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Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart is Oglala/Hunkpapa Lakota. She is the woman who developed the theory of Historical Trauma and the interventions for helping American Indian and other indigenous people with these issues. She is an associate professor at Columbia University and has developed the curriculum for historical trauma training.
Email: historicaltrauma@gmail.com
Ray Daw, M.A., is a member of the Navajo Nation and is a co-trainer with Dr. Yellow Horse Brave Heart. He has participated in the development of community-based prevention models and evaluation standards for Indian behavioral health programs. He has provided training in historical trauma, Dine’ best practices, dual disorders, culturally competent treatment, case management, coalition building, environmental prevention, and other topics.
Email:raydaw@aol.com
Kimberly Ross-Toledo is a member of the Dine’ and Dakota nations. She has a BA in Psychology with a minor in Social Studies. Kimberly has worked in the Prevention Education field for 18+ years. She has been incorporating the study of Historical Trauma impacts in the field of prevention for 10 years. She has worked as a counselor, prevention specialist, and program director focused on developing leadership qualities in youth to help encourage them to become active, engaged community citizens.Email:krt_givme.asmile@yahoo.com
Nadine Tafoya is a Mescalero Apache tribal member married and living in Santa Clara Pueblo. She has worked to improve the quality of behavioral health and health services in the New Mexico’s Native American communities for over 20 years. Nadine Tafoya & Associates is a consultant organization that Ms. Tafoya founded and works with a team of Associates providing facilitation and mediation, training, technical assistance, program evaluation and program development to NM tribes, tribal organizations and state and community agencies. As a consultant for the Indian Health Service, the NM Department of Health, Behavioral Health Services Division, and the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, Ms. Tafoya works to ensure alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse and health disparity issues are addressed and that effective, quality programs are developed to meet the needs of Native Americans. Email:nayanet2426@gmail.com
Stephanie Autumn, Hopi. Has lived and worked as a grassroots community activist, trainer, facilitator, organizer and program director in urban & reservation communities in South Dakota and Minnesota for the past thirty -three years. Twenty-five years of experience in administration of education, social service, pre and post release prison programs for American Indian adults & juveniles, criminal justice and restorative justice programs. In the past twenty- two years has participated in numerous human rights commissions in Geneva, Switzerland, Japan, Russia, Africa, and Libya and throughout Europe. Stephanie is a mother & grandmother and currently working on a Masters Degree in Public Policy. Stephanie is currently a Technical Assistant Specialist for the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention and Project Director for Educational Development Center’s Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center. Email:sautumn@edc.org
Maria Brock, L.I.S.W. (Laguna and Santa Clara Pueblos/German/Czech), an "urban Indian", was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico (1998). She then went on to complete a Master of Social Welfare degree at the University of California , Berkeley (2001). She has been blessed to work with both urban and rural Native people, in New Mexico and California . Her direct practice is diverse, encompassing adults, children, youth and families focusing on issues of recovery and resiliency. She is most interested in holistic treatment modalities and has incorporated acupuncture detoxification into her practice with substance using adults. She is a founding contributor to the Native American Community Academy, a charter school in Albuquerque for middle and high school students, and is currently the clinical supervisor for their Student Support Services.Email:brock_maria@yahoo.com
Lois Delong, MA, LADAC, Turtle Mountain Chippewa (Anishinaabe), is currently employed with Value Options, NM as a Program and Resources Development Specialist and Trainer, in Region 6, the Native American region. She has worked in the field of Substance Abuse treatment for 28 years throughout the country in various settings, with adults, adolescents and their families utilizing standardized western psychological and 12 Step approaches as well as Native American specific techniques, to bring about healing from Intergenerational Grief and Trauma. Ms. DeLong is a Native woman who has provided training in the 12 Core Functions for Substance Abuse Counselors, Grief in Native Communities, Federal Confidentiality and Ethics (specific to the dynamics of Native communities), Building Healthy Relationships, Team Building in the Work Place, and Empowering Youth Through Connecting to Culture. Email:nabaywa@aol.com
Other trainers; Birgil Kill Straight (Lakota)
Paula Feathers is a Pawnee/Cherokee who grew up on the Zuni Reservation in New Mexico. Her career has been dedicated to health promotion and substance abuse prevention. She played Division I volleyball at the University of New Mexico where she earned a University Studies degree specializing in Native American Studies and Psychology. Paula earned a Master's Degree in Administrative Leadership from the University of Oklahoma. Paula provides technical assistance, training, organizational development, curriculum development, and facilitation services to a wide audience including Tribal Nations, federal agencies, and state government agencies. Email:paulafeathers@gmail.com
David Kagabitang, LCSW, CAC-R. Waganakising Odawa Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians from
Harbor Springs, MI. David is a clinical social worker with the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs and have been here almost 2 years now. I do outreach to prisons in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I've worked almost the full continuum of care for substance abuse from outpatient to residential. I worked at my Tribe for 7 years as a substance abuse counselor and psychotherapist. Email:David.Kagabitang@va.gov
Gloria K. King, MA, LPC, NCC, LADAC, CADS. A member of the Navajo Nation, Gloria’s clan is Tlaashchii (The Red Cheek People) and born for Dziltlahnii (Mountain Cove Clan) and is originally from Shiprock, NM. Her experience in behavioral health services is with reservation and off-reservation Native Americans in rural and urban settings as a clinician, clinical supervisor and in management. She is currently Health Services Administrator – Interim CEO at Navajo Regional Behavioral Health Center (NRBHC) since 11/08, DBHS Navajo Nation, Shiprock, NM. She is also an independent consultant, Rainbow Star Healing, providing cultural competency training, clinical supervision, spirituality/holistic services, technical assistance for substance abuse treatment/healing, integration of traditional healing & western treatment, a speaker/presenter and advocate for social justice to eliminate health disparities. Email:kingglok@yahoo.com
Willie Wolf, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, is the president of Red Road Leadership Consulting. Mr. Wolf has a masters in education and another masters in public administration. Over the last 30 years Mr. Wolf has conducted training for Tribal communities, urban Indian organizations, nonprofits and government agencies. Areas have included community development, wellness, historical trauma, substance abuse prevention and recovery, organizational development, men's issues and Native American youth program development. Mr. Wolf has worked with White Bison, American Indian Training Institute and NANACOA on a number of projects. Email:CankuLuta4@aol.com
Blaine Wood, Woody is a Cherokee citizen registered with the Western Band of the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah Oklahoma, who after straying away from his culture for two decades found a new way of living through the Medicine Wheel and 12 steps program of White Bison's Wellbriety Movement. Woody was employed with White Bison from 2002 to 2008 as the National Coordinator and Master Firestarter for the Wellbriety Programs. With the help of White Bison, Woody founded the non-profit organization Wellbriety for Prisons Inc. in 2003 and has targeted this nation’s prison system to begin a healing movement from the inside out. Email:info@wellbrietyforprisons.org
Tuffy Sierra (Lakota) tsierra@gwtc.net
Josie Chase Email: joze9987@aol.com
Larry Emerson (Dine') Email:emerson714@gmail.com
and many others whose names will be included.