The Pathways Partnership Platform (P3) is an interagency cooperation and tribal partnerships for effective and innovative youth risk mitigation. The central goal of P3 is to align, leverage, and coordinate federal agencies’ resources so that they are highly responsive to Tribes who are mitigating human risks among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth. The GAIN Coordinating Center will make available products, services, training and technical assistance to Tribes including the adoption of the GAIN-SS/GAIN-Q4 (as adapted by Tribes for use in Indian Country), Community Care Coordination staff, and the use of other evidence-based educational, prevention, treatment and recovery tools and practices available at Lighthouse Institute and other contractors including A-CRA/ACC, RMS, R1 Learning, and Sun+Sky. We begin this work in three Native Communities and will expand the offerings to IHS' Youth Regional Treatment Centers and others as interest grows. This funding mechanism built an Interagency Agreement which streamlines the process by which other federal intra- and inter-agencies can bring funding to serve Native Communities (adults and adolescents) and we are actively engaging OJS' Tiwahe initiative, the Bureau of Indian Education, other IHS initiatives, SAMHSA, DOJ/BJA, ONDCP, etc.
