| On September 10, 2009, APA Member Dolores Subia BigFoot,
PhD, Director of the Indian Country Child Trauma Center and
Project Making Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health
Sciences Center, testified on behalf of APA before the Senate
Committee on Indian Affairs on the 7th Generation Promise:
Indian Youth Suicide Prevention Act of 2009. Dr. BigFoot's
statement highlighted the critical need for federal resources
to address the devastating problem of suicide among American
Indian and Alaska Native youth. She also asserted the need
to increase trauma services in rural and urban areas, build
the pipeline of culturally and linguistically competent psychologists
in Indian Country, and develop and support innovative resources
to improve access to health care, including telehealth.
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Dr. BigFoot's full statement
Other witnesses at the hearing included Dr. Yvette Roubideaux,
Director of the Indian Health Service, and Dr. Eric Broderick,
Acting Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration.
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