Capacity Building
Program staff that receive grant funding often need to build their capacity in one or more areas to ensure the project's outcomes become successful and sustainable. TYP project staff may need training and technical assistance in a variety of areas; developing and conducting a needs assessments, logic model development, program curriculum implementation, and data collection. Changes can also be made in your community's infrastructure that will last long past the funding period.
Offering staff training and development
By training staff, you are building their capacity to do work towards the project's goals. Staff will then be able to act upon the knowledge that they have gained through trainings and technical assistance past the funding period. You may also decide to provide training so that staff can in turn become trainers. Other knowledge gained through training and technical assistance such as learning how to do strategic planning can also build the capacity of staff and in turn the community within which they work.
Example:
When staff receive both provider and training of trainer's levels of curricula, your program's potential is increased to sustain not only the program model but also the capacity to expand the model throughout other tribal youth serving agencies in your community.
New Initiatives: Considerations Related to Planning, Implementing and Sustaining, and Going to Scale* (Report)
http://library.promoteprevent.org/item.php?id=118554&catid=116366
Our Model of Practice: Building Capacity for Community and Systems Change (Toolkit)
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/section_1002.htm
Building Infrastructure
Building your community's infrastructure means institutionalizing changes in the system that will last long past the original staffers are gone. For example, you may create a referral team made up of representatives from mental health, juvenile justice, and education to which all youth who enter the juvenile justice system are automatically referred. This referral team can become part of the infrastructure of your community even after the original members have left the team. Another example is creating a data collection system that all agencies and youth serving organizations are linked into and trained in. This data collection system will last long past the grant period and will continue to provide valuable information for future programs.
Rebuilding Student Supports into a Comprehensive System for Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching (Toolkit)
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/summit2002/resourceaids.htm
Identifying Promising Practices
Every tribal community's needs are different. Therefore, the programs designed to meet those unique needs will likely be different as well. Selecting appropriate programs for your community requires data collection and research to identify the appropriate match. However, once a well-selected and matched program is chosen it will likely garner support and be offered as long as the need is matched with the program.
OJJDP Promising Practices and Strategies to Reduce Alcohol & Substance Abuse Among American Indians and Alaska Natives
http://www.ncjrs.gov/typ
University of Washington School of Social Work, Indigenous Wellness Research Institute
http://www.iwri.org
Native American Center for Excellence, Prevention Technical Assistance Resource Center
http://www.kauffmaninc.com
OJJDP's Program of Research for Tribal Youth
http://www.ncjrs.gov/publications/tribal/index.html
Native Hope Youth Training
www.oneskycenter.org
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