KĪPUKA O KE OLA
KOKO provides cultural, spiritual, medical, and psychological services to all residents of North Hawaiʻi with a special emphasis for the Kānaka Maoli. This mission is its kuleana. It serves communities in Hawaii.
Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
The Administration for Native Americans provides grants and technical assistance that support Native communities’ self-sufficiency, cultural preservation, and locally defined goals. It serves communities across the United States, U.S. territories, and freely associated states and Hawai‘i.
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust supports research, partnerships, public engagement, and advocacy around the world to advance science and address major health challenges. It serves communities outside the United States and its territories.
WestCare Pacific Islands (WPI)
WestCare Pacific Islands provides accessible, high-quality behavioral health and human services to individuals, families, and communities in need. It serves communities across the United States, U.S. territories, and freely associated states, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and communities outside the United States and its territories.
JED Foundation
The JED Foundation strengthens mental health and suicide-prevention systems for teens and young adults in schools and communities across the United States. It serves communities across the United States, U.S. territories, and freely associated states.
West Care Pacific Islands
“WestCare’s first priority is to provide the highest quality services possible and to make them accessible to those in need. We are responsible to our employees, the men and women who work with us throughout the world. We must be good citizens – support good work and charities, and bear our fair share of civic responsibility.”
The Broken Crayons…Still Color Project
The Broken Crayons…Still Color Project (BCSCP) is a prevention program, which aims to limit and reduce depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse. The program is designed to assist African-American women ages 18 and older to become more knowledgeable about mental illness, reduce stigma, understand what constitutes good mental health, root causes of mental illness, and strategies for the treatment and prevention of mental illness. It addresses the Phase 1 priority population strategy: providing insight into mental health topics among African-American women in selected faith-based churches.
Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity
The Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity (TRIBE) Program is a prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent or intervene in the early onset of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) for foster and adjudicated AA male youth. The CDEP does this by increasing resiliency through skills building, identity development, peer support and mentoring, opening the aperture to higher education, and widening the access to mental health services. Utilizing an ecological approach and brain-based learning, the TRIBE CDEP is designed to address Phase 1 priority population strategy of building on community strengths and demonstrably improving the quality of mental health services by providing services that are culturally congruent, sensitive and competent. The program outcome measures will be, decrease the risks for skid row and homelessness, prison, drug addiction, educational failure, and mental illness, including Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), depression, suicide, anxiety, and reactivity. Additionally, the CDEP anticipates increases in adaptability, self-efficacy, and social connectivity.
Experience Hope for Teens
Experience Hope for Teens is a school-based intervention that aims to prevent and reduce trauma-
related behavior problems for African American students by increasing their access to trauma-informed
services, increasing school capacity to respond in a non-punitive, healing-focused and restorative
manner to trauma-related behavior, and decreasing students’ trauma symptoms, such as Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, dissociation, internalizing, externalizing, and complicated
grief reactions. This Community Defined Evidence Program (CDEP) is designed to create culturally-
responsive places of healing in the African American community.
The Villiage Project
he Village Project, Inc.’s Emanyatta Project is a prevention and early intervention program that is intended to prevent and/or reduce symptoms of clinical depression and anxiety in children from kindergarten to 4th grade. The project necessarily involves families of these children for the purposes of support in these efforts as well as to strengthen the resilience and internal strengths of the children. It is through this involvement that the Phase I priority of family psycho-education is achieved. An additional component to strengthen the internal resources of the children is the project’s focus on building pride in cultural and ethnic heritage as a means of achieving higher levels of academic achievement and self-esteem.