Now there is a special workshop for administrative/planning staff of schools with 10% or more Native students.

Here are the areas covered:

• Why do Native youth experience the highest rate of violence, dropouts, suspensions and expulsions, in both Native and mixed schools?
• The "why" of excessive Native substance abuse and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (F.A.S.) and how to prevent both - Native Ways.
• How fractures in parenting skills from 200 years ago continues to affect Native people today.
• Native drinking patterns that, because of being unknown to non-Native researchers, have been left out of drug programs; resulting in costly failures.
• New research on the unique motivation triggers, value systems and learning strengths of Native children.

Also preview new Native American drug and violence prevention classroom curriculum.

• Curriculum that includes special units on "Survival Skills".  Skills for children to emotionally survive and break cycles of family substance abuse.
• Learn about new intervention skills to more effectively respond to student misbehaviors.  Help misbehaving students (fights, cussing, insolence, etc.) make behavioral changes [capitalizing on educable moments], and in the process, stop high rates of transfers and suspensions of Native children.
• All school staff (bus drivers, aides, teachers, food service) can use these skills to help troubled students.  Dramatically reduces "burnout" and your school's academic achievements will automatically increase.