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Aboutfor Unified
Solutions Tribal Community
Development Group Building capacity through education,
training and resource support. Unified Solutions is
dedicated to partnering with American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) communities
to end violent crime, heal from the effects of trauma, and promote resilience.
We recognize the problem of violence in our communities and at home can be
directly linked to institutional practices of dominance and privilege.
Therefore, we invite individuals and agencies to examine and transform these
practices and dismantle internalized oppression at all levels. Our Methods: (1) We provide training
and resources to build confident and responsive grassroots and workplace
leadership; (2) We work in
partnership with diverse community sectors, actively seek the participation and
involvement of resident community members in our work, and recognize equitable,
shared power among all stakeholders involved in a project; (3) We facilitate
learning environments and promote linkages between multi-cultural,
multi-disciplinary, and multi-faith communities to develop a best practices
network of “unified solutions” to sustain peace in our world; (4) We tailor our
services and products to uphold the unique cultural heritage and spiritual
vitality of those we serve. VALUES STATEMENT for Unified
Solutions Tribal Community
Development Group Building capacity through education,
training and resource support. At Unified Solutions, we strive for our operations and services to
be: (1) Inclusive: All stakeholders affected by a project are invited
to the conversation. We recognize the equality and validity of all
perspectives. Each voice that chooses to be heard is heard. (2) Generative: We deliver product that is relevant and necessary
to catalyze community action. Our work reflects our commitment to the next
seven generations of the Earth’s children. (3) Receptive: We listen to each other, and to the guidance we get
from our own experience. We listen to what our elders say, and to what our
children say. (4) Responsive: We allow ourselves to be changed by new
information. We change our direction and practice when the needs of the
community change. (5) Cooperative: Whenever possible, we share resources and generate
alliances. We know that we are one human family, sharing planet Earth. We seek
to pool our strengths and celebrate each other. PURPOSE STATEMENT for Unified
Solutions Tribal Community
Development Group Building capacity through education,
training and resource support Unified Solutions is a national, federally-recognized 501(c)3
tax-exempt educational organization serving the American Indian/Alaska Native
community and its allies. We exist in
order to bring our communities together and co-create a world of physical, emotional,
social, psychological and spiritual wellness for all. We believe a healthy community is a resilient community - a
community that is willing to learn, grow and change in response to its members
needs. We invite communities to have deep dialogue inclusive of all
constituents and listen respectfully to the stories that are told. We invite community leaders to model
cooperative and collaborative interaction, encourage innovation and facilitate
resource sharing to deliver products and services responsive to the needs of
its membership. Our role is to help facilitate community conversations and
generate grassroots community leadership. We provide the resources, education,
and technical support necessary to empower communities to achieve their goals for
social improvement. LOGO DESIGN for Unified
Solutions Tribal Community
Development Group Building capacity through education,
training and resource support
The Unified Solutions logo was formed from a
collaborative process with the community members we serve. We have been blessed by those who support the
vision of Unified Solutions and have offered their talents to express this
vision in visual art. Special thanks to
Victor Robles, Yaqui artist, and Desiree Trowbridge, The image depicts a The image tells a story and sends a message: “The fate of our world depends upon our
ability to come together and create together – all people, young and old, of
all colors, from all directions. There is only one family among the people, and
that is the Human Family. When we commit
our hands together in action, creating a new way with unified solutions, the
power of our Light shines from within the SERVICES PROVIDED by Unified
Solutions Tribal Community
Development Group Building capacity through education,
training and resource support Skills Training On-site training
workshops, regional seminars, annual conferences, teleclasses. Needs Assessment Comprehensive assessments
designed and/or administered. In-person, telephone, or written interviews
depending on the needs of community or workplace. Grassroots leadership
courses and program management skills. Facilitating community conversations and
coordinated agency responses. Mentoring programs. Strategic Planning Developing short- and
long-term goals, objectives, and a plan of action for tribal victim assistance
programs and the community stakeholders. Sustainability Development Budgeting for program
development, grant-writing workshops, maximizing human, fiscal, and community
resources. Program Evaluation Data collection and
interpretation, establishing feedback loops throughout your organization. See
Training Descriptions for more. Personalized Coaching & Consulting One-to-one personal contact for technical support and greater effectiveness. Techniques for improved group dynamics in the workplace. Support for program managers. SUMMARY
OVERVIEW for the COUNSELING for CRIME
VICTIMS in INDIAN COUNTRY by FAITH BASED
ORGANIZATIONS grant program Program
Description:
Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian Country is a discretionary grant
program from the Dept of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, designed to link
faith-based organizations, spiritual leaders, and traditional healers with
victim service programs in AI/AN communities to provide counseling services for
crime victims. The goal of this initiative is to encourage collaboration
between victim service programs, traditional healers and other faith-based
clergy, as well as to recognize traditional healing services as a resource for
AI/AN crime victims. Grantee Programs: Eight
tribal programs are the selected recipients of this grant award for fiscal year
2005. They are: Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma; Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes; Greater Minneapolis Delivery of T&TA: Unified
Solutions Tribal Community Development Group, Inc. (Unified Solutions) has been
awarded a contract from the Dept of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, to
provide free training and technical support to tribal grantee programs of the
Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian Country grant. For this project,
Unified Solutions has teamed up with the National Indian Women’s Goal of T&TA: (1) Expand the capacity of tribal victim
assistance programs to collaborate with traditional healers and other
faith-based groups. (2) Assist tribal victim assistance programs to effectively
and consistently integrate traditional healing and other faith-based counseling
options in their service delivery to tribal crime victims. Deliverables of T&TA: -
Needs assessment for each tribal grantee program -
Monthly teleclasses -
On-Site Training & Program Support -
Website with Resource Library & Training
Calendar -
Educational Publications & Newsletters -
Annual Resource Forum -
Budget & Sustainability Assistance -
Availability for 1:1 TA assistance by phone, fax,
email T&TA
DELIVERABLES Unified Solutions and its Project Partners are proud to deliver
products that support the growth of tribal crime victim assistance programs. T&TA Resource
Library T&TA Website Educational
Publications & Newsletters Teleclasses Annual Skills
Conference & Resource Forum Budget Assistance
& Sustainability Support On-Site Training
& Program Support 1:1 TA by phone,
fax, email Sponsored
by the US Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, we are able to
offer our products and services free of charge to recipients of the
Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian Country
grant programs. Contact us toll-free
T&TA Resource
Library Unified Solutions maintains an in-house and on-line
resource library from its main office in Grantees from the
Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian Country
grant programs may contact the
Unified Solutions Research & Publications Specialists with their research
needs. Materials can be sent to you by
email, fax or mail. Resources can be found in the following categories: AMERICAN INDIANS BOUNDARIES (BOU) CHILD ABUSE (CA) CHILD RESOURCES (CRes) COMPASSION FATIGUE/VICARIOUS TRAUMA/HEALING (CF) CRIME VICTIMS’ COMPENSATION (CVcomp) CURRICULUM/TRAINING (CU) DATING VIOLENCE (DaV) DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (DV) ELDER/DISABLED ABUSE (EA) EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EI) GRANT WRITING (GW) FAITH-BASED ISSUES (FB) HISTORICAL TRAUMA (HT) JUVENILE JUSTICE (JJ) LAW ENFORCEMENT (LE) LEADERSHIP (LD) MAGAZINES (Mag) MISCELLANEOUS (MI) MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES (MI Res) MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING (MC) NATIONAL PROTOCOL FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT NEITHER NUTRITION PROGRAMMATIC/POLICY DEVELOPMENT/MANAGEMENT (PM) RESOURCES (Res) REPORTS (Rep) SOCIAL STALKING (STA) SUBSTANCE ABUSE (SubA) VIDEO/AUDIO MATERIALS (VA) YOUTH/GANGS/SUBSTANCE ABUSE/VIOLENCE (YV) There are more than 550 materials
on file in the Unified Solutions Resource Library and the library is growing
every day. Please visit the website at http://generatingsolutions.org/tva/resources.php
or call our researchers toll-free
at 1-877-438-4400 to access information. T&TA Tribal
Community Website Featuring an online
training calendar and online
training request form, this website makes it easy to identify the resources
necessary to strengthen program delivery skills. The Resource Website is maintained for
Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian Country grantees
and features information relevant to Tribal Victim Service providers, tribal
law enforcement, and tribal program managers.
At this site, you will find contact information for
Federal Victim Witness Specialists (FBI and USAO), along with State VOCA and
Victim Compensation administrators. You
can access other Tribal Victim Assistance programs and programs that deliver
Counseling for Crime Victims in Indian Country by Faith Based
Organizations. You will also find the
Resource Library, and Unified Solutions newsletters, workbooks, and training
manuals. This website also features
links to OVC and TTAC, and delivers information about allowable costs for your
grant program. You will find help for
filing program and financial reports to the Comptroller. Educational
Publications & Newsletters In order to deliver the most current, accurate, and
helpful information to Tribal Victim Service providers, Unified Solutions is
continuously researching and developing
original training publications. As
partners committed to the success of each community, we offer a wide range of
educational materials at both the administrative and direct-service level. Our
current titles include:
Unified Solutions publishes a bimonthly T&TA Newsletter to extend
educational training, support, and resources to Tribal Victims’ Services
providers. Regular features of the
newsletter include:
The newsletter is provided free of charge to
Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian Country
programs and is also available on our website at www.generatingsolutions.org. Additional hard copy newsletters may be
requested by calling us toll free at 1-877-438-4400. Teleclasses Unified Solutions delivers teleclasses on topics of
interest to tribal advocates, program managers, law enforcement officers, and
faith-based providers. Classes are
conducted on a toll free teleconference line available exclusively for
Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian Country
grantees. Unified Solutions has developed an original 16-week
teleclass series, Leadership Skills for Program
Managers in Indian Country, designed to provide participants with
culturally-relevant tools and skills to achieve the goals of their Tribal
Victim Service program in a more effective manner. The class is facilitated by our trainers, and
participants are encouraged to share resources with each other in an effort to
build a best-practices network. Each
class also has a workbook portion, with exercises and notes to help
participants remember and apply what they have learned. The
workbook can be downloaded from our website or faxed to participants. A series of monthly teleclasses will be provided for
Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian Country
grantees. Each teleclass will
be a focused, concise training determined directly by the needs of the
grantees. These monthly
classes will provide a forum for identifying emerging trends, and to create a
network of best practices relevant to faith-based service providers in Indian
Country. Annual Skills
Conference & Resource Forum Under the sponsorship of the Office for Victims of Crime,
US Department of Justice, we are proud to host an annual Tribal Victim
Assistance Skills Conference. Each
conference features expert faculty and guest speakers, interactive skills-based
workshops for administrative and service-delivery tracks, opportunities for
networking with other Tribal Victim Service programs, and cultural experiences
that allow us to share our rich heritage.
This year we are pleased to invite grantees to our third
annual conference, which will focus on skills for law enforcement personnel and
advocates. This spring, grantees will have the opportunity
to participate in a Resource Forum featuring best practices in collaborations
with traditional healers and other faith organizations. This event is sponsored by OVC and hosted by
Unified Solutions and project partners. Budget Assistance
& Sustainability Support Unified Solutions recognizes a critical factor to
sustainability for Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian Country
programs is successful budgetary and program
management. We provide services and resources to assist Tribal Victim Service
providers with both budget reporting and sustainability efforts in order to
promote successful management, continued growth, and program sufficiency. Technical assistance we offer includes:
On-Site Training
& Program Support Unified Solutions trainers, project partners and
consultants understand that the best type of training is one that is tailored
to each tribal community. We will visit
each community at least once during the grant cycle to deliver training and
program support. We work with program
managers to identify the strengths and needs of their programs, and assist in
the writing of program policies, procedures, and definitions of terms. We can help locate training curriculum from
other sources, and we also prepare our own training curriculum in each of the
following areas: TRAINING TOPICS
include: Advocacy Skills Reviewing the needs of tribal
member victims of crime and the dynamics of abuse/trauma for all areas of
violent crime, including: domestic abuse, child abuse, sexual assault,
stalking, strangulation, dating violence, and more. Learn specific skills for on-scene crisis response,
short and long-term advocacy; navigating through the criminal justice
system. Criminal Justice
Investigations & Forensic Interviewing For law
enforcement and other criminal justice personnel, learn techniques of evidence
collection, report writing, and investigation for domestic violence, sexual
assault, child abuse, stalking, strangulation, dating violence, and other
violent crime. Learn techniques for
successful interviews of child and adult victims of crime. The Impact of
Historical Trauma Reviewing
the dynamics of internalized oppression and intergenerational trauma,
understanding their effects in present-day crime response, and learning to
identify the ways these processes can interfere with healing and recovery. These skills will assist advocates and
counselors in appropriately addressing the effects of internalized oppression
and intergenerational trauma. Cultural Proficiency
and Communication For
advocates, law enforcement and clergy, this training will review the six stages
of cultural proficiency and delineate various communication styles and
behaviors. Participants will learn those
specific behaviors that have been shown to help and hinder effective
relationship building with victims of crime from the AI/AN community. Community
Collaboration and Networking Historically
AI/AN groups collaborated in a highly structured way for such areas as trade,
security and societal preservation.
Today collaborations and networking are the key to successful outcomes
for social change and buy-in of the entire community. This training/technical assistance will
provide methods of collaborating with the faith based organization including
traditional healers and how to measure the success of a collaborative effort
and capacity building. Needs Assessments
and Community Outreach This
section will provide an overview of various methods of collecting information
about the needs of communities such as appreciative inquiry, planning and focus
groups and community mapping. The
training will also address using the needs assessment to identify opportunities
in each community. Outreach strategies
will be reviewed with particular emphasis on approaches that would be effective
in tribal or reservation settings. Data collection and
Outcomes Assessment Improve
your data collection methods by learning how to assess your data needs and how
to develop a schematic flow chart for data inputting. Get answers to questions such as “When should
you collect data? How can you smooth the wrinkles in the data collection
process? How should you collect data?”
This training will also address the various methodologies of Outcome
Assessments. Grant Writing &
other Sustainability Practices Learn the
elements of effective grant writing, learn where to look for private and public
grants, learn program and management practices that offer the greatest chances
for long-term financial support. 1:1 TA by phone,
fax or email Unified Solutions providers are available Monday-Friday,
Grantee Advisory
Board The Grantee Advisory Board is made up of members of the
tribal grantee community. The purpose of the Advisory Board is to offer
feedback and suggestions to improve T&TA Services. An Advisory Board member
is expected to meet a minimum of once per year with the T&TA provider, read
draft training materials and other products from the T&TA provider, and
submit timely feedback surveys with concrete suggestions for improvement of
materials. The Advisory Board members may also be called upon to participate in
tele-conferences to review products and submit feedback. There is a limit of 15 tribal grantee members on the
Advisory Board, and new Advisory Board members are selected each year. If you
would like to participate in the Advisory Board, please contact Gina Gavaris at
Gina@GeneratingSolutions.org. Warren
Bailey, Chief of Tribal Police Sara
Brubaker, Tribal Prosecutor Grand
Traverse Band of Chippewa
Indians Chippewa
Indians warren.bailey@gtbindians.com sara.brubaker@gtbindians.com Alejandro
Benally, Chief of Police Joyce
Tovar, Program Manager Donn White,
Criminal Investigator Blanche
Criss, TVA Counselor North Slope
Police Department Barrow, AK Arctic
Women in Crisis donn.white@north-slope.org Barrow,
AK Jim
Summers, Chief of Police Coleen
Clark, Domestic Violence Coordinator Poplar, MT j.summers510@nemontel.net c_raeclark@yahoo.com Vanessa
Lunderman, Police Officer Kim
Edwards, Advocate Choctaw, MS Choctaw,
MS Rodney
Soap, Police Sergeant Jesusita (Sue) Gaytan,
Advocate United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians jgaytan@unitedkeetoowahband.org Michael
Kaiser, Stalking src@ncvc.org diannebarkerharrold@yahoo.com Veronica
S.M. Cook Jesucita
Hernandez, Program Manager Pascua
Yaqui Violence Prevention Program Walking
in Balance – Pascua Yaqui Tribe Bio Sketches Unified Solutions Staff Mary Brown Mary is Tlingit of the Raven
Dog Salmon Clan, recently relocated to Natalia Calhoun Natalia is an enrolled member
of the Lummi Nation located in northwest Aaliyah Gina Gavaris Gina is a licensed professional
counselor and founder and executive director of Unified Solutions Tribal
Community Development Group, Inc., a 501(c)3 national nonprofit agency
dedicated to partnering with AI/AN communities and their allies to end violent
crime, heal from the effects of trauma, and celebrate resilience. Formerly, Gina directed the Walking in
Balance Family Violence Intervention Programs at the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, where
she established numerous programs, including the tribal victim compensation
program, tribal batterer re-education program, and the Yoeme Traditional Arts
Program. She has co-chaired the Southwest Indian Coalition Against Domestic
Violence, chaired the Pascua Yaqui Collaborative Community Response Team, and
served as a member of the Federal and Tribal Effective Sex Offender Management
Teams and Tribal Public Safety Committee.
She assisted in drafting and introducing new legislation for the Pascua
Yaqui Victim Rights Ordinance, the Sex Offender Notification Law, the
Collaborative Community Response Protocol, and helped broaden definitions of
domestic abuse and sexual assault for the Tribal Code. Gina has current board seats as
the Vice-President of Marketing and Membership at the American Society of
Training and Development of Southern Arizona and as Community Liaison for the
Counselors for Social Justice Division of the American Counseling Association
(ACA). She is a professional member of
the ACA and the American Mental Health Counselors Association, and an advisory
board member for the Native American Circle Domestic Violence Fatality Review
initiative, and the curriculum development
committee of the national American Indian/Alaska Native Victim Assistance
Academy. She is the author of "A Cross-Cultural Introduction to
Working with Native Americans who are Victims of Crime." Erin L. Good Erin Good (Métis) is a Research & Publications
Specialist for Unified Solutions. She
earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology from Andrea Hernandez Holm Andrea joined
Unified Solutions as a Research/Publications Specialist at the end of June. Her
responsibilities include working with the monthly newsletter and conducting
research. She has recently returned to Melissa Estelle Riley Melissa (Mescalero Apache
Tribe) is a Training and Technical Assistance Specialist for Unified
Solutions. She is a graduate of New
Mexico State University, where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Human and
Community Services and double-minored in Community Health and Criminal Justice.
Melissa is currently pursuing a teaching license and a Masters degree in
Counseling and Educational Psychology. She has over 11 years of work experience
in Native American communities in In her pursuit of higher
education, Melissa conducted extensive research in areas such as the ‘Impact of
Incarceration on the Family Structure’ and ‘Multicultural Counseling’. She has been a co-principal to a Native
American environmental consulting company, an active participant in the New
Mexico Native American Sub-Committee for Indian Affairs and a member of the
Work Task Force Sub-committee for NM Native Americans. She has been honored to
be a guest speaker at numerous conferences in Claudia Rivas Claudia is a part time employee
at Unified Solutions and a full time student at Project Partners Pamela E. Iron Pamela E. Iron (Cherokee/Laguna
Pueblo) is Executive Director for the National Indian Women’s Health Resource
Center (NIWHRC). As the formal organizer
of NIWHRC she has served as the Executive Director developing programs and
directing the activities, since its inception in 1998. Ms. Iron is a health management consultant to
tribes and urban Indian health programs, conducting quality assurance studies,
focus groups and strategic planning and technical assistance to tribes to
increase their capacity to administer health programs, capacity building
through coalitions and partnerships and
continues to work with Congressional committees to develop legislative language
to increase health programming and appropriate funding for those activities. During her thirty-year career,
she spent twenty-seven years focused on improving the health care status of
Indian people. She developed the Recruited by Wilma Mankiller,
former Chief of Cherokee Nation and national Indian leader, Ms. Iron served as
the Director of the Health Care System for the Cherokee Nation. During those years she also served as Vice
President on the first Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Health Care
Authority, the State Medicaid agency.
She has had the opportunity to work with both sides of the eligibility
issue and has complete understanding of the barriers faced by individuals in
the community trying to access the public third party system. In 1997-1999, she conducted a two-year focus
group activity for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute regarding,
developing culturally relevant heart health material. Pam was the community outreach liaison and
led all focus groups. She contacted the
tribal leaders, developed the necessary relationships and conducted the focus
groups with the researcher that designed the case study. In 1998, Ms. Iron participated as a team
member to coordinate an Indian Health Service/Tribal/Urban Initiative for
Reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA) that included
planning and executing four regional meetings.
In her current capacity she
oversees Technical Assistance to the Tribal programs funded by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early
Detection Program. She provides Cultural Competency Training for three Federal
agencies, Listening Circles for integrating Traditional Healing practices and
coalition/partnership building training. Michael Kaiser has worked in
the area of victim assistance since 1983 and as the Director of Programs at the
For 15 years he worked at Safe
Horizon New York City holding a variety of senior staff positions, including
Associate Director for Development and External Affairs and Associate Director
for Administration. Throughout his career, Mr.
Kaiser has developed new programs and expanded the capacities of communities to
respond to victims, including developing model policies in the areas of police
response to domestic violence and stalking; developing emergency, transitional,
and permanent housing for battered women and intimidated victim/witnesses;
creating training programs and service
delivery protocols for identifying and serving domestic violence victims in the
medical setting; and, implementing programs directed at addressing the issue of
teen victimization Mr. Kaiser has trained
extensively training and the local and national level, including training
police, doctors, youth development workers, employee assistance providers,
prosecutors, and victim assistance providers. He has trained on broad range of
issues, including: domestic violence, stalking, the use of technology to stalk,
teen victims, community assessment, program evaluation, training and
presentation skills, safety planning, crime victims and the media, fund
raising, and collaboration. Mr. Kaiser has served on
several non-profit Boards including the College of the Atlantic in Mr. Kaiser has a BA in Human
Ecology from The College of the Atlantic in Pamela Moore Twenty five years experience
with program planning and proposal writing, non-profit administration,
community organizing, and fund-raising.
Ten years experience administering and implementing rural domestic
violence and sexual assault crisis intervention project. Experienced in
volunteer recruitment and training, interpersonal and communication skills
training and survivors support groups.
Eight years experience working with victims of crime and operating
Victim Services Unit in the District Attorney’s office for a four county
area. I was responsible for the
development of the Homicide Response Team and involved with the development of the
Crime Victims Clinic concept for responding to multiple victimization
incidents. Four years as trainer for
Oklahoma Regional Community Policing Institute. Training was offered and
presented throughout the State of CERTIFICATIONS: • Certified Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Intervention
Professional through the • Certified Trainer for the Federal Law Enforcement and
Training Council Laurel Shuster,
Ph.D., Social Science Program Specialist, Office for Victims of Dr. Shuster specializes in Indian Country initiatives at
the Office for Victims of Crime. She
currently manages OVC’s Tribal Victim Assistance (TVA) discretionary grant
program, the TVA Training & Technical Assistance grant, and several other
projects including the VOCA-TVA Working Group and the American Indian/Alaska
Native Victim Assistance Academy. Dr.
Shuster is a clinical and school psychologist and worked and lived in Native
American communities for four years; she worked for the San Carlos Apache Tribe
from 1996-98 and for the Indian Health Service at the Gallup Indian Medical
Center and Tohatchi Health Center on the Navajo reservation from
1998-2000. She has worked extensively with child abuse victims, domestic violence
victims, and family survivors of homicide victims. She worked for many years providing forensic
psychological evaluations of incarcerated juveniles. She has over 10 years experience as a school
psychologist, providing services to students of all ages with special needs. Carol Chapman Young is an enrolled member of the
Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and President of the Oklahoma Native Education
Institute Inc. She graduated from In her current capacity with
the National Indian Women’s Consultants Gus is an enrolled member of
the Pueblo of Laguna. He has more than
20 years experience working with tribal, city, state, and federal agencies
providing mental health, addictions counseling, and child welfare services as
well as managing and developing programs.
He has been licensed by the State of Gus has served as Chairman of
the Pueblo of Laguna Colony in He currently works as Clinical
Director at the Five Sandoval Behavioral Health Clinic in Dianne Barker Harrold A member of the Cherokee Nation
of Oklahoma, Harrold has lived her entire life in She taught as an adjunct
professor for ten years at NSU in Tahlequah and currently teaches at She has twice been selected She is a member of the Tahlequah
Chamber of Commerce, Hulbert Friends of Library Board, Daughters of the
American Revolution, the Cherokee County Bar Association, the Oklahoma Bar
Association, the Oklahoma Indian Bar Association, Oklahoma Women in Law
Enforcement and Cherokee County Federated Democrat Women. Harrold and her family attend Fellowship
Evangelical Free Church in Coleen Clark Coleen Clark is currently the
domestic violence coordinator under the STOP Violence Against Indian Women for
the In 1993 she became the first
Native American victim/witness coordinator in Indian country under OVC’s
initiative Share the Vision. She holds
certifications as a trainer in domestic violence, sexual assault, Expert Indian
Witness in ICWA cases. She has presented
on court preparation for child victims in Indian country to a five State Judges
conference, developed and presented power point presentations on gangs, family
violence, and cultural holistic approaches to wellness at national, state, and
tribal conferences. In 1997 she received a crime victim’s advocacy award from
the United States Attorney for her
work to reduce crime and violence on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. She is a lifelong practitioner of her Terri Graham Terri worked for the Lummi
Nation Police Department (LNPD) as a police officer and detective for 11 years
before joining the USTCDG team in June of 2005.
As a former employee of the LNPD Terri spent 2 years on patrol. While on patrol she was involved with Highway
Traffic Safety and traffic education. Terri’s third year was spent working as a
state certified Juvenile Probation Officer, where she worked within the tribal
and state court system. Terri was then
promoted to a detective where she investigated child abuse/neglect, sex crimes
and domestic violence within the tribal, state and federal system. Terri was responsible for
investigating and working with the Washington State U.S. Attorney’s office in
regards to obtaining the first federal conviction throughout the Terri has served on the Lummi
Tribal Child Protective Team (CPT), the Whatcom County Child Death Review
Board, the Lummi Domestic Violence Task Force and the Whatcom County Superior
Court Prosecutors Review Board for Sex Crimes. Terri has participated in
presenting training to the Lummi Community regarding domestic violence and
violence in the work place. She has also
presented at local women’s shelters (domestic violence) and at the Northwest
Tribal Judges Association (Full Faith and Credit-the law enforcement response). Terri has received training and
has experience involving criminal investigations, crime scene and death
investigations, sex offender registration and criminal profiling. She has also received extensive training and
experience in domestic violence, interviewing and interrogation, forensic
interviewing of children, child abuse and neglect, rape and sexual assault and
sex offender grooming of child victims and their families. Terri is a descendant of the
Choctaw and Cherokee Nations. She has
been married for 25 years and has two adult sons. She is passionate in regards to wellness and
justice in Indian country. Terri likes
to draw, paint and sketch. She is also a
budding photographer. Dan Hally Dan is Chief Criminal Deputy
for the Asotin County Sheriff’s Office, located in His extensive education and
training background includes: B.S. Degree in Justice Studies, Domestic Violence
Response for Law Enforcement, Homicide Investigations, Sexual Assault
Interviews, The State of Idaho Peace Officer Academy, The Washington State
Peace Officer Equivalency Academy, State of Idaho Juvenile Probation Officer
Academy, State of Idaho Family and Children Services Academy, Washington State
Criminal Justice Commission Supervisors Academy, Hazardous Materials Training,
Youth Violence Training, Community Policing, Scientific Content Analysis
Training for Deception, Recognizing
Deception in Interviews, Criminal Investigations, and over 400 hours of
Forensic Art Training including the FBI Forensic Facial Imaging Academy at
Quantico, VA and Forensic Art Certification at the Secret Service Training
Center in Maryland. Dan has assisted agencies in Dan has spoken at colleges,
high schools and conferences on the risks of dating violence, date rape drugs
and in recognizing signs of abusive behavior. He has adapted these trainings
for parents as well to help in recognizing if their children are in an abusive
relationship. Dan also serves as part of the Leadership Cadre for the Western
Regional Institute of Community Oriented Public Safety which provides
assessments for communities in developing law enforcement and community
relations. Recent projects Dan has worked on include the research and
development of training manuals for the Office of Victims of Crime on the
topics of Criminal Investigations in Indian Country, Elder Abuse in Indian
Country and Dating Violence in Indian Country. He has also authored the Nez
Perce Reservation Emergency Operations Plan revision this past year. Dan is committed to high ethical standards in
law enforcement and in helping communities overcome many of the problems
associated with crime prevention and victim services. Jeff Hepting Jeff is an enrolled member of
the Pueblo of Acoma. He currently serves
as Chief of Police for the Pueblo of Acoma Law Enforcement Services, where they
have both traditional and Jesucita Hernández Jesucita Hernández is a
resident of this small but unique town of Ms. Hernández was hired as a
Family Violence Intervention Outreach Worker on resources were out there in
order to assist victims of crime with excellence. As time went on and the team grew, Ms.
Hernández with the assistance of her co-worker, Esperanza Tavena, were able to
bring speakers and trainers to the team members to continue to educate and
appreciate the work and services they provide people daily. Ms. Hernández was elected by the team members
to chairs and facilitates the crisis response team now known as the Guadalupe
Intervention Support Advocacy Team. The
team was formed in June of 2003 and continues to grow in membership with new
agencies and community members.
G.I.S.A.T. under the supervision of Ms. Hernández has helped to increase
funding for the Walking in Balance Victim Services with the STOP Violence
Against Native Women Grant awarded in 2004.
Ms. Hernández recently became Program Manager for The Walking In Balance
Program in Guadalupe on Ms. Hernández along with the
support of her staff continues to educate communities, schools and agencies in
victim advocacy & domestic violence. Ms. Hernández knows that without the
support of her director, staff and family, none of this would be possible. Ms. Hernández would also like to make note
that without great leadership and the wisdom of others she would not have gone
as far as she did. Surrounding one self
with people of experience and knowledge will give you the wisdom and strength
to continue to fight for any cause but most importantly for people. Sharon Katz Sharon Katz has worked for the
Pascua Yaqui Tribe for 10 years. During that time, she has developed and
implemented several innovative programs providing services to parents and their
children. She developed and continues to coordinate the first Ms. Katz has served as a
consultant to the Native American Alliance Foundation (NAAF), in the
preliminary development of their Family Healing to Veronica S.M. Cook Veronica S.M. Cook is an
enrolled member of the Pascua Yaqui (Hiaki) Tribe. She lives on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation,
located about 15 miles south of the city of Veronica has worked in Domestic
Violence Intervention/Victim Services for approximately five years. She has provided education, training, and
outreach for victims, families, employees, and communities on and off of the
reservation. In addition, she has served
as an advocate in the courts. Veronica
leads the Batterer’s Re-education Men’s & Women’s Groups. She also leads groups for victims of
violence, performs crisis intervention, and is an active consultant for
agencies nationwide. As of Veronica is dedicated to
continuing her education, and is currently enrolled in the Introduction to
Administrative Criminal Justice course.
Some of her previous coursework was in Domestic Violence, Crisis
Intervention, and Introduction to Psychology, Sociology, and Chemical
Dependency. Elton Naswood Elton is of the Near to the
Water People Clan, born for the Edge Water People Clan, his maternal
grandfather’s clan is of the Mexican People, his paternal grandfather’s clan is
of the Tangle People, this is how he is Navajo, Dine. Mr. Naswood is originally from Mr. Naswood is the Project
Coordinator for the Red Circle Project, a Native American HIV Prevention
program at AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and served as a member of the
Advisory Board for the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center. He also
is a consultant for the He previously worked for the
Tribal Law & Policy Institute as Program Manager with projects including
Healing to Wellness (Drug) Court initiative and technical assistance, Hualapai
Nation Child Abuse and Neglect Program Review, Tribal Legal Studies Editorial
Review Board and serves on the American Indian/Alaska Native Victim Assistance
Academy Development Committee. Mr. Naswood received his
Bachelors of Arts Degree in Sociology and American Indian Justice Studies from Mentors from the Tribal Victim Assistance (TVA) Program Tina M. Scott Tina M. Scott lives on the
Standing Pine Choctaw Indian Reservation in In 1997, she earned an
undergraduate degree in Psychology/Sociology from the In January of 2000, she took on
the role as the Director of Community Health Services for the Since August of 2004, she has
served as the Program Director of the Family Violence and Victim’s Services
Program which falls under the auspices of the Department of Family and
Community Services. The Family Violence
and Victim’s Services Program was implemented in 1999 on the Choctaw
Reservation to provide comprehensive, convenient and confidential services to
victim’s of domestic violence, sexual assault, vulnerable adult/ elder abuse. Arlene Armijo Arlene is an enrolled member of
the Pueblo of Acoma, where she has served as the Victim/Witness Advocate for
the Pueblo of Acoma Law Enforcement Services Program for the last two
years. Prior to accepting the position with law
enforcement services she worked with the tribal social services program. Arlene received her education at St. Mary of
the Billie Jean Norgaard Billie was born and raised on
the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern In 2002 she graduated with
honors from Billie is employed as the
Business Manager at the Fort Peck Tribes’ The belief system that Billie
lives is that the women carry the power of their people. She promotes the idea
that women need to take their rightful places in roles of leadership in their
communities, their states and their nation. Billie is a survivor of
childhood trauma from domestic violence. In spite of her circumstances Billie
learned to thrive by empowering herself and other women to re-establish their
natural roles as nurturers, encouragers, and healers of their people. Billie has served in leadership
roles on every level since 1995 for the women’s ministry of Aglow
International. She is dedicated to reaching, restoring and raising up women,
specifically Native women. Billie is married to Greg
Norgaard for the past 21 years. Together they have raised two sons. Their 21 year old son Greg Lee is in his
third year of college and working towards earning his Bachelor’s in
Criminology. William “Willie” who is 18 will be going into the Navy in the fall
of 2005. She continues to live and work on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Contact Sheet T&TA
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