Region 10 Opioid SummitVancouver, Wa

August 07, 2019

Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation

Department of Preventative Services

Calricaraq Activities:Calricaraq Gathering

Qaruyun

Youth Calricaraq/Activity

Community Calricaraq

2011-2016

Calricaraq consists of 3 steps

1. Understanding our History and impact on our lives today

2. Healing in our Indigenous way

3. Reclaiming Identity

Culture Intact

Contact Illnesses & start of

Losses

Education&

Religion

Loss of Self Governance & Control

Loss of Language & Tradition

Impacts of Loss widespread

Culture Fragmented

Loss of Parenting Skills

Loss of Identity

History of Colonization

Multi generations not taught how to live well

Unhealthy life skills, unhealthy coping skillsUnhealthy Living

Coping/Strategies

Opioid Abuse

Alcohol Abuse

Domestic Violence

Suicide

Child Abuse

Unhealthy Relationships

QARUYUN

Kenka

NaklegtaqKusgurtaq

Tuvqataq

TakumcutaqPatagavkenani

Qanruyun

Ayuqucirtuun

Angniqagcaraq

Ukut Quyurmeng QARUYUTNGUUT

Umyuam Navgumalriim Iinrukai

Traditional Yup’ik Healing

Medicine for Holistic Health

Cultural

UnconditionalLove

Empathetic

Being

BeingCompassionate

BeingSympathetic

HavingPatience

NaturalLaws Of Life

How to BeHow to

HumorProvoking Joy

Care

QuyalleqGratitude

Surface Culture

Deep Culture

VisibleCulture

Dance, Food, Language, Art, Traditions

Cultural Activities

Hidden CultureWorldview, Beliefs, Values

Our Pathways to Wellbeing

Common HumanityThe way we LOVE, LAUGH, CRY and seek DIGNITY and

MEANING in our livesTraditional Cultural Care

IndigenousCalricaraq

Piciryarat

Yuuluaqauciq

Qaruyun

Mental Health Issues

Violence

Trauma

Dysfunctional Family

Substance Abuse

Strengths

Strengths

Spirituality

Positive FriendsPositive Activities

Family Support

Medical Access

Caring Adults

Mental health access

Identity

Culture

Sources of Strength

IMPACTS of H.T.

Ancestral Wisdom & Knowledge

Contemporary M.H. Services

Indigenous CulturalCare Intervenes forMental Health Challenges

Yup’ik Culture at the heart of Clinical Practice

“Qanruyutem yuk qaill’ayuqengraan Kitugcugngaa.”

Cultural Activities

• Calricaraq activities are essential to build bridges and to serve as bridges between the 2 diverse communities of practice, research and policy

Additional Information• SAMHSA National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI)• https://www.samhsa.gov/child-trauma

• ACES Connection• http://www.acesconnection.com/• Historical Trauma

• https://geriatrics.stanford.edu/ethnomed/alaskan/introduction/history.html• American Indian Literature: Resistance and Renewal• http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/engl484jj/Historical_Trauma.htm

• Fostering Resilience• http://fosteringresilience.com/about.php• Alaska Resilience initiative

• https://www.akresilience.org/traumainformed-change/• Trauma• https://www.acf.hhs.gov/trauma-toolkit/trauma-concept

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• Contact Information

• BH Preventative Services• Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation • Behavioral Health • PO Box 528, 185 Hoffman• Bethel, AK 99559• (p) 907.543.6100 (f) 907.543.4684 • www.ykhc.org