Roots of Resilience: Empowering Our Most Vulnerable Youth

• NCJ Number: 309720
• Author(s): Tribal Youth Resource Center
• Date Published: October 2024
• Length: 23 pages
• Agencies: OJJDP-Sponsored
• Publication Type: Newsletter

Annotation

This issue of the Tribal Youth Resource Center Newsletter, focuses on the theme Roots of Resilience: Empowering Our Most Vulnerable Youth.

Abstract

This issue of the Tribal Youth Resource Center Newsletter focuses on the theme Roots of Resilience: Empowering Our Most Vulnerable Youth. The issue includes an update and welcome from the Tribal Youth Resource Center; announcements and resources and an invitation from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP); an article about sexual and gender identity from the tribal youth perspective; an article about LGBTQIA2S care as trauma-informed care from the National Native Children’s Trauma Center; a photo collage about community planning; a piece about imagining a “new day” for native youth who are justice-involved or -impacted; mindful moments on guiding justice-involved youth; an article about protecting unsheltered and runaway native youth; highlights from the 2024 OJJDP Tribal Youth Program Midwest Regional, and a photo collage from the 2024 OJJDP Tribal Youth Program Regional.