Abstract
| This project was designed by the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan to serve 4 of the 12 federally recognized tribes, providing culturally based outpatient treatment and early intervention services for adults. It embodies both western medical principles and practices, and traditional Anishinabek healing practices to address substance abuse. |
Objectives
Serve 260 customers annually at all 4 sites, 65 per site.
Indian Nation Served
Bay Mills Indian Community, Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Little Traverse Band of Odawa, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa
Key Components
Counseling, teaching community values, teaching language (Anishinaabemowin), spiritual and religious practices (Native and non-Native), teaching tribal history and creation story, role responsibility, and connectedness to all of creation via the Circle of Life (Medicine Wheel) as it relates to the individual.
Evaluation Design
The evaluation approach proposed for this project is best described as descriptive. Descriptive studies refer to a family of methods that are commonly used to measure (1) program resources, (2) services delivered, (3) program clients and their characteristics, (4) program contexts, and (5) outcome variables. This type of inquiry is best applied to efforts directed at documenting how an agency carried out a program, providing the agency with information that can be used in continuous quality improvement, documenting unforeseen byproducts, and estimating the program effects or outcomes.
Evaluation Results
The evaluation approach proposed for this project is best described as descriptive. Descriptive studies refer to a family of methods that are commonly used to measure (1) program resources, (2) services delivered, (3) program clients and their characteristics, (4) program contexts, and (5) outcome variables. This type of inquiry is best applied to efforts directed at documenting how an agency carried out a program, providing the agency with information that can be used in continuous quality improvement, documenting unforeseen byproducts, and estimating the program effects or outcomes.
Products Developed