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The Gathering of Native Americans/Gathering of Alaska Natives (GONA/GOAN) program is a 3-day community event that aims to promote wellness and address community-identified issues. The GONA/GOAN is designed for the whole community including youth, elders, tribal leaders, and spiritual leaders, but a GONA/GOAN can be focused on youth. Native practitioners developed the GONA/GOAN curriculum to empower Native communities, promote mental health, and facilitate healing in response to historical trauma, mental and substance use disorders, and suicide. The GONA/GOAN also seeks to reinforce cultural connections and support healthy and safe child development. In preparation for the GONA/GOAN, a GONA/GOAN consultant establishes a planning committee with diverse members of the community at least 2 months before the event. The community-led planning process ensures that the event is representative of the community’s unique cultural traditions, spiritual practices, perspective, issues, and needs.
GenerationPMTO – Group, also known as Parenting through Change (PTC) and formerly known as Parent Management Training – Oregon Model (PMTO®), is a group-based parenting and family functioning intervention. The intervention is designed to increase parenting skills and promote effective family management.
GenerationPMTO – Individual, formerly known as Parent Management Training – Oregon Model (PMTO®), is a parenting and family functioning intervention. The intervention is designed to increase parenting skills and promote effective family management.
Guiding Good Choices® (GGC), formerly known as Preparing for the Drug Free Years (PDFY), aims to prevent teen substance use and risky behaviors by training parents to develop positive parenting and family management skills. GGC includes five sessions that cover (1) how to promote health and wellbeing during the teen years, (2) setting clear guidelines, (3) managing conflict, (4) helping children avoid trouble, and (5) strengthening family bonds. When delivered in a virtual setting, the program includes an additional introductory session focused on fostering community online. Between sessions, parents lead family meetings designed to promote bonding and to involve children in activities and discussions of important family issues. Parents receive a “family guide” to complete in preparation for each upcoming session. Family guides provide an overview of the content, links to key resources, and exercises to be discussed during the next session.
Helping Women Recover (HWR) and Beyond Trauma (BT) are two curricula delivered sequentially as one trauma-informed and trauma-responsive intervention (HWR+BT). HWR+BT integrates theories of addiction, women’s psychological development, and trauma into gender-specific programming. HWR+BT aims to reduce substance misuse, decrease depression, increase knowledge about trauma, decrease trauma symptoms, increase self-efficacy, and stabilize recovery from addiction and trauma. Facilitators deliver the intervention in group sessions that combine lectures, psychoeducation, group discussions, and grounding activities such as yoga. Participants complete homework activities in between sessions to individually process the material covered during group sessions. HWR is delivered in 20 sessions, starting with an introductory session followed by four modules covering: self (four sessions), relationships (seven sessions), sexuality (five sessions), and spirituality (three sessions). These modules are designed to help participants understand how their sense of self, relationships, sexuality, and spirituality affect addiction and recovery.
Homebuilders provides intensive, in-home counseling, skill building and support services for families who have children (0-18 years old) at imminent risk of out-of-home placement or who are in placement and cannot be reunified without intensive in-home services. Homebuilders practitioners conduct behaviorally specific, ongoing, and holistic assessments that include information about family strengths, values, and barriers to goal attainment. Homebuilders practitioners then collaborate with family members and referents in developing intervention goals and corresponding service plans. These intervention goals and service plans focus on factors directly related to the risk of out-of-home placement or reunification. Throughout the intervention the practitioner develops safety plans and uses clinical strategies designed to promote safety.
The Incredible Years – Parents and Babies Program (“IY-Babies”) is a group-based program that serves parents and their infants (0 to 12 months). The program typically targets parents who need support forming secure attachments with their infant. IY-Babies aims to foster parents’ abilities to provide a safe environment for their infants and help them form secure attachments, learn language and social expression, and begin to develop a sense of self. IY-Babies focuses on six developmentally appropriate topics during the sessions: (1) getting to know your baby, (2) learning how babies learn, (3) providing physical, tactile, and visual stimulation, (4) reading and responding to babies’ non-verbal cues, (5) gaining support from others, and (6) understanding babies’ development of self. During each group session, parents watch 4 to 6 situational video vignettes. They engage in discussions facilitated by the group leaders and problem solve about best parenting practices. Parents are also encouraged to complete activities at home to apply the skills they learned with the group.
The Incredible Years - School Age Basic program (“IY-School Age”) can be offered as a group-based prevention or treatment program designed for parents of children (6 to 12 years). The program typically targets higher risk populations and parents of children diagnosed with problems such as oppositional defiant disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). IY-School Age aims to strengthen parent-child interactions and attachment and reduce harsh discipline. It also aims to foster parents’ abilities to promote children’s social, emotional, and academic development and reduce behavior problems. IY-School Age focuses on 3 developmentally appropriate topics during the sessions: (1) promoting positive behavior, (2) reducing inappropriate behaviors, and (3) supporting children’s education. During each group session, parents watch 8 to 10 situational video vignettes. They engage in discussions facilitated by the group leaders and problem solve about best parenting practices. Parents are encouraged to complete activities at home to apply the skills they learned with the group.
The Incredible Years – Toddler Basic Program (“IY-Toddlers”) is a group-based program designed for parents with toddlers (1 to 3 years). The program typically targets higher risk parents who need support forming secure attachments with their toddlers or addressing their toddlers’ behavior problems. It also helps parents create secure and safe environments for children, establish routines, use appropriate discipline, and reduce behavior problems. IY-Toddlers focuses on 8 developmentally appropriate topics during the sessions: (1) child-directed play, (2) promoting toddler’s language, (3) social and emotion coaching, (4) praise and encouragement, (5) incentives, (6) separations and reunions, (7) limit setting, and (8) handling misbehavior. During each group session, parents watch 8 to 10 situational video vignettes. They engage in discussions facilitated by the group leaders and problem solve about best parenting practices. Parents are also encouraged to complete activities at home to apply the skills they learned with the group.
Individual Combined Parent-Child Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Individual CPC-CBT) is designed for families with children ages 3–17 in which parents are at-risk of engaging in or have already engaged in abusive behavior towards their children. Individual CPC-CBT aims to help children heal from abusive experiences, empower parents, strengthen parent-child relationships, and enhance family safety. The model supports parents who engage in a continuum of coercive parenting behaviors, ranging from verbal threats to unsubstantiated or substantiated physical abuse. All caregivers in the child’s life (e.g., biological parents, foster parents, grandparents) and siblings are encouraged to participate in the program. Unlike Group CPC-CBT, Individual CPC-CBT involves meeting with a single family.