AIDA Projects
AIDA Partial Clients and Projects Chronological Lists for 2003 and 2011
Tribal Juvenile Justice Needs Assessment: (Statewide) - The tribal juvenile justice needs assessment will provide information about the tribal justice structure of the 19 pueblos, and 2 Apache tribes in New Mexico.
Children, Youth and Families Department Cultural Services to Indian Youth (Statewide) - This project provides cultural services to incarcerated Indian youth located at the John Paul Taylor Center in Las Cruces, NM and the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center in Albuquerque, NM.
Mescalro IGA Project Phase II
(Statewide) - Through this project, AIDA developed several methods, processes and products useful to other NM Tribes and Pueblos wishing to initiate IGA negotiations with the State in order to access State services and resources for court involved Indian children and youth.
Pueblo Sex Offender Registry Program Support - (Tribal Specific) - The focus of the project is to increase tribal capacity and capability for sex offender notification, registration and tracking required under the 2006 Adam Walsh Act.
Tribal Criminal History Record Improvement Program (TCHRIP) (Tribal Specific) - The New Mexico (NM) Tribal Criminal History Record Improvement Program (TCHRIP) is made possible with funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. The TCHRIP purpose is to improve the public safety needs of three Pueblos by enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record information systems.
Tribal Victim Assistance Evaluation at Lummi Nation and Passamaquoddy (Tribal Specific) - Tribal Program evaluation is an important component that helps everyone from staff, to clients, and governments understand the effectiveness of victim assistance programs. With funding from the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ), National Institute of Justice an evaluation of two Tribal Victim Assistance (TVA) Programs is being conducted with the Lummi Nation and Passamaquoddy Tribe. The USDOJ Office for Victims of Crime funds the TVA programs.
NM Children’s Justice Act Advisory Group, (Statewide) - This is a project to conduct a statewide training and technical assistance needs assessment of tribal, county and state practitioners and administrators regarding child abuse and neglect and sexual assault investigation, prosecution, and intervention.
NM Public Education Department (Statewide) - This project is to design a tribal consultation process between the NM Public Education Department and the NM Tribes and Pueblos to address education issues. A second component is to conduct a statewide 2004 Indian specific truancy conference.
Turtle Mountain Tribal College (Tribal Specific) - This project is to provide technical assistance to conduct an evaluability assessment of the Turtle Mountain Diabetes Program.
NM Children Youth and Families Department (CYFD) (Statewide) - Technical assistance to provide tribal liaison services to CYFD aimed at improving effective working relationships with the 22 NM Tribes and Pueblos to address children, youth and families issues related to crime, violence and victimization.
Tribal Justice and Statistics Assistance Center and the Justice Research and Statistics Association (Statewide) - Technical assistance to three NM Pueblos to develop capacity in crime and victimization data collection, analysis, and information and data sharing across jurisdictions.
US Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC) (Nationwide) - This project is to provide training and technical assistance to OVC Tribal Victim Assistance (TVA) grantees with various program development, implementation and sustainability needs. Services occur on an as needed basis. Current projects include:
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Technical assistance to assist NM Pueblos to strengthen and/or develop children’s codes, the Pueblos include: Acoma, Santa Ana, San Felipe, Zuni, Taos, and Santo Doming,
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Training Needs Assessment of TVA grantees, and
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Review and recommendations to develop a Sexual Assault training curriculum for Indian tribes.
Pueblo of Zuni (Tribal-Specific) - Technical assistance and training to assist the Pueblo with program and policy development with the following projects:
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Media advocacy campaign to address underage drinking prevention,
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Juvenile code design and development,
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Redesign of tribal response systems to increase capacity for responding to victim needs using cultural philosophies, traditions, and practices and integrating them with modern policy and program development approaches, and
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Facilitation to develop a five-year Safe Start Plan.
Leadership Institute (Statewide) - Technical assistance to facilitate symposiums on various issues affecting tribal governments and Indian children, youth and families related to leadership development and public policy in education, child welfare, and juvenile justice.
Wisconsin Clearinghouse (Statewide) - This project provides training on design and development of policies, programs and media advocacy to address underage drinking among Indian youth from the Wisconsin tribes. This also includes development of a toolkit for Wisconsin Indian tribes.
Urban Institute (Nationwide) - This project provided technical assistance to conduct evaluability assessments of the following US Department of Justice funded initiatives throughout Indian country:
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Caliber (Nationwide) - This project supported Caliber to conduct evaluability assessments of the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program.
Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) (Nationwide) - Partnership to provide technical assistance on projects the Institute conducts for Indian country programs, these include:
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Planning assistance for the Eighth and Ninth Indian Nations Conferences,
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Design and development of an Indian victims academy for Indian victim assistance practitioners, administrators and policymakers, and
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Design of a data collection instrument to obtain tribal victim services, promising practices information.
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) (Nationwide) - This project provided training on design and development of community coalitions in tribal communities and assisted participants to mobilize their communities to address alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos (Tribal-specific) - Feasibility study to assess alcohol-related Indian crime and juvenile delinquency among the Sandoval County Pueblos. The consortium is comprised of Jemez, Zia, Santa Ana, Sandia, Cochiti, San Felipe, and Santo Domingo Pueblos. This project informed the FSIP Pueblos to select the most appropriate correctional responses to crime and delinquency.
TRIAD Research Group (Statewide) - Technical assistance provided to facilitate three separate focus groups involving Native American respondents to obtain their perspectives on health and human services and education issues affecting New Mexico Indian children from 0 to 17 years old.
Pueblo of Taos (Statewide) - This project provided training and technical assistance for implementation of a conference addressing design and development of tribal children’s codes and to facilitate design of work plans with conference participants (tribal teams).
State of New Mexico, Indian Affairs Department (IAD) (Statewide) - Project to provide facilitation services to assist the IAD and Commission on Indian Affairs develop a 2003 strategic plan consistent with requirements of the New Mexico Performance Based Budget Strategic Plan.
US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (Tribal-specific) - This research project examined Indian crime victimization in the Pueblo of Zuni, which assisted Pueblo to redesign strategies for effective victim response systems.
US Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Statewide) - Research project to study the causes and correlates of Pueblo youth crime, delinquency and violence in the Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, which include the Pueblos of Jemez, Zia, Santa Ana, Cochiti and Sandia.
Aquinnah Wampanoag Indian Nation (Tribal-specific) - This project provided ongoing training and technical assistance to assist the Tribal Council in developing a strategic plan for the community and assist with various implementation strategies for the plan.
US Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Nationwide) - Multi-year cooperative agreement to provide training and technical assistance to Native American and Alaskan Native Tribes to develop their juvenile justice systems. The training and technical assistance included on site visits, development of training curriculum, program and policy development, needs assessment, and team building development.
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (Nationwide) - This multi-year contract project provides training and technical assistance to Indian nations on enforcement of underage drinking laws and understanding the impact of alcohol-related crime and violence on youth, family and communities through policy training and design, media advocacy, and leadership development for criminal and juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, policy makers, communities and youth.
US Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (National) - This project is to provide technical assistance to OVW to develop effective evaluation methods to stop violence against women programs throughout the country, including Indian nations.
State of New Mexico, Indian Affairs Department (Statewide) - Project to provide facilitation services to assist the Office of Indian Affairs Provide staff to develop their 2002 program plan consistent with requirements of the New Mexico Performance Based Budget Strategic Plan.
Institute for College Research Development and Support (National) - Short-term assistance to develop training materials and provide instruction on grant writing and resource development for tribal colleges.
California State Attorney General’s Office (Statewide) - Cultural diversity Training for the Office of Criminal Justice and Planning to improve understanding of Indian crime and victimization issues affecting children, youth and families, and to improve delivery of culturally sensitive services and treatment.
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