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EXTERNAL OPENINGS INTERNAL OPENINGS
Elder Recreation Background Investigator
Program Assistant Gaming Commission
Education Grade: 9
Grade: 5 Closing date: March 9
Closing date: March 16
Business Office Assistant
Recreation Coordinator GRHWC - Business Office
Education Grade: 5
Grade: 8 Closing date: March 1 6
Closing date: March 22
College Intern
Program Accountant Part-time (3 positions)
Finance Youth Education
Grade: 15 Grade: 3
Open until filled Closing date: March 1 6
Physician
Medical Clinic Internal applicants are
Grade: 23 1 . Current Regular Employee, past
Open until filled their six-month Introductory
period, receiving at leasta'meets
Caregiver (on-call) expectations" on most recent
Adult Foster Care performance evaluation and not
Grade: 5 under disciplinary action or per
Open until filled formance improvement within
the previous six months,
Dentist 2. Grand Ronde Tribal members
Dental Clinic 3 spoUseofaGrandRondeTribal
Grade:20 member or
Open until filled 4 Rarent or ,ega guardian of
Grand Ronde Tribal member
INTERNALEXTERNAL children
Teen Pregnancy Internal recruitment
Prevention Coordinator For those individuals meeting
Social Services minimum qualifications an inter
Grade: 8 view will be given in the following
Closing date: March 20 ranking order:
1 . Grand Ronde Tribal members
Executive Director a) Qualified Grand Ronde Tribal
Tribal Housing members who showthey meet
Grade: 17 the minimum qualifications of
Closing date: March 23 the position during the course
of the interview process will
Drug-Free Workplace Policy be given first consideration
H Effective January 1, 2004, all for hire and the recruitment
employees are subject to random process will end
drug andor alcohol testing. 2-Tribal member spouses, parents
All pre-employment offers. andor legal guardians of Grand
DWhen there is reasonable Ronde Tribal member children
suspicion. 3. Current regular employees
Post accident.
For a detailed job description, please contact the Tribe's job
line at 503-879-2257 or 1 -877 TRIBEGR.
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Domestic Violence team
visits Grand Ronde
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
The Oregon Department of Jus
tice, recognizing domestic violence
and sexual assault as areas where
government partnerships with
Native peoples have fallen short,
is embarking on a Native listen
ing tour to find out more about the
Native experience in these crime
areas, emphasizing that department-funded
programs are avail
able in Indian Country.
They also will make recommen
dations to department leadership
as necessary to make the programs
work.
"To make program improvements,-
to allocate funding more
effectively and to improve .two-way
communication between program
providers and victims," is how
Diana Fleming summarized the
Justice Department's effort on
Wednesday, Feb. 15, in the Tribal
Community Center.
Fleming is grants coordinator for
the Justice Department's program
that is implementing the 1994 Vio
lence Against Women Act.
Karen Heywood, the depart
ment's Victim Response Section
manager, said that the last assess
ment of how effective the programs
are statewide occurred 10 years ago
in a department-funded Portland .
State University study. A new as
sessment is now being conducted
with outreach to Oregon's Tribal
nations,
"People just don't know about our
programs," Heywood said.
And the problem flows both ways.
People don't know about the pro
grams available and the Justice
Department has traditionally been
unable to obtain information about
victims from Oregon's nine Tribes,
in part because of how difficult
it has been to locate and contact
Tribal individuals.
"Since the current plan to stop
violence against women includes
only national statistics, we are
trying to identify the funding and
the services that (are now in the
local) Tribal communities," said
Fleming.
"Gathering Tribal data will be
helpful to us, however, we are too
early in our collaborative relation
ship with Oregon Tribal nations to
address a statewide approach to
gathering statistics," said Desiree
Allen-Cruz (Umatilla), who has
worked in domestic violencesexual
abuse programs for 15 years and,
since 2002, has worked in them at
the Umatilla Indian Reservation in
eastern Oregon.
"It's all about understanding
needs from all perspectives," said
Fleming, "and we are focused on
hearing directly from all nine Or
egon Tribal nations on the domestic
violence and sexual assault service
provision in their county service
areas."
Even without knowing what the
full need is, Heywood said that the
Justice Department "is not very
close to meeting it."
A 2006 study said that involved
service agencies would need $16
million to meet the crises out
there.
"We provide half of that (through
grant programs)," Heywood said.
Justice Department programs
include compensation for crime
victims, post-conviction advocacy,
sexual assault victims' emergency
fund and one that enables victims
to shield their addresses and other
personal identification information,
called the Address Confidentiality
Program.
Justice also has resources for
dealing with child abuse, domestic
violence, driving under the influ
ence, elder abuse; kidnapping and
trafficking, rape and sexual as
sault, stalking, restitution, city and
county victim assistance programs,
and finding legal help. "
Important for Tribal staffers, Jus
tice's professional services include
reports and publications that de
scribe common outcome measures,
training opportunities and a victim
assistance tool kit.
The Grand Ronde visit also gave
the Justice Department informa
tion they were looking for about
the problem at the Grand Ronde
Tribe.
"We got a little bit," said Hey
wood. "(The Tribe) does not know
anything about our compensation
program. That's concerning. So,
that's a potential training that we
would want to offer."
Responding to questions about
Internet crimes against children,
Heywood said, "We could connect
with our partner DO J Division that
houses the Internet Crimes Against
Children Unit to speak about social
networking safety."
The group also learned that
Grand Ronde has accepted depart
ment grants and has taken respon
sibility for indirect costs, such as
administration, she said, adding
that it is a plus for the Justice De
partment. "That actually opens the Tribe up
to more of our funding," Heywood
said.
The Tribe also has a good rela
tionship with Sable House, located
in Dallas, the one nonprofit dealing
with domestic violence and sexual
assault in the Tribe's immediate
service area. However, Heywood
said that the Tribe still could es
tablish similar partnerships with
domestic violence and sexual as
sault agencies in a wider services
area.
Dave Fullerton, manager of the
Tribe's Social Services Depart
ment, encouraged Tribal members
with any of these issues to contact
the Social Services Department,
Sable House or the Mid-Valley 211
number that specializes in connect
ing individuals with such services
as counseling and support, health
care, energy assistance, employ
ment resources, and domestic
violence and sexual abuse support
services.
Some 15 Grand Ronde Tribal
department heads and staffers at
tended the meeting. B