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In support of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Preparedness Directorate's Office of Grants and Training (G&T) mission to assist state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments to prevent, protect agianst, and respond to incidents of national signifiucance and catastrophic events, and to compliment existing WCPI homeland security efforts, this course offers a unique, innovative, and non-duplicative national training approach to enhancing national homeland security preparedness for
emergencies and disasters of all kinds on Tribal lands and in Tribal communities.
This course addresses the unique, significant, and often overlooked threats to homeland security on Tribal lands and surrounding jurisdictions, with a focus on building working, effective, and efficient collaborative partnerships throught Tribal lands.
This course is the initial installment in a series of courses designed to establish and expand homeland security regionalization through the building of both tribal and non-tribal partnerships and collaboration in regions across the United State s . This particular course is designed as an introductory course. Each subsequent course thereafter will draw from the information of this course, but will be tailored more specifically to that specific region, and to enabling participation in the establishment and expansion of a homeland security regionalization initiative within that region. Information gathered from each course delivery will be utilized in tailoring the homeland security regionalization workshop for thatregion which will comprise the next installment in the series of courses.
This two-day training is designed to bring together Tribal Government, community members and law enforcement top learn techniques on how to empower their communities to ethically identify and solve community problems through the use of community policing concepts, advocacy, and problem-solving. Topics include: Community policing principles, team building, community-police relationships, creating collaborative partnerships, problem-solving through identification, analysis, and response development, facilitating change,and action planning. During this training, relationships are formed and teams return to their respective tribes/communities to implement their action plans applying problem-solving and collaborative partnership strategies.
This twelve-session project with students at the Chemawa Indian School is designed to provide students with an opportunity to learn, develop, and apply leadership skills while also assisting project staff in creating a tribal youth-focused meth prevention program. During each class session, students will be introduced to a specific leadership concepts and skills, such as critical thinking, partnership building, or problem solving, and then be provided with a hands-on opportunity to practice that skill using experiential activities. Through working in learning teams, students will analyze and apply their skills to complete course assignments and activities. Class session will be facilitated by knowledgeable Native American leaders and subject matter experts, who will work with students and act as mentors and positive role models. Woven throughout the program will be meth awareness and prevention information and students will play an active role in providing the valuable youth-perspective for the development of a tribal youth meth prevention program.
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