Native Youth Programs Are Building a Different Model of Mental Health Care
Growing up in Eureka, a small city in Northern California, provided Roger “Chapreges” Jones an anchor in his Yurok culture. He took public K-12 Yurok language classes and Indian Ed covered school supplies. But when his parents divorced and he moved to Redding at 13, those resources vanished — and so did his appetite. Chapreges got his first job at a Native American mental health clinic while…
Source