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Colville Tribes’ North Star initiative aims to prevent youth substance use using Iceland model; county invited to collaborate

5872570 · September 30, 2025
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A tribal-led North Star initiative seeks to adapt Iceland’s long-term youth-prevention model across reservation communities, build local coalitions and run a school-based survey to guide upstream prevention; commissioners expressed interest in participating and providing meeting space.

Val Vargas Thomas (title in transcript not specified) presented the North Star initiative, a tribal-led effort to adapt the Icelandic youth-prevention model to local communities. The presenter described coalition building in Omak, Nespelem, Keller and other district communities and outlined plans to conduct the Planet Youth (Iceland-model) student survey in the spring to…

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