Tribal Youth Program to operate modern and traditional ways for the prevention of crimes.

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs proposes to reduce negative risk factors for tribal youth to improve the well-bring of individuals, families, and the tribal environment. Through collaboration with Tribal Youth-serving departments the project seeks to reduce the juvenile arrest and recidivism rates while creating and maintaining a positive connection between youth, community, and schools. The primary objectives of this program are as follows: (1) Utilizing a youth assessment tool to identify risk and protective factors to gauge the effectiveness of program services; (2) Strengthening collaboration of Tribal youth serving departments to reinforce protective factors, and reduce risk factors; (3) Implementing modern and traditional interventions for court involved youth (such as Family Court, Youth Court, Community Sweat Project, Tribal Youth Dry Shed, Gender specific Groups); and (4) Providing cognitive training, crime prevention assessment training, and motivational interviewing to Tribal Youth program staff. The following performance measures will be used to gauge progress: Tribal Court arrest/recidivism rates of youth and grades/attendance within the school district. CA/NCF