Health & Wellness

Child Advocacy

AIDA firmly believes in advocating on behalf of children, particularly Indian children who have no voice in the justice system. Although AIDA does not provide direct advocacy services for individual cases, technical assistance focuses on code development and public policy and provides training on strategies to raise awareness for child advocacy, protection, pubic defense, and developing intergovernmental agreements to improve access to services and resources for children, youth and families.

Child Protection Teams

This technical assistance and training seminar focuses on child advocacy through interagency interaction and collaboration in child protection teams. This seminar assists trainees to learn about important elements of a child protection team (CPT) and effective response systems. Within a two-day seminar, a focus group meeting is conducted to discuss the existing response systems and training is provided on team processing, CPT structure, and skill development for team members and community awareness approaches.

Early Intervention and Secondary Prevention Programs

The Early Intervention Program (EIP) focuses training on alternatives to traditional processing of status offenders or first time youth offenders arrested, charged and/or adjudicated for substance-abuse crimes and/or non-violent offenses. The goal is to provide early intervention to the at-risk youth or young offender and his or her family so that law-violating behavior can be deterred, to divert young offenders from having a formal court record established, to reduce recidivism, and to prevent relapse into past addictive or negative behavior. A three day seminar provides information on key program elements and includes interactive activities, which allow participants to begin planning a community-based EIP program while at the training.