What We Do
The RCORP – N.A.S. project supports the efforts to integrate wellness for health, mental, emotional, and spiritual care for women and their families. The goals are to provide knowledge to implement strategies that enhance: 1. Prevention efforts for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)/Substance Use Disorder (SUD), including family planning, 2. To improve access to SUD/OUD treatment programs, 3. Assist in developing communications to support recovery for women and families in the Big Bend, Fort Thompson, and Crow Creek districts. The GPTLHB team in the Fort Thompson office located in the Tokata Youth Center, offer assistance and support to develop Dakhota cultural knowledge and traditions as evidence-based prevention efforts for N.A.S., SUD, and OUD.
What is Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (N.A.S.)?
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome is what happens when babies are exposed to drugs in the womb before birth. Babies can then go through drug withdrawal after birth. The syndrome most often applies to opioid medicines and illegal opioids.
Support & Community Groups
Women’s Support Group
- Every Tuesday at 12 noon.
- The Women’s Group provides a place to discuss the problems that are unique to women among others who can relate, empathize and provide valuable help for each other.
- Location: Tokata Youth Center next to the B.I.A. building in Fort Thompson.
Community Story Telling for All Community Members and Visitors
- “Dakhota Stories Strengthen Family” presents every Wednesday at 12 noon.
- Using traditional and modern stories to support efforts in teaching Dakhota values of Wówicạke (honesty), Wóuƞṡida (humility), Wówacịƞya (integrity and dependability), Wauƞṡida (compassion), to support women and family efforts to live free of SUD/OUD.
- Location: Tokata Youth Center next to the B.I.A. building in Fort Thompson.
Staff
- Jean M. Nahomni Mani, Project Coordinator
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