We are the Center for Native American Youth

Our Vision is for all Native American youth to lead full and healthy lives, to have equal access to opportunity, and to draw strength from their culture and inspire one another.

Roxy Sprowl

Roxy is a Senior at Michigan State University. She works as an Assistant in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Children’s Services Administration in the Native American Affairs Department. Roxy is seeking to learn how to transform lived experience into action, change and advocacy. At the age of five she entered the foster care system and remained in guardianship placement for 13 years with her non-native paternal grandmother.

Through her working experience she has seen the internal complications with compliance to ICWA and the Michigan Indian Family Preservation Act. She hopes to enhance her knowledge regarding compliance barriers and learn solutions that can be implemented, and branch on education skills to provide state and nationwide training regarding Indian Child Welfare.

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“There is so much shame and disbelief about suicide that it is rarely talked about; stories and life challenges are not shared. Suicide is a mental health issue, and sharing experiences with one another is important so that we all learn from each other.”

-Faith Holyan,

Navajo Nation, 2017 Champion for Change