Tribal Principles: Indigenous-Centered Perspectives on the Tribal Settlement Funds
Yesterday, we hosted the third in our series of fireside chats aimed at helping journalists cover the billions of dollars into opioid settlement monies coming in our communities right now.
Andrea Medley of the Center for Indigenous Health shared with us how to use the Tribal Principles, which offer culturally-relevant, Indigenous-centered guidance for tribal leaders to consider when creating their spending plans for use of the tribal opioid settlements.
We’re also including a list below of all of the links discussed in the session and a few more that will help you cover this topic and other addiction-related topics.
If you’re not a journalist, please consider sharing these resources with the journalists at your local newspaper, TV or radio station, or at your favorite digital outlet. Journalists will help us hold public officials accountable for the spending of these funds, and you can help them cover this essential topic. Forward this email to them!
We have plans already in the works for more of these fireside chats in the coming months so keep an eye out in your inbox, but in the meantime, thank you for the vital work you’re doing in your newsroom or on the ground in your community.
Helpful Links
The Tribal Principles are available on the Center for Indigenous Health's Website: https://www.tribalprinciples.cih.jhu.edu/
You can reach The Center for Indigenous Health here: https://www.tribalprinciples.cih.jhu.edu/contact/
Access all of Reporting on Addiction’s resources to help you cover the opioid lawsuit money, including the link to join our Slack community and newsletters: https://www.reportingonaddiction.org/ostrh
Tribal communities settled many of these lawsuits separately, outside of the settlements for state, county and municipal governments. Track opioid settlement funds being distributed to tribal communities here: https://www.tribalopioidsettlements.com/
For more national resources and data on opioids and overdose deaths, visit the CDC’s Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic: https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/basics/epidemic.html