Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2005, $225,000)
The Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria will provide interventions for court-involved tribal youth with a focus on restitution, diversion, home detention, foster and shelter care, and will provide alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs with a focus on drug and/or alcohol prevention education. The age of juveniles to be served by the Youth Empowerment Program is 9 to 17. The targeted number of juveniles to be served is 150 Native American youth. The youth will receive program services for court advocacy, restitution, diversion, home detention, foster and shelter care home placements. Additionally, youth will receive program services for case management, community resourcing and referral services, culturally relevant and culturally appropriate projects and activities, and drug/alcohol awareness education and resiliency skill building.CA/NCF