Ethan Nebelkopf, Ph.D., is director of the Family & Child Guidance Clinic of the Native American Health Center in Oakland and San Francisco. He has worked for community-based non-profit organizations for thirty years and is a licensed family therapist in California. Mary Phillips (Omaha/Laguna, Pueblo) has experience in program coordination, managed information systems development, evaluation, and community assessment for the Native American community and works for First Nations Development Institute. She has participated in several publications on mental health and Native Americans and received her Bachelors degree at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

This collection should be useful to medical and mental health professionals and the Native health community.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Speaking in Red: Morning Star Rising in Native American CommunitiesPart 1: Healing Substance AbuseChapter 2: The Historical Trauma Response among Natives and Its Relationship to Substance Abuse: A Lakota IllustrationChapter 3: Reducing Substance Abuse in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: The Healthy Nations InitiativeChapter 4: Substance Abuse Treatment at Friendship House: Transformation and CulturePart 2: Innovations in Mental HealthChapter 5: Urban Trails: Holistic System of Care for Native Americans in the San Francisco Bay AreaChapter 6: Joining and Sustaining Yup'ik and Cup'ik Healing with Behavioral Health TreatmentChapter 7: Mandan and Hidatsa Families and Children: Surviving Historical AssaultPart 3: Building Healthy CommunitiesChapter 8: Community Readiness: The Journey to Community HealingChapter 9: Mobilizing Communities to Reduce Substance Abuse in Indian CountryChapter 10: A Data Reconnaissance for Native AmericansPart 4: Traditional Ceremonies and HealingChapter 11: Perspectives on Traditional Health PracticesChapter 12: Healing the Kashaya WayChapter 13: Peacemaking Ceremonies for Substance Abuse TreatmentPart 5: Native Americans and HIV/AIDSChapter 14: The Morning God Comes Dancing: Culturally-Competent Mental Health and HIV ServicesChapter 15: HIV/AIDS Care Programs for American Indians and Alaska NativesChapter 16: American Indians and HIV/AIDSPart 6: Working with Special PopulationsChapter 17: Aiming to Balance: Native Women Healing in an Urban Behavioral Health Care ClinicChapter 18: Substance Dependency Among Homeless American Indians in Oakland and TucsonChapter 19: American Indian Involvement in the Criminal Justice SystemChapter 20: American Indian Public Charter School: Why it is a Model School for Students?IndexAbout the Authors

Ethan Nebelkopf, Ph.D., is director of the Family & Child Guidance Clinic of the Native American Health Center in Oakland and San Francisco. He has worked for community-based non-profit organizations for thirty years and is a licensed family therapist in California. Mary Phillips (Omaha/Laguna, Pueblo) has experience in program coordination, managed information systems development, evaluation, and community assessment for the Native American community and works for First Nations Development Institute. She has participated in several publications on mental health and Native Americans and received her Bachelors degree at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

This collection should be useful to medical and mental health professionals and the Native health community.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Speaking in Red: Morning Star Rising in Native American CommunitiesPart 1: Healing Substance AbuseChapter 2: The Historical Trauma Response among Natives and Its Relationship to Substance Abuse: A Lakota IllustrationChapter 3: Reducing Substance Abuse in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: The Healthy Nations InitiativeChapter 4: Substance Abuse Treatment at Friendship House: Transformation and CulturePart 2: Innovations in Mental HealthChapter 5: Urban Trails: Holistic System of Care for Native Americans in the San Francisco Bay AreaChapter 6: Joining and Sustaining Yup'ik and Cup'ik Healing with Behavioral Health TreatmentChapter 7: Mandan and Hidatsa Families and Children: Surviving Historical AssaultPart 3: Building Healthy CommunitiesChapter 8: Community Readiness: The Journey to Community HealingChapter 9: Mobilizing Communities to Reduce Substance Abuse in Indian CountryChapter 10: A Data Reconnaissance for Native AmericansPart 4: Traditional Ceremonies and HealingChapter 11: Perspectives on Traditional Health PracticesChapter 12: Healing the Kashaya WayChapter 13: Peacemaking Ceremonies for Substance Abuse TreatmentPart 5: Native Americans and HIV/AIDSChapter 14: The Morning God Comes Dancing: Culturally-Competent Mental Health and HIV ServicesChapter 15: HIV/AIDS Care Programs for American Indians and Alaska NativesChapter 16: American Indians and HIV/AIDSPart 6: Working with Special PopulationsChapter 17: Aiming to Balance: Native Women Healing in an Urban Behavioral Health Care ClinicChapter 18: Substance Dependency Among Homeless American Indians in Oakland and TucsonChapter 19: American Indian Involvement in the Criminal Justice SystemChapter 20: American Indian Public Charter School: Why it is a Model School for Students?IndexAbout the Authors

Ethan Nebelkopf, Ph.D., is director of the Family & Child Guidance Clinic of the Native American Health Center in Oakland and San Francisco. He has worked for community-based non-profit organizations for thirty years and is a licensed family therapist in California. Mary Phillips (Omaha/Laguna, Pueblo) has experience in program coordination, managed information systems development, evaluation, and community assessment for the Native American community and works for First Nations Development Institute. She has participated in several publications on mental health and Native Americans and received her Bachelors degree at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

This collection should be useful to medical and mental health professionals and the Native health community.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Speaking in Red: Morning Star Rising in Native American CommunitiesPart 1: Healing Substance AbuseChapter 2: The Historical Trauma Response among Natives and Its Relationship to Substance Abuse: A Lakota IllustrationChapter 3: Reducing Substance Abuse in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: The Healthy Nations InitiativeChapter 4: Substance Abuse Treatment at Friendship House: Transformation and CulturePart 2: Innovations in Mental HealthChapter 5: Urban Trails: Holistic System of Care for Native Americans in the San Francisco Bay AreaChapter 6: Joining and Sustaining Yup'ik and Cup'ik Healing with Behavioral Health TreatmentChapter 7: Mandan and Hidatsa Families and Children: Surviving Historical AssaultPart 3: Building Healthy CommunitiesChapter 8: Community Readiness: The Journey to Community HealingChapter 9: Mobilizing Communities to Reduce Substance Abuse in Indian CountryChapter 10: A Data Reconnaissance for Native AmericansPart 4: Traditional Ceremonies and HealingChapter 11: Perspectives on Traditional Health PracticesChapter 12: Healing the Kashaya WayChapter 13: Peacemaking Ceremonies for Substance Abuse TreatmentPart 5: Native Americans and HIV/AIDSChapter 14: The Morning God Comes Dancing: Culturally-Competent Mental Health and HIV ServicesChapter 15: HIV/AIDS Care Programs for American Indians and Alaska NativesChapter 16: American Indians and HIV/AIDSPart 6: Working with Special PopulationsChapter 17: Aiming to Balance: Native Women Healing in an Urban Behavioral Health Care ClinicChapter 18: Substance Dependency Among Homeless American Indians in Oakland and TucsonChapter 19: American Indian Involvement in the Criminal Justice SystemChapter 20: American Indian Public Charter School: Why it is a Model School for Students?IndexAbout the Authors