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Job Announcements
POSITION: Community Health Representative
SALARY: $U82 per month
DEPARTMENTDIVISION: Health & Human Services
REPORTS TO: Wellness Coordinator
CLOSING DATE: Friday, November 12, 1993
RESPONSIBILITIES: Provides health services and resources for members who request assistance.
Transports patients to medical appointments, monitors patients' health status through home visits, and
promotes patient self-care practices; does related work as required.
EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING: High school graduation or equivalency, and one year experience
working in a care-taking capacity, or any satisfactory combination of experience and training which
demonstrates the knowledge, skill and ability to perform the above described duties.
KNOWLEDGE OF: Basic health care and disease prevention; basic nursing techniques for taking vital
signs; community health resources.
ABILITY TO: Perform general health screenings; make oral presentations; relate to the ill and respond
to their needs; communicate effectively both verbally and in writing; work flexible hours; establish
and maintain an effective working relationship with other employees, health clinic staff, physicians,
patients, and their families.
SKILL IN: Performing basic health screenings; the administration of basic first aid.
NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Possession or ability to obtain a valid Oregon Driver's
License, safedriving record. PossessionofCNAorMedical Assistant Certificate;FirstAidCPRCard.
POSITION: Counselor Technician (On Call)
SALARY: $7.59 hourly
DEPARTMENTDIVISION: Nanitch Sahallie Youth Treatment Center
REPORTS TO: Lead Counselor Technician
CLOSING DATE: Monday, November 1 5, 1 993
RESPONSIBILITIES: Monitors facility security and adolescent clients in an intensive residential
substance abuse program; ensures clients' adherence to treatment plan and schedules; does related
work as required. Works as needed, not to exceed 20 hours per week.
EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING: High School graduation or equivalency plus advanced specialized
courses in psychology, sociology, or alcoholic behavior, and one year of relevant experience working
with adolescents andor chemically dependent individuals; or any satisfactory combination or
experience and training which demonstrates the knowledge, skill and ability to perform the above
described duties.
KNOWLEDGE OF: The principals and practices of substance abuse treatment and prevention;
adolescent behavior, the dynamics of interpersonal relationships; Native American culture and
customs.
ABILITY TO: Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing; deal effectively with adolescents;
maintain client record sfiles; establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships
with families of clients; referents, other social services agencies and other employees; remain calm and
work with individuals in crisis and emergency situations; participate as part of a team in evaluation
and treatment planning.
SKILL IN: The administration of basic first aid.
NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Possession of or ability to obtain within 30 days of hire
CPR and First Aid Certification; possession of valid Oregon Driver's License, safe driving record.
Must be able to work on short notice at odd hours, including weekends.
POSITION: Forestry Aide
SALARY: $7.39 HOURLY
DEPARTMENTDIVISION: Natural Resources
REPORTS TO: Forestry Aide Crew Foreman
CLOSING DATE: Friday, November 19, 1993
RESPONSIBILITIES: Primarily works in silvicultural duties under forest management program.
Performs work in reforestation, site preparation, prescribed burning, fire trailing, and wild fires; does
related work as required.
EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING: High school graduation or equivalency, and one year experience in
forestry activities; or any satisfactory combination of experience and training which demonstrates the
knowledge, skill, and ability to perform the above described duties.
KNOWLEDGE OF: The use and maintenance of forestry and construction equipment; safety practices
and precautions in performing responsibilities.
ABILITY TO: Understand and follow oral and written instructions; work in adverse weather
conditions; perform strenuous physical labor, learn and apply fire control procedures; establish and
maintain an effective working relationship with other employees.
SKILL IN: The safe operation of hand and power tools required to perform duties.
NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Possession or ability to obtain a valid Oregon Driver's
Licence. Be able to obtain CPRFirst Aid Certification.
Send All Applications To:
Barbara Lake
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
9615 Grand Ronde Road
Grand Ronde, Oregon 97347
TRIBAL NEWS BRIEFS...
Cow Creek Doubling Size of Bingo Parlor
CANYONVTLLE, Ore. (AP)-The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians
announced September 28 it is doubling the' size of its thriving southern Oregon bingo
parlor.
The 15,400 square foot addition planned by the Cow Creeks here win expand
seating for bingo, enclose a non-smoking section, and include a coffee shop, additional
video poker machines, a keno area, and a card room.
It is due to be finished next April, the two-year anniversary of the original
opening site along Interstate 5 between Roscburg and Grants Pass.
It will create 100 permanent jobs, said Sue Shaffer, Chairwoman of the Cow
Creek board of directors.
The expansion created some hard feelings locally, because itforced the ouster of
a dozen residents of a trailer park on tribal lands.
While officials refuse to release specifics of the bingo hall's profits, they said it
has been a tremendous benefit to the tribe as well as the local community, bringing in
several million dollars a year.
reprinted from Yakima Nation Review
Indian Child Welfare Association
Receives Grant
The Northwest Indian Child Welfare Association (NWICWA) has received a
three-year,$396,735grantfromuWort
welfare funds for American Indian tribes by educatingtribal officials, informing state and
federal policy makers, and changing current policies, This funding will help tribes
developandoperatecommunirysedservicesfortheircWldjrenan Currently,
tribal communities have limited access to federal and state child welfare funding due to
technical barriers.
Terry Cross, Executive Director of the NWICWA, describes the grant as an
exciting opportunity to identify and bring more funding to tribal communities, "Tribal
governments have been working hard to increase the services to their children and
families, and we are glad to be in a position to help them with this effort."
Policies which affect the funding of Indian children's programs are extremely
complex, so much so that it is often hard to sort out the rules and regulations. As a result
of thisproject,tribal governments wuUhavebetterijnformationab
programs. Public officials willbe more informed about thebarriers which prevent Indian
tribes from solving their own child welfare problems.
"Only in the last few years have most Indian tribes provided services to abused
andMglectedchildrenontheir reservations. Before that time, states and Bureau of Indian
I Affairs provided the services, often with tragic results," Mr. Cross said.
In 1978 the Indian Child Welfare Act enabled tribes to reassert their right to
protect their own children. However, federal programs whi :h fund child welfare services
at the state and county level were never amended to make funds available directly to tribes.
"Access can be developed," said Cross, "and that is what the project is about"
Despite very little access to funding, existing tribal child welfare programs show
great promise. Where resources allow tribes reportedly are providing effective services
for lower cost than either state or federal agencies.
Museum at Warm Springs Receives Publicity
The museum which opened last March at the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs continues to pull its share of national publicity. This time, it's in the October issue
of Architectural Digesttic international magazine of fine interior designthat has a
three and one half page article with six pictures on what the magazine calls, "A Tribute
to the Native American Spirit in Oregon."
The story is a fitting tribute to the people of the Warm Springs reservation. The
Portland architectural firm of Stastny & Burke who took two years to design the museum,
didn't want to act like know-it-all architects, so they set up shop on the reservation and
listened to the people all day from eight o'clock in the morning, to nine o'clock at night
about what they wanted the museum to be.
"One crucial thing wegotfromthose sessions was an understanding ofthe great
importance placed on using authentic materials, materials that reflected their values and
their close ties to the land," the architects told Digest.
As a direct consequence, many ofthe materials Stastny and his partner, Brian
Burke, specified for construction came from the Warm Springs reservation itself
Here is how writer Jon Krakauer describes the reservation: "Apristine, 644,000
acre tract of wilderness that sprawls east from the glaciated summits of the Cascade
Range, down the mountain' densely wooded slopes and into the lonely, sage-dappled flats
of the high desert, where the eastern border is the Deschutes River."
The museum is located on Highway 26, two hours southeast of Portland. It is
open daily.