Tribal Youth Resource Center

The Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) is the current provider of OJJDP’s Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center, via the Tribal Youth Resource Center (TYRC). TYRC remains a knowledgeable training and technical assistance (TTA) provider that supports community-led solutions and fills resource gaps by engaging evidence-based practices through an Indigenous lens. The project’s goal is to provide culturally appropriate and responsive training and technical assistance to federally recognized tribes with a focus on improving outcomes for youth.  TLPI, in collaboration with the National Native Children’s Trauma Center, and other contributing partners, has an overall objective to develop and expand the range of individualized and cohort-specific technical assistance to support the enhancement of tribal efforts to prevent and reduce juvenile delinquency by developing, multiplying, and strengthening tribally driven approaches along the juvenile justice continuum. Activities to support this goal include 1) delinquency prevention and intervention initiatives; 2) interventions for court-involved youth; 3) treatment services for at-risk youth, including services for youth in detention or out-of-home placement; and the 4) development of resources for services for Missing & Runaway Native Youth (MNRY), youth who are victims of sex trafficking/human trafficking, and for LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit youth.

The Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) is the current provider of OJJDP's Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center, via the Tribal Youth Resource Center (TYRC). TYRC remains a knowledgeable training and technical assistance (TTA) provider that supports community-led solutions and fills resource gaps by engaging evidence-based practices through an Indigenous lens. The project goal is to provide culturally appropriate and responsive training and technical assistance to federally recognized tribes with a focus on improving outcomes for youth.
TLPI, in collaboration with our primary partner, the National Native Children's Trauma Center, and other contributing partners, has an overall objective to develop and expand the range of individualized and cohort-specific technical assistance to support the enhancement of tribal efforts to prevent and reduce juvenile delinquency by developing, multiplying, and strengthening tribally-driven approaches along the juvenile justice continuum. Activities to support this goal include: (1) delinquency prevention and intervention initiatives; (2) interventions for court-involved youth; (3) treatment/healing services for at-risk/high-risk youth, including services for youth in detention or out-of-home placement; and (4) development of resources for Unsheltered, Missing & Runaway Native youth and LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit youth and a focus on youth victims of sex trafficking/human trafficking, who are the most vulnerable segments of Native communities.