TOPIC: Native American Students

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

• Introductory Packet: Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning

• American Indian and Alaska Native: A Guide to Build Cultural Awareness
• American Indian- Alaska Native Youth Health
• American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
• Association of American Indian Physicians
• Challenges Facing American Indian Youth: On the Front Lines with Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell
• College Horizons: Preparing Native American Students for College and Graduate School
• Comprehensive Planning: Guidance for Educators of American Indian and Alaska Native Students
• Countering Prejudice Against American Indians and Alaska Natives Through Antibias Curriculum and Instruction
• Cultural Strengths and Challenges in Implementing a System of Care Model in American Indian Communities
• Drop-Out Rates Among American Indian and Alaska Native Students: Beyond Cultural Discontinuity
• Ensuring the Seventh Generation: A Youth Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Tribal Child Welfare Programs
• Evaluation/Assessment of Navajo Peacemaking
• High School Redesign and Native American Students
• Indian Child Welfare Act: A Pilot Study of Compliance in Arizona (pdf document)
• Issues in the Education of American Indian and Alaska Native Students with Disabilities
• Mental health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity - A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• National Congress of American Indians(NACI)
• National Indian Justice Center(NIJC)
• Native American Cultural Center - Yale College
• New American Indian and Alaskan Native Culture Pocket Guide
• Overview of the National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
• Program Announcement: Tribal Youth Program Mental Health Program
• SAMHSA News Release: $2.4 Million Available to Improve Mental Health Services for American Indian/Alaska Native Children, Youth and Families
• Schools, Principals, and Teachers Serving American Indian and Alaska Native Students
• Services in Native American Communities
• Teaching Young Children about Native Americans
• "Tribal Youth Program Web Page," Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Web site.
• United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. Fact Sheet

• National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
• National Indian Child Welfare Association
• NativeWeb Resources
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance
• American Indian & Science Engineering Society Multi-Cultural Educational Reform Programs
• Native Health Research Database
• Indian Health Service
• Aboriginal Mental Health Research Team
• Office of Minority Health Resource Center
• National Indian School Board Association
• Indian Child Welfare Law Center
• Indigenous Education Links
• Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)
• American Indian/Alaska Native Children, Youth, and Families; Mental Health and Community Safety Initiative
• American Indian Policy Center
• Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Academic Persistence Among Native American College Students. Jackson, Aaron P.; Smith, Steven A.; Hill, Curtis L. Journal of College Student Development. July 1, 2003.
• A community-centered education:  "We do not own our children, we must honor them in all ways".  Johnson, Paul Envisioning. In: Maenette Kape 'ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Benham, Ed; Joanne Elizabeth Cooper, Ed. Indigenous educational models for contemporary practice:  In our mother's voice..
>Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers: Mahwah, NJ, US Mahwah, NJ, US, 2000. p. 127-133 of xxi, 204pp. Series title: Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education.
• Cultural differences in child development: Navajo adolescents in middle schools.  Deyhle, Donna; LeCompte, Margaret. In: Rosa Hernandez Sheets, Ed; Etta R. Hollins, Ed. Racial and ethnic identity in school
practices:  Aspects of human development.. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers: Mahwah, NJ, US Mahwah, NJ, US, 1999. p. 123-139 of ix, 271pp.
• Help-seeking behavior of Native American Indian high school students. Bee-Gates, Donna; Howard-Pitney, Beth; LaFromboise, Teresa; Rowe, Wayne. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice. American Psychological Assn.: US, 1996 Oct. 27 (5): p. 495-499.
• Mental health and the academic performance of first nations and majority-culture children. Beiser, Morton; Sack, William; Manson, Spero M.; Redshirt, Roy; Dion, Rene. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. American Orthopsychiatric Assn: US, 1998 Jul. 68 (3): p. 455-467.
• Resiliency in Native American and immigrant families. McCubbin, Hamilton I., Ed; Thompson, Elizabeth A., (Ed); Thompson, Anne I., (Ed); Fromer, Julie E., (Ed). Sage Publications, Inc: Thousand Oaks, CA, US, 1998. xviii, 454pp. Series title: Resiliency in families series, Vol. 2.
• Serving Native American children and families: Considering cultural variables. Robinson-Zanartu, Carol. Language, Speech, & Hearing Services in Schools. American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn: US, 1996 Oct. 27 (4): p. 373-384.
• Serving Native American Students (New Directions for Student Services, #109). Garland, John L. Journal of College Student Development. September 1, 2007.
• The Nee-kon project: Designing and implementing prevention strategies for young Native American children. Laquer, Barbara. Drugs & Society. Haworth Press Inc: US, 1998. 12 (1-2): p. 23-37.
• Unmet needs for substance abuse and mental health services among Northern Plains American Indian adolescents. Novins, Douglas K.; Beals, Janette; Sack, William H.; Manson, Spero M. Psychiatric Services. American Psychiatric Association: US, 2000 Aug. 51 (8): p. 1045-1047.

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