TYP TTA

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TYP T/TA
OJJDP, through EDC Tribal Youth Training and
Technical Assistance Center, provides training
and technical assistance to Tribal Youth Program
grantees as well as all federally recognized
tribes.
Visit TYTTAC at www.tribalyouthprogram.org
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EDC Tribal Youth T/TA Center

• Accessing Training and Technical Assistance

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Your EDC T/TA Team

• EDC T/TA Staff Technical Assistant Specialists
• Stephanie Autumn, Project Director
• Anne Wang, Associate Project Director
• Erin Tackney, Research Technology Assistant
• Susan Balbas - TAS
• Marlin Farley TAS
• Jacob Flores TAS
• Alberta Iron Cloud Miller TAS
• Jane Nakken TAS
• Gabrielle Strong- TAS
• Frances Wise - TAS

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TAS - Everybody Has One !

• Every 05,06 07 Tribal Youth Program
• Grantee is assigned a Technical
• Assistant Specialist

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TAS State Assignments

• Stephanie Autumn Alaska, Arizona, California,
  Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico,
  Nevada, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Wyoming
• Susan Balbas Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
• Marlin Farley Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota,
  Wisconsin
• Jacob Flores Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico,
  Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin
• Alberta Iron Cloud Miller Montana, North
  Dakota, South Dakota
• Jane Nakken California, Minnesota, Nebraska,
  Oregon
• Gabrielle Strong - Nebraska
• Frances Wise Kansas Oklahoma

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TAS Roles Responsibilities

• Work as part of a training technical assistance
  team to proactively reach out to TYP grantees by
  phone, email, fax or site visits (when approved
  by the Program Manager and OJJDP TYP Coordinator)
• Assess grantee training technical assistance
  needs. utilizing TYP Needs Assessment instrument
• Connect TYP grantees with various services of
  EDCs Tribal Youth T/TA Center, including
  teleconferences, web- based training, peer to
  peer networking, and training opportunities
  related to the five TYP program categories

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Strengthening Your Capacity for Community Change

• We believe the best technical assistance is
  achieved through one to one relationships
• EDCs Technical Assistance Specialists have lived
  and worked in Indian County and bring a unique
  combination of content expertise and sensitivity
  to the ongoing concerns of tribal communities
• Our collective experience helps to anticipate
  your needs and resolve problems as they arise
• We believe in the human factor. Each and every
  staff member is passionately committing to
  improving the hope and life circumstances for
  tribal youth through T/TA with Tribal Youth
  Program grantees

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TYP Category Areas

• Your Technical Assistance Specialist will assist
  you in building capacity related to the TYP
  Category Areas you applied to work in.
• Provide prevention services to impact risk
  factors for delinquency
• Provide interventions for court involved youth
• Improve the tribal juvenile justice system
• Provide alcohol and drug abuse prevention
  programs
• Provide mental health program services

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Technical Assistance Specialists Work With
Grantees To

• Conduct needs and strengths assessments
• Create engaged partnerships for community wide
  change
• Develop strategic plans
• Identify local evaluation, communication and
  programmatic resources
• Employ culturally-based best practices
• Implement OJJDP TYP five program categories
• Assess program outcomes
• Identify strategies for sustaining program
  activities after TYP grant has ended

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Requesting Off Site T/TA

• Call
• Email
• Fax
• U.S. Mail
• YOUR TECHNICAL ASSISANT SPECIALIST OR THE EDC
  TRIBAL YOUTH TRAINING TECHNICAL ASSISTENCE
  CENTER

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Requesting Onsite T/TA

• Step 1 TYP grantees can download Tribal Youth
  Assistance Request Form from www.tribalyouthprogr
  am.org.
• Step 2 Fill out and submit through email, fax or
  mail - OJJDP
• T/TA Request Form to
• Stephanie Autumn
• 40163 RES Hwy 3
• Morton, MN. 56270
• PH [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail sautumn_at_edc.org

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TYP On Site T/TA Request Process

• EDC Tribal Youth T/TA Center will review request
  to ensure all necessary information has been
  included in the request
• TYP Assistance Request Form is then forwarded to
  assigned OJJDP Program Manager for approval
• OJJDP Program Manager reviews approves/disapproves
  .
• Program Manager forwards approved TYP Assistance
  Request Form to Laura Ansera, TYP Program
  Coordinator, OJJDP Office of Policy Development
  for final approval/disapproval

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• Once approved by Laura Ansera, TYP Assistance
  Request Form is emailed back to OJJDP Program
  Manager and to Stephanie Autumn, Project
  Director, EDC Tribal Youth T/TA Center
• S. Autumn contacts the TAS assigned to the
  grantee to review request
• TAS contacts TYP Grantee and develops a T/TA
  response plan and schedule on site T/TA

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What if ??

• What if TYP grantee has a T/TA request that is
  outside of their assigned TAS expertise?
• The TAS Team of EDC Tribal Youth T/TA Center will
  be contacted to respond to TYP Grantee T/TA
  request
• If there is not expertise among TAS team, S.
  Autumn will identify a consultant from EDCs
  Tribal Youth T/TA Center Consultant Resource List
  with appropriate expertise to work with the TYP
  grantee T/TA request

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Questions?

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It Begins Ends With Each of Us

• When in doubt, be still and wait
• When doubt no longer exists for you, go forward
  with
• courage
• So long as the mists envelopes you, be still and
  wait
• until sunlight pours through and dispels the mist
• As it surely will Then act with courage
• Chief White Eagle
• Ponca Nation