Warrior Down Sacramento
Warrior Down is a community re-entry support and relapse prevention group for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives who were recently released back in the Sacramento area after incarceration.
Warrior Down is a peer-to-peer support group that helps parolees secure employment, provides educational
opportunities, connect with emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual resources. The Warrior Down Program partners with community services, family services, and law enforcement agencies that provide support for Native Americans reconnecting with their communities after incarceration. Transitional housing and work release centers are also included in this program.
All individuals released from the correctional system are invited to come and participate in the Warrior Down support group. Each participant will receive individual and ongoing group support, including a personal needs assessment to help them identify areas where support is needed, and help navigating the
social service system, that so often is a barrier to successful community re-entry.
August 26, 2008 at 11:24 am
Great website, full of useful information. Thanks for including Sacramento’s Warrior Down Program. They are going strong. At the Sacramento Native American Health Center, Inc. — our featured key-note speaker for “Recovery Month” is a Warrior Down participant with an amazing story of struggle, courage and recovery.
Again, happy to see the website up.
November 21, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Hello peoples-
Dropping in to comment on the Sacramento Native American Health Center, Warrior Down Program. Since the opening on June 17, 2008 we have had over 20-participants show up and participate in the support group. With a strong core group of 10-participants showing up every Tuesday. We are going strong and continue to move forward in hopes to expand the services we provide for our relatives returning home from incarseration. I want to thank all of the Warrior Down participants, families and friends for there commitment and hard work.
Q. How is your group coming along?
Q. Woody are you coming out to Sacramento anytime soon?
November 28, 2008 at 9:27 am
Greetings Brothers and Sisters! It is good to see that the Warrior Down program is being born in other communities on Turtle Island. We continue to grow here in Great Falls, MT with the Warrior Down program. For a while it seemed that the Warrior Down program was dead but it never did die for those Brothers commited to Walking the Red Road were still working to promote the Warrior Down program. Many good things have taken place since last August 2007 when the Sacred 100 Eagle Feather Hoop came to Montana especially here in Great Falls. This past September we hosted along with other organizations a Wellbriety Month Event our 1st Annual Traditional Red Road Pow Wow. The Pow Wow was a two-day event with approximately 600 people attending the event. The Pow Wow was a non-contest gathering which caused many dancers and drum groups to forgo attending the Pow Wow. It is kinda sad that the only way dancers and drum groups will attend a Pow Wow is if there is money involved. But the times and economy seems to demand that if you want to attend a Pow Wow that there needs to be additional money available so you can attend the event. But all in all it was a good event! Since the Pow Wow the interest in the Warrior Down program here in Great Falls has drawn a new growth and interest. We are starting the Men’s and Women’s Medicine Wheel/12 Steps Circle of Recovery meetings now. We have added another Talking Circle to our Recovery Support meetings and we are diligently pursuing obtaining some Access to Recovery funds to help with our program. Also, we have Warrior Down T-shirts available for sale! The logo design was produced by two of our Brothers in the Great Falls Pre-release Center. What is so unique about the T-Shirt is not just for the Great Falls Warrior Down group but can be worn by other Warrior Down Groups. To view the logo and hopefully soon a picture of the T-shirt, you can visit our website at http://www.sacredwebrecovery .com and click the Great Falls Warrior Down link under the Warrior Down heading. If you would like to order a T-Shirt there will be a link to an order form that you can submit. Currently, we can only accept checks or money orders.
We continue to attend other organizations’ meetings promoting the Warrior Down program. There is interest from other communities in Montana of starting a Warrior Down program. In Helena, MT there is a small Warrior Down program just beginning. Missoula and Kalispell are looking at starting a Warrior Down program too. As I said earlier, it makes our hearts feel good that the Warrior Down program is growing in other communities.
One final thing, I invite those Brothers and Sisters to add/share/post their comments and events on our Warriors Council Blog at http://www.sacredwebrecovery.com/warriorscircle.
Aho my Brothers and Sisters