becca Gruner (Citizen of the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians)
  Culture, Education, and Wellness Manager | NAYA Family Center