§1665i Training and Community Education

Summary

A federal Secretary, working with the Secretary of the Interior, must help tribes and tribal groups set up and run a local program in each Service unit or tribal program that gives clear, timely information and training about behavioral health. That program must teach political leaders, tribal judges, police, tribal health and school boards, health care workers (including traditional healers), and other key community members. It can also include community training to build local skills and to train tribal providers in prevention, intervention, treatment, and aftercare. The Secretary, through the Service, must provide training on behavioral health topics like crisis intervention, family relationships affected by alcohol and drug use, child sexual abuse, youth substance abuse, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders to Bureau of Indian Affairs and Service employees and to staff in schools or programs run under contract with them, including emergency shelter and halfway house supervisors. The Secretary must also work with tribes and Indian health experts to create community-based training models that cover higher risks for children of alcoholics, cultural and multigenerational aspects of healing, and community and team approaches to prevention and treatment.