Circles of Care Evaluation Technical Assistance Center
The Circles of Care Initiative is a program that is funded by the Federal Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS). This program supports American Indian and Alaska Native communities who are developing initial health service programs for children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances (SEBD). The Circles of Care Evaluation Technical Assistance Center (CoCETAC) provides evaluation technical assistance to the American Indian and Alaska Native communities who are funded through the Circles of Care Initiative. To learn more about Circles of Care and CoCETAC, please click here.
CIRCLES OF CARE NEWS
Congratulations to the Circles of Care IV Grantees!
American Indian Center Circle of Care. American Indian Center of Chicago, Chicago.
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Circles of Care. Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Fort Thompson, S.D.
Pueblo of San Felipe Children's Mental Health Systems of Care Development Project. San Felipe Pueblo, N.M.
Yav pa anav (The medicine is good). Karuk Tribe, Happy Camp, Calif.
Standing Rock Circles of Care Grant. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, N.D.
Nebraska Urban Indian Centers System of Care Program. Indian Center, Inc., Lincoln, NE.
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. Mashantucket, CT.
American Indian Health and Family Services: Gda'shkitoomi (We are able). D etroit, MI
CIRCLES OF CARE PUBLICATIONS
Read the Final Report for HEALTHY SPIRIT CONFERENCE: SUCCESSFUL MODELS TO EMBRACE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. Park City, UT. May 11-13. 2005 by Susan Talley, Ph.D. A meeting drawing on the expertise of the 2001-2004 cohort of Circles of Care grantees, by clicking here.
Read the poster, Principles for Participatory Research with American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Lessons from the Circles of Care Initiative by Douglas K. Novins, Brenda Freeman, Pamela Jumper Thurman, Ethleen Iron Cloud-Two Dogs, James Allen, Pamela L. LeMaster, & Pamela B. Deters. This poster was presented at the 2006 Conference Indigenous Suicide Prevention Research and Programs in Canada and the United States: Setting a Collaborative Agenda, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 7-9, 2006. Conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Indian Health Service, Health Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, by clicking here.
Read about the Circles of evaluation effort in a Special Issue of American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research. You can download this issue for free by clicking here.
For more information about
the Circles of Care Evaluation Technical Assistance Center contact:
Candace Fleming, PhD.
Phone: (303) 724-1484 Fax: (303) 724-1461
Email: candace.fleming@ucdenver.edu
