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TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS
Welcome to the Prevention
Dimension
Shu’-yPde-ghayt-nin’sh
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.
Contract Health Services News
Tribal Youth Attend Camp OSSOM
The CHS Department is pleased to be fully staffed. We welcome new
employees Ronda Ramsey, CHS tech II; Danise Barker, CHS tech II; and Dolores
On Oct. 4-6, 2001, our team “Jus Na Chu’s” (hummingbirds) attended Camp
OSSOM at the McKenzie River Conference Center. Youth attending included
Richard Lafferty, Max Hill, Lynetta Benedict, Shantel Hostler, and Liana Keizer,
along with advisors Lisa Brown and Natasha Kavanaugh.
This fall, despite multiple barriers, Oregon Student Safety on the Move (OSSOM)
continued to offer quality leadership training to youth and adults through Camp
OSSOM, formerly known as the Oregon Teen Leadership in Prevention Institute.
OSSOM, a program of Oregon State University’s College of Health and Human
Performance, sustained its positive youth development program through a variety
of miraculous supports, such as devoted volunteers and funding from the Emily
Knudson Family Policy Program.
Seizing a unique transitional moment, Director Debbie Slover solicited
restructuring ideas from students and advisors. Excited by the opportunity, campers
went the extra mile to cooperate and share. OSSOM staff members are confident
that with change will come a more solid funding base. The end of October, however,
will tell the story.
Camp OSSOM is extremely important to developing assets in youth. Its
3.5-day experience is unique because it simulates what it’s designed to create -
a healthy community.
Workshops reflect pertinent topics related to creating a healthy community
and are taught in a variety of ways. Given the events of Sept. 11, a highlight for
those who attended a diversity workshop came as an instructor shared his personal
story of how he overcame his parents’ prejudice.
In general, Camp OSSOM focuses on how leadership styles and gender
processes contribute to a healthy community. During each activity, individuals
use both action and process to work through individual and group barriers, and
discuss the dynamics of different leadership styles.
In addition to honoring gender and leadership differences, Camp OSSOM
creates an environment where individuals can experience two prevention tools:
The 7 Jewels of Prevention and the Circle of Prevention.
Adventure Group (students and staff - advisors and camp director) activities
are designed to demonstrate the need for the 7 Jewels, which include respect,
cooperation, teamwork, trust, recognition, responsibility, and communication.
The Actions Teams (students, advisors, and staff) create a community
prevention plan using a planning strategy of the Circle of Prevention, which includes
information dissemination, prevention education, alternatives, community-based
processes, environmental or social policy, and problem ID and referral.
For information about Camp OSSOM or the Rex Putnam and Sandy OSSOM
chapters, contact Sylvia Milne, YST enhancement coordinator, at 503-546-6503.
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November 2001
Ronda Ramsey, Dolores Roles, and Danise Barker
Roles, CHS tech II. They are your authorizing officials for CHS.
The alphabet is split three ways. Ronda takes care of patients with last
names starting with A-I, Dolores has J-Q, and Danise has R-Z. Please contact
them directly at 541 -444-1236 or 1 -800-628-5720 (closed Tuesday afternoons)
to ensure prompt attention for authorization.
Pharmacy Benefits Change: Beginning Jan. 1,2002, pharmacy benefits
will be limited to $500 when purchasing at a retail pharmacy and an unlimited
dollar amount when mailing in your prescriptions.
Please call if you need help with the mail-in pharmacy distribution. Joella
Strong will be happy to assist you with any questions. If you have questions
about a prescription that already has been mailed in, please call Pequot’s number
on the back of your card.
Youth from Siletz combine with those from Nestucca to
form an Actions Team at Camp OSSOM.