TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS
Welcome to the Prevention
Dimension
Shu’-yi’de-ghayt-nin’sh
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Shu’-yi-de-ghayt-nin’sh means
We are getting well
Shu’ (sounds like “shoe”)
yi (“i” is a long “a” sound)
de (short “e” like in “den”)
ghayt (sounds like “kite”)
nin’sh (long “e”)
The articles and information you see here are offered as a way to increase
communication and share information, knowledge, and humor. We welcome
questions, suggestions, and artwork from youth age 12 to 17.
Please
contact
Lisa
Brown
at
1-800-600-5599..
or
541-444-8238 to turn in articles or information that may be printed in an upcoming
issue of Siletz News. You also may e-mail documents of interest to lisab@ctsi.nsn.us.
The following article is written by Lisa Brown, Prevention Coordinator
Expanding Your Horizons 2001
Career Conference for Girls, Grades 6-12
April 21, 2001, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m., Lewis & Clark College
Why should you attend?
>• To learn about many different jobs
To meet cool girls and women from all over Oregon
>■ To have fun
To talk to amazing women: band director, veterinarian, engineer, biologist,
geneticist, pilot, auto mechanic, crime scene investigator, and more ...
Fliers and registration forms are available; contact Bonnie Randolph at
503-916-5840, ext. 328. For more information or special needs, please contact
Nancy Huppertz at 503-691-1166. Cost is $4 for youth; adults are free.
EYH conferences are designed to help girls overcome educational disparity
in mathematics, science, computers, and technology. Women role models from a
wide range of occupations will speak to girls about their jobs and emphasize the
importance of taking higher-level math and science classes to broaden occupational
choices throughout their lives.
If you would like info on upcoming conferences and other “girl” stuff, contact
Annette Klinefelter, program director of the Girls’ Initiative Network, at
503-493-3955 or e-mail her at www.girlsinitiativenetwork.org.
“What is “Prevention?”
People often ask, “What is Prevention?” I understand the confusion because
many people think of “prevention” as a concept. It is much more than that. An
important part of the Siletz Tribal Prevention Program process was developing
“The 4 Healing Principles” by members of the Prevention Planning Group.
The principles are printed here for your review. Prevention is an important
part of the process to ensure a healthy, positive future for our tribal membership.
Education, knowledge, and traditions are essential tools that I use in my process
of sharing.
Prevention is the elder in your community who takes the time to read to a
child in the Head Start classroom. It’s the lady at the store who takes the time to
ask a third-grade student how her day has been. It can be represented in a story
that can create a picture. Please contact the Prevention Program if you have ideas
or stories about how prevention happens in your community.
The 4 Healing Principles
Healing from problems associated with alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
comes from within ourselves, our tribe, and our community. We will find the
support and resources to heal, renew, and rebuild.
2. Our journey is linked to the past. It is with our traditions, cultural values, and
today’s knowledge that we will be able to restore, mend, and strengthen
ourselves and future generations.
3. We will educate our children about the harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco,
and other drugs from the time they are in their mother’s womb until they pass
from this world. The health, success, and well-being of future generations
depend upon the strength of our message.
4. Healing of the individual and tribe go hand in hand. The well-being of the
tribe is inseparable from the well-being of the individual.
1.
Model Drug Dealer Liability Act
The Model Drug Dealer Liability Act (DDLA) provides a means for parents
and others to obtain monetary damages from drug dealers for the injuries caused
by drugs to their families and communities. The Model DDLA has been adopted
by 13 state legislatures throughout the United States.
Under its “market liability” provisions, the DDLA provides for civil liability
for any drug dealer in a community for the injuries to others by drug users of the
same type of drug, during the time period the dealer was dealing in the same
community. Under “market liability,” a plaintiff need not prove that the particular
defendant drug dealer was in the “chain of distribution” to the user who caused
the injuries.
The act is model legislation of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a
bipartisan organization of more than 2,500 legislatures nationwide. For more
details, go to http://www.modelddla.com/. This Web site is dedicated to all drug
babies whose suffering is an American tragedy, to all families who hive lost their
children to illegal drugs, and to all those who have suffered as a result of the
consequences of illegal drugs being distributed by drug dealers in America.
Upcoming Conferences
Portland Convention Center, May 3-4
Youth Violence Prevention, July 9-12
Chaperones Needed!
Youth Wanted
We need tribal youth to be presenters at conferences. Please apply with the
Siletz Tribal Prevention Program if you are interested or know a youth who might
be able to travel to conferences to represent the Siletz Tribe.
The Siletz Tribal youth will teach a workshop that shows other youth and
adults how to make a four directions key chain. They will share the meaning and
symbolism behind the key chain (respect, diversity, honoring our bodies/mind/
spirit by not using alcohol/drugs, respecting the earth/sky, etc.).
If you would like additional information, please call Lisa Brown at
1-800-600-5599 or 541-444-8238, or e-mail lisab@ctsi.nsn.us.
Check Out This web Site
www.zapbac.com
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It’s about using and not using tobacco,
how to avoid it and how to quit.
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