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Life-changing Recovery Treatment Program Opens for Native American Women

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By GEORGIANA AUSAN
Buffalo’s Fire  

LINCOLN, Neb. – In partnership with Lincoln Indian Center, St. Monica’s launched a new residential treatment program specifically for Native American women and their children on Thursday, June 10, 2021.

The program, Women Are Sacred, provides a safe place for women to come and get well – to make positive changes, gain new skills and discover their strengths. The purpose of Women Are Sacred is to empower women to feel they are worth their recovery.

Mary Barry-Magsamen is the Chief Executive Officer for St. Monica’s and has been working in collaboration with leaders at Lincoln Indian Center. “When two organizations and two cultures genuinely try to do the right thing – and the best thing – it’s the best for the women who need it,” said Magsamen.

The trauma-informed residential treatment program offers 30+ hours of programming each week: individual treatment plans, evidence-based therapies, life and coping skills training, parenting education, and support services.

Staff work with women 24/7, assisting them as they encounter the challenges of recovery and parenting while living with their children in a treatment setting for up to six months.

The onsite licensed childcare program is called Honoring Our Children and serves infants and children while their mothers are in treatment.

For more information about Women Are Sacred or Honoring Our Children, visit stmonicas.com.

Women Are Sacred Program Location
Women Are Sacred Program Location in Lincoln, Nebraska. PHOTO BY GEORGIANA AUSAN

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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