Tribe: Yurok Tribe
View Source Document: Yurok Tribe: Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Water and Aquatic Resources
Year: 2014
Topic: Adaptation Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Multi-Generational Trauma (View All Topics in the Plan)
Engage in organized activities to enhance social cohesion, promote mental wellness and return to culture.
Visit with each other to cultivate conversation and relationships.
Provide opportunities to connect people (especially youth) back to the land through land management projects and sustainable food practices.
Promote opportunities to have community members gather and increase social cohesion and engage in cultural activities as an opportunity for...
Enhance support for women’s and men’s groups to increase social cohesion and promote mental wellness (e.g., men’s sweat lodge, women’s...
Teach culturally appropriate ways to express love in a healthy manner through all Tribal programs, ceremonies and gatherings.
Invest and find additional funds to expand Social Services to respond to impacts from multi-generational trauma.
Increase cross and interdepartmental collaboration to provide basic services (e.g., economic opportunities, electricity, phones, water) to break the cycle of...
Develop and expand suicide prevention programs (e.g., modify the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training for a tribal context).
Develop a pamphlet or storybook that retells the Yurok story on how to process grief and live without focus on...
Love and care for all children to begin to heal the wounds of past generations.