The incidence of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) among Native Americans is largely unknown and many tribes lack vocabulary to describe dementia. For more than a decade, the BAI Native American Program has been working with urban and tribal health and social service professionals, family caregivers and communities to increase awareness and care of elders affected by Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Join a nationally recognized faculty to present your research projects or evidence based programs that focus on Native Americans with Alzheimer's disease/related dementia. Click here for more information.

Violence and substance abuse are widespread and interrelated problems that affect the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities. Researchers from social work and other disciplines have documented multiple connections between violence and substance use. Much of the early research focused on violence perpetration and alcohol. More recently scholars examine this relationship for a greater variety of substances (e.g. cocaine, and marijuana), wider forms of violence perpetration and victimization (e.g. intimate partner violence/dating violence, sexual assault, community violence, bullying, human trafficking), and populations (e.g. adolescents, adults, community-based samples, clinical samples). Despite growing attention to intersections among these issues, much remains to be learned. Click here for more information.