Module 8
Interdependence: Personal and Community
Development
Day 3




Overview Time
Purpose Learning Objectives
Major Sections Handouts


Overview

 This module provides a format of transformation from the personal, family, and community renewal stage to developing a foundation for planning community wellness and prevention of alcohol and drug abuse

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Time

 3 hours and 20 minutes

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Purpose

 To examine the need for a systematic approach to a community-wide planning system that fosters interdependence and inclusiveness in addressing the unique diversity of each community.

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Learning Objectives

 Participants will be able to:
  1. Listen to traditional Indian stories and apply teachings that promote societal and community harmony and spirituality.
  2. List relevant Indian principles that foster community well­being.
  3. Identify strengths and challenge as a framework for community organizing.
  4. Identify roles for various agencies or groups within a community.
  5. Identify processes that a person moves through toward contributing to a well community.

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Major Sections
I.Storytelling: Coyote and the Blood Monster (15 minutes)
II.Mini-Teach: What is Native American Wellness? (30 minutes)
Optional Video: Native American Prevention Project Against AIDS and Substance Abuse (25 minutes)
III.Exercise: Active Community Development

To identify strengths and challenges or a framework of "community" based on the principles of resiliency.
Use: Community Wheel (CCPT)
  • Develop the Community Wheel
  • Then identify strategies of how to utilize their resiliency factors
(1 hour, 15 minutes)
BREAK(20 minutes)
IV.Exercise: Commitment Candles

Also include in the mini-teach examples of the healing self-help movement NANACOA, women, and wellness, etc. 		(60 minutes)
V.Closing(2 minutes)


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Transparencies
T-8.0:Module 8 Purpose and Learning Objectives
T-8.1:Medicine Wheel (Wellness Circle)
T-8.2:Community Wheel
T-8.3:Threads That Mend the Indian World


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Handouts
HO-8.1:Coyote and Blood Monster Story
HO-8.2:Medicine Wheel (Wellness Circle)
HO-8.3:Community Wheel
HO-8.4:Community Ownership
HO-8.5:National Prevention Network
HO-8.6:NANACOA 1-800 number + Order Blank for NANACOA Video


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