American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States continue to persist and thrive, but the opioid crisis and opioid overdose deaths are a current threat to health and wellbeing. American Indians in Minnesota have the highest opioid overdose death rate of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States. Aim: As one effort to address this, a partnership was initiated between a Minnesota rural tribal nation, Gaa-waabaabiganikaag (White EarthNation), and investigators at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, with funding support from the National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS). These partners embarked on a NDEWS HotSpot study to identify risk and protective factors for opioid overdose deaths for White Earth Nation.
This resource was shared during a Gathering Grounds session

Seven Directions, in partnership with the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona (ITCA) and the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center (GLITEC), created a Risk Communication Toolkit for Tribes to develop or improve their health risk communication efforts. This Toolkit has resources and examples of effective communication for Indigenous communities related to suicide, adverse childhood experiences, and intimate partner violence.

The following are resources that were shared during the Gathering Grounds: How is your Tribal or Urban Indian community responding to COVID-19? Community Meeting on April 7, 2020.

The goal of Gathering Grounds Indigenous Community of Practice is to collect, share and discuss promising public health practices around the selected topics with Tribal leaders, Tribal and Urban Indigenous public health professionals, and content experts. To register for Gathering Grounds visit: https://www.indigenousphi.org/indigenous-community-of-practice.

This resource was shared during a Gathering Grounds session