• Native Teens experience Healing

Cultural Recovery Programs for Native Teens

Talking Circles - Support Groups deal with Life's Hurts, Habits & Hang ups specific to our Native youth.

Horse Program - Bringing the power of Horse and Spirit together for Emotional Healing .

Elder's Gate - Bringing Spiritual Guidance, Cultural preservation & mentorship from our Elder's own "real life" experiences to our Native youth.

Step It Up - Mentorship and Wellness Program provides Healthy lifestyle and leadership direction youth so desperately need

TEEN & PARENT COMMENTS:

"Having a support group to go to on Tuesday's and Saturday's is really what I needed. I reciently came off drugs. I started doing drugs because of a rape I experienced not long ago. The pain hurt so much I didn't know what to do. I'm going to other recovery groups but this is by far the best one. Here you feel comfortable and your not judged. I get inspired by our group leader."

Anonymous - 17 yrs old

"First I give thanks to the Creator for bringing us an indigenous angel and honorable woman warrior such as Loreta. The Ancestors are proud and the Spirit has given you gift to help our people. You help my daughter. Because you took time with her and made her feel she was important she has no broken spirit like before. Ihéedn Thank You!!"

Reyna Martinez - Mother - Jicarilla

Teen Stats:

* 1/3 of all Teens will Drink Heavily this month

* Over 3 Million Teens are Alcoholic in the U.S

* 21% of Teens Abuse Drugs

In the next 24 hours... (Based on national averages)

· 1,439 Teens will attempt suicide

· 2,795 Teenage girls will become pregnant

· 15,006 Teens will use drugs for the first time

· 3,506 Teens will run away

In the next 24 hours, WHAT WILL YOU DO to show your support to HELP prevent this problem? (To Help Now Go to: http://www.TATAN.org)

Youth are our future they impact an entire community.

You can change the life of a teenager.

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*1 in 3 girls and 1 in 7 boys under the age of 18 are sexually abused.

Sexual abuse has become a major problem, and hits every socio-economic sector. In the United States alone, an average of 5.5 out of 10,000 children enrolled in daycare are sexually abused, and an average of 8.9 of these statistics are abused in the home (5). Contrary to popular belief, males are not the only perpetrators in sex abuse cases. Approximately 60 % of the male survivors report at least one of their perpetrators to be female.

*Eighty percent of prisoners in the United States were abused as children or raised in violent homes.

* Convicted rape and sexual assault offenders serving time in State prisons report that two-thirds of their victims were under the age of 18, and 58% of those said their victims were aged 12 or younger.

* Between 3.3 and 10 million children are exposed to domestic violence each year. Forty-five to seventy percent of these children are physically abused themselves
* Child abuse reports have maintained a steady growth for the past ten years, with the total number of reports nationwide increasing 45% since 1987. Seven percent of all children that go back to the home in which they were abused, are abused again.

Child Abuse Statistics Sources:

1. yellodyno.com
2. jimhopper.com
3. cwla.org
4. prevent-abuse-now.com
5. yellodyno.com/html/children_victims_stats.html
6. yesican.org
7. childwelfare.gov
8. supreme.state.az.us
9. tri-countycouncil.org
10. childviolence.com
11. aswaterspassingby.org