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IERS provides suicide prevention briefings to Montana Legislature and Tribal Council

The Montana Safe Schools Center (MSSC) and National Native Children's Trauma Center (NNCTC) have been invited by the Montana Legislature's State-Tribal Relations Committee to provide briefings to committee members and the Executive Council of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Tribes on the issue of youth suicide prevention in Indian Country and best practices.  The Centers are also asked to summarize past and current projects underway with U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration grants.  Presenting from the two Centers which are both housed in the Institute for Educational Research and Service at UM will be Dr. John Frederikson, Coordinator of the MSSC, and Marilyn Bruguier Zimmerman, Director of the NNCTC
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